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At Mazars we have a wide range of opportunities for you to gain experience in a firm that truly cares about your aspirations. Our business is an engine for rapid and consistent career progression, and we are known for giving ambitious people early responsibility and exposure.
- Are you a school leaver with a keen interest in building a career in advisory and consulting? Would you consider yourself a ‘people person' and enjoy building relationships with a diverse mix of people? This is a great opportunity to begin your career in a specialised team providing expert advice in restructuring services._
About the role
As a trainee in Corporate Restructuring, you will learn to provide high-quality investigations, draft accurate advice, prepare expert reports, models, and testimony on financial and accountancy matters. You will develop the capability to advise and help clients buy and sell businesses or raise debt / equity finance. Your involvement will include participation in pitches and proposals through to deal completion. You will have the opportunity to help businesses and their stakeholders by providing advice in respect of business underperformance, or at the early stages of distress, to help achieve the best outcome for creditors as part of an Administration or Liquidation process. These are just some examples of the interesting and varied work we will engage you in during your training with our team. Your time will usually be split between working with the team, our clients and studying for your professional exams.
During your first year and second year you will:
- Join and rotate across one the Restructuring Services departments.
- Undertake in-depth financial analysis and document reviews, working closely with managers and partners to support the preparation of reports.
- Gain experience in assisting with asset recovery, strategy implementation, stakeholder engagement and distributions to creditors.
- Prepare targeted data for report drafting and correspondence
- Assist managers and partners by preparing tables, charts, exhibits and appendices for inclusion in reports.
- Develop an understanding of a variety of financial and accounting disputes in numerous sectors.
- Produce high quality research / presentation packs for meetings with existing and prospective clients including market and deal research, valuation multiples and potential buyers / acquisition targets.
- Assist on building financial models and undertaking financial analysis.
- Take ownership of administration tasks across all aspects of an Insolvency situation
- Communicate with third party agents and intermediaries such as solicitors, property agents, insurers and employment specialists.
- Be able to obtain relevant information from targets whilst also building rapport with clients.
During your third year you will:
- Take ownership of drafting sections of a report allocated to you.
- Self-review own work, ensuring it is client ready and consistent with the expected house styles and quality.
- Aid less experienced team members.
- Attend meetings with stakeholders contributing on specific aspects of deals, such as buyers list and marketing document sections.
- Support project management by ensuring the set timetable is followed by all parties involved (including other financial/legal advisors).
- Gain experience in financial portfolio managements of cases, cashiering and risk management.
- Be a point of contact for clients and third parties throughout projects.
- Gain experience in complex negotiations and strategy implementation
- Understand reasons for financial failure and options assessments
- Prepare documents and research for business development meetings with key intermediaries.
- Support the team in its business development and marketing activities.
- Effectively balance multiple projects and responsibilities.
In your final year you will take on more responsibility in the form of your own portfolio of cases reporting directly to experienced individuals within the team. You will be expected to take responsibility for larger sections of expert reports, or for the entirety of a smaller project, ensuring completion delivery within stated deadlines. This will include actively participating in both team and client meetings and taking responsibility for the budget of the project and active participation in some marketing and business development activities.
About the team
Overview of the Advisory & Consulting service line
The Advisory & Consulting Service Line is a rapidly growing, award winning, global group of successful teams working together to present a go-to-market differentiator whilst delivering the highest quality of work for our clients. If you are successful in securing a role on our training programme you will join a team of 600+ innovative specialists across a variety of sectors including Financial Services, Industry & Services, and Public Services with consultative expertise in Risk &