Senior Manager / Director - Restructuring

About the role

McGrathNicol, an independent professional services firm covering Cyber, Deals, Forensic, Performance, Restructuring and Risk & Compliance, is looking for a senior leader for its Restructuring practice in Sydney. Working closely with Partners, you will engage directly with boards, management teams and financiers facing financial distress, help shape practical turnaround strategies and deliver restructures that protect and restore value.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and execute restructuring and insolvency strategies tailored to each client situation, working with Partners and clients.
• Lead and support engagement teams across multiple workstreams, with quality outcomes as a shared goal.
• Apply rigorous financial analysis and clear strategic thinking to complex problems so clients and colleagues can make informed decisions.
• Contribute to business development: build relationships, support pitches and help grow the firm's market presence.
• Act as a trusted point of contact for senior client stakeholders, including boards, lenders and investors, in partnership with the engagement Partner.
• Foster a team culture of openness, creativity and collaboration, and coach and mentor managers and junior colleagues.
• Keep up with industry trends, regulatory shifts and emerging practices and share them with the team.

Required profile

• Confident, considered communicator able to build relationships from junior team members to client boards.
• Proven experience leading and delivering complex, multi-workstream engagements.
• Comfortable in fast-moving, high-stakes environments; adaptable, resilient and calm under pressure.
• Commercially minded, curious about clients' businesses and interested in helping the firm grow.
• Principled, caring about colleagues and clients, with professionalism, discretion and judgement on sensitive matters.

What we offer

• A competitive annual bonus program.
• Training and career development, including personalised mentorship.
• 26 weeks of parental leave and additional leave options.
• Employee assistance, health and wellbeing programs, and opportunities for social and community engagement.