Senior Consultant | Restructuring & Performance
On-siteShanghai, Shanghai, China
Job Summary
Define strategic targets and create sustainable success through full liquidity transparency, competitive cost structures, and robust financing for mid-market and multinational clients. Drive implementation rigorously via the Project Management Office and interim management capabilities while supporting the identification, quantification, and execution of EBITDA levers across functions. Manage 13-week cash-flow forecasting, liquidity transparency, and cash management in distressed situations, alongside scenario and sensitivity analyses for measure tracking and steering. Build and shape a growing restructuring team in Greater China, bridging Western parent companies and local stakeholders with business-fluent Mandarin and English.
Required Qualifications
- Excellent degree from a leading university or international business school
- Strong business and finance fundamentals and a high affinity for numbers
- Outstanding analytical and conceptual skills
- Strategic and entrepreneurial mindset
- Business-fluent Mandarin Chinese and English
- First relevant professional experience in restructuring, turnaround or performance-improvement projects
- Experience in consulting, a CRO/restructuring environment, with an investor (special situations/distressed) or in a corporate restructuring function
- Experience in or with the Greater China market
- Exposure to the design and/or implementation of holistic restructuring concepts across the strategic, operational and financial dimensions
- Solid command of integrated business planning (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow)
- Short-term liquidity management
- 13-week cash-flow forecasting
- Liquidity transparency
- Cash management in distressed situations
- Understanding of financial restructuring topics – capital and financing structure, refinancing, and the preparation of bank and stakeholder rounds
- First exposure to the Chinese lender and stakeholder landscape
- Hands-on experience in operational performance improvement
- Supporting the identification, quantification and implementation of EBITDA levers across functions
- Overhead/SG&A reduction
- Material and procurement cost
- Labor-cost measures
- Working-capital optimization
- Footprint/plant consolidation and make-or-buy topics
- Sensitivity to local cost structures and labor regulations
- Confident construction of robust EBITDA and liquidity bridges
- Scenario and sensitivity analyses
- Experience contributing to measure tracking and implementation steering through a PMO
- Measure definition
- Maturity/hardness gating
- Tracking impact through to the cash level
- Structured, results- and implementation-oriented mindset
- Strong communication skills
- Confidence in interacting with management, shareholders, lenders and local authorities
- Cultural fluency across Chinese and international stakeholders
- Ability to bridge Western parent companies and local operations
- Entrepreneurial drive to help build and shape a growing restructuring team in China
- Strong interest in innovative, AI-based solutions
- Ability to apply new technologies and data skills effectively across complex questions
Desired Qualifications
- MBA
- German language skills
- Exposure to cross-border restructuring, carve-outs and distressed M&A
- Familiarity with European/German restructuring frameworks (e.g. IDW S6, StaRUG)
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