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You know those big cities that still feel like small towns? Where everyone’s friendly and helps each other out? That’s like Grant Thornton. Except here we’re all professionals and there isn’t a mayor or a general store. What we’re trying to say is that we’re a large and growing professional services firm that still feels like a community. We employ over 3000 people across Canada, and we truly care about our colleagues, our clients and the communities where we work and live. That’s what’s most important to us. We’re building a thriving organization that’s purpose driven and still want to remember what your favourite milkshake flavour is.
A career in our Recovery & Reorganization team with Grant Thornton will provide you an opportunity to:
- Work with a team of restructuring professionals including chartered insolvency and restructuring professionals, corporate finance experts, chartered business valuators, chartered professional accountants and other professional advisers who are committed to and understand entrepreneurial people and organizations
- Work collaboratively with other external service providers including lawyers, bankers, appraisers, and property managers
- Be part of a unique work culture that challenges you to further your professional development and broaden your chosen career path
- Be part of a fast-growing environment with well-respected professionals who are regionally recognized in their respective field
- Develop solutions with clients and co-workers through collaborative debate and discussion
- Be engaged with clients on a variety of local, regional and national projects
As a Senior Associate, Recovery & Reorganization your responsibilities will include:
- Assistance with the preparation of valuations of assets and business interests for a wide range of purposes, such as: sales processes, refinancing, settlement, operational restructuring, financial restructuring, etc.
- Assistance with the preparation of complex financial models for the purpose of sourcing and obtaining financing opportunities for all aspects of business operations
- Assistance in the preparation of confidential information memorandums and other transaction related documentation including buyers lists, confidentiality agreements and compiling and managing electronic data rooms
- Support and assistance with various projects including the collection and integration of research information
- Assistance with qualitative and quantitative analyses to develop and validate recommendation and offers/counter offers
- Support and assistance as part of a team assisting clients with aspects of supporting the formal and informal restructuring and liquidation processes
- Liaise with lenders, creditors, debtors, lawyers and other professionals
- Assist with identifying issues and recommending solutions
- Participation in various business development initiatives (internal and external) including research in support of pitches, proposals and new client prospects as well as attendance at various business development events
Be Grant Thornton
If you’re a bit like us, you’re driven to connect with how others are feeling and thinking. Here we walk in others shoes before taking action. Just imagine being part of a team that puts “we before me”, where flexAbility is a mindset, and where you trust your colleagues to have your back. At Grant Thornton, you’ll work with inspiring leaders who support your development, both personally and professionally. This is a place where your insatiable curiosity enables you to think, see and hear from a variety of perspectives, a place where every day is different and having the courage to grow is part of who you are. And when all this comes together, well that’s when the magic happens!
Want to learn more about who we are and how we live our purple every day? Read our colleagues’ stories at www.discoveryourpurple.ca
Think you’ve got what it takes to be a Senior Associate, Recovery & Reorganization? Like the colour purple? Great. Here’s a few more boxes we’re also hoping you can tick:
- Post-secondary education in a business related field (degree, diploma or certificate)
- Professional accounting designation is considered an asset (i.e. CPA)
- Previous accounting, corporate finance and/or banking experience
- Currently enrolled or has an interest to pursue a secondary professional designation (example: CIRP, LIT)
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to multi-task and work under pressure with various teams and a variable work load
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including the ability to work with and develop mid-level to complex financial models and the ability to analyze and manipulate large volumes of data to gain key insights.
- Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word and Outlook
- Strong online research database skills
- Strong commitment to excellence and attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- A client-focused approach to work
- Ability to generate creative solutions to abstract or undefined problems
- Proficiency and comfort with financial statement concepts and a demonstrated ability for financial analysis
- Prior exposure to corporate finance and/or project management considered an asset, but not required
- Demonstrated interest all aspects of business and the Canadian business landscape
At Grant Thornton we’re focused on making a difference in the lives of our clients, our colleagues and our communities. That’s our purpose. Or, as we like to say, living our purple.
Are you ready to Discover Your Purple?
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Grant Thornton LLP is committed to employment equity, human rights and respectful workplace principles throughout the life cycle of employment, including at the recruitment and hiring stages. We welcome applications from members of all equity deserving groups, including persons with disabilities, women, racialized and/or Indigenous applicants. Should you require accommodation in relation to the recruitment process, please notify us by emailing [email protected] and we will work with you to meet your accommodation needs.
