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Working at EY UK

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    400000
  • Gender diversity (m:f)
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Join EY-Parthenon in London as a Director – Lead Advisory & Restructuring, Financial Services. In this senior permanent role, you will lead complex debt advisory and financing processes for financial services clients, advising boards and management teams on capital structure and funding strategy.

Requirements

  • 8-10 years of relevant experience in debt advisory, corporate finance, or a Big Four lead advisory or restructuring practice.
  • Strong track record of leading debt raising or refinancing processes and delivering complex transactions to completion.
  • Deep knowledge of financial services business models, credit dynamics, and structured or asset-backed funding solutions.
  • Excellent financial analysis and modelling skills with strong commercial judgement.
  • No specific degree requirement stated in the posting.

Skills & Responsibilities

  • Debt Advisory & Raising: Lead debt advisory and debt raising assignments from strategic assessment through execution, including senior, subordinated, and asset-backed facilities.
  • Financial Modelling & Analysis: Lead and review complex financial models, lender and investor materials, information memoranda, and board papers.
  • Client & Stakeholder Management: Own senior day-to-day client relationships, act as a trusted adviser to boards and management, and direct engagement with capital providers.
  • Business Development & Leadership: Lead pitches, convert opportunities, deepen lender and investor relationships, and coach the team.
  • Potential transition routes: People from corporate finance boutiques, debt advisory firms, or other Big Four restructuring practices may bring strong transactional and financial modelling skills, alongside meeting the required 8-10 years of relevant industry experience.

Job description

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

Director – Lead Advisory & Restructuring, Financial Services- EY-Parthenon, London

At EY, we’re all in to shape your future with confidence.

We’ll help you succeed in a globally connected powerhouse of diverse teams and take your career wherever you want it to go.​

Join EY and help to build a better working world.

The opportunity

The team combines lead advisory and restructuring capability to help financial services clients make and execute critical strategic, financing and transaction decisions. Our approach brings together sector knowledge, independent advice, rigorous analysis and hands-on execution.

We are seeking a versatile lead advisory professional to join our Financial Services Lead Advisory and Restructuring team. The role combines broad corporate finance capability with a clear focus on debt advisory and debt raising for banks, specialist lenders and other financial services companies. The successful candidate will advise clients across the full financing lifecycle and support wider lead advisory and restructuring assignments where relevant.

You will lead complex financing processes, provide senior judgement on funding and transaction strategy, and act as a trusted adviser to boards, shareholders and management teams. You will lead pitches, convert opportunities, deepen relationships with lenders and investors, and develop the team's market profile. Independent origination is not a requirement, but strong commercial awareness and an active contribution to business development are expected.

Client and Financing Focus

  • Banks, including challenger and specialist banks; specialist and non-bank lenders; and other financial services companies.
  • Senior and subordinated debt; asset-backed and warehouse facilities; securitisation and forward-flow arrangements; private credit; and refinancing and recapitalisations.

Your key responsibilities

  • Lead debt advisory and debt raising assignments from strategic assessment through execution and closing.
  • Advise on debt capacity, funding strategy, capital structure, refinancing options and alternative financing solutions.
  • Shape transaction strategy and workplans, identifying commercial, financial, regulatory and execution issues early.
  • Lead and review financial models, lender and investor materials, information memoranda, presentations and board papers.
  • Direct engagement with banks, private credit funds, institutional investors and other capital providers, including competitive processes.
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EY UK

Director - Lead Advisory & Restructuring, Financial Services- EY-Parthenon, London

London
  • Lead evaluation and negotiation of financing proposals and term sheets through documentation and closing.
  • Own senior day-to-day client relationships and communicate clear, practical recommendations.
  • Lead pitches and convert opportunities into mandates in collaboration with partners and the wider firm.
  • Develop lender, investor and adviser relationships; coach the team; and contribute to market insight and proposition development.
  • Support wider lead advisory and restructuring assignments, including M&A-related financing and special situations.
  • Skills and attributes for success

    • 8-10 years of relevant experience, primarily in a debt advisory or corporate finance boutique, or a Big Four lead advisory or restructuring practice.
    • A strong record of leading debt raising or refinancing processes and delivering complex transactions to completion.
    • Broad lead advisory capability and strong knowledge of financial services business models and credit dynamics.
    • Practical experience across several relevant products, including structured and asset-backed funding solutions.
    • Excellent financial analysis and modelling skills, with the ability to translate analysis into clear advice.
    • Credibility with board and senior management stakeholders and confidence engaging capital providers and advisers.
    • Strong commercial judgement, pitch leadership, opportunity conversion and team development capability.
    • Clear communication, collaborative leadership and consistently high standards of quality and integrity.

    Ideally, you’ll also have

    • Financial or operational restructuring, stressed financing or special situations.
    • Bank balance sheet, capital, liquidity or regulatory considerations relevant to financing strategy.
    • M&A execution, acquisition financing, strategic options analysis or sector-focused proposition development.

    What we offer you

    We will fuel your ambition and potential with future-focused skills development that equips you with state-of-the-art methodologies and technology-enabled solutions. With more than 25,000 people in 150 countries, you will join an inclusive and empowering culture that values your uniqueness, prioritizes your wellbeing, and immerses you in the diverse thinking and cross-cultural experiences necessary to help deliver impact to clients across the globe and to help build a better working world. Learn more about careers at EY-Parthenon.

    Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

    To help create the best experience during the recruitment process, please describe any disability-related adjustments or accommodations you may need.

    EY | Building a better working world

    EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

    Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

    EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

    EY | Building a better working world

    EY is building a better working world by creating new value for clients, people, society and the planet, while building trust in capital markets.

    Enabled by data, AI and advanced technology, EY teams help clients shape the future with confidence and develop answers for the most pressing issues of today and tomorrow.

    EY teams work across a full spectrum of services in assurance, consulting, tax, strategy and transactions. Fueled by sector insights, a globally connected, multi-disciplinary network and diverse ecosystem partners, EY teams can provide services in more than 150 countries and territories.

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