Personal Insolvency Administrator recruitment

In Restructuring our clients and wider stakeholders vary considerably and include corporates (from mid-market to blue-chip), lawyers, hedge funds, lenders, PE houses, and public sector organisations.

Our service offerings develop in line with market demands and include advice on: * Insolvency - both execution and advisory
- Exit planning and implementation
- Cash management - both crisis and strategic
- Lender advisory
- Corporate financial restructuring
- Operational restructuring, including turnaround, planning and implementation
- Impaired loan advisory services
- Chief restructuring officers
- Insurance solutions - insolvency services aimed exclusively at insurance companies.

Job Description:

KPMG Restructuring is widely regarded as the leading Corporate Recovery and Restructuring practice in Scotland. KPMG has recently been confirmed as one of “Britain’s Top Employers” by the CRF Institute and, for the past seven years, has featured in the top ten “Best Big Companies to Work For” as published by the Sunday Times. We offer a lively and stimulating working environment.

Due to continued growth in our personal insolvency department, an opportunity is available for two highly motivated individuals to become part of our Glasgow team, which specialises in both trust deed and sequestration appointments. We have one permanent opportunity and 51 week fixed term contract opportunity.

The Responsibilities

You will be exposed to a large number of cases within the personal insolvency department and will responsible for dealing with various aspects of administration including ensuring that cases are compliant with statutory regulation and internal procedures. You will work in a team of between 5 and 6 individuals reporting directly to your team manager.

Your primary responsibility within the department will be to:-

- Deal with multiple aspects of the administration of personal insolvency cases including the realisation of assets including property sales and policy surrenders;
- Produce written responses to correspondence received from the debtor, creditors, solicitors and other interested parties;
- Liaise with debtors and or third parties by telephone ensuring that queries are dealt with effectively;
- Follow statutory procedures and internal guidance to ensure deadlines are met and sound compliance is achieved;
- Input data on to our Insolvency Practitioner System and other internal administration systems;
- Maintain documentation via the electronic document management system in accordance with the department file structure.

In addition, you will be required to undertake administration and projects specific to personal insolvency as directed .

The Individual

Personal and technical skills required are as follows:-

- You will have good knowledge of insolvency legislation and best practice;
- You will be confident and articulate in your dealings (both written and verbal);
- You will possess good relationship and negotiating skills;
- You will be required to work well as part of a team or individually and as a result, be able to communicate and interact well with your colleagues;
- You should be IT literate with experience of using IPS, Microsoft Word and Excel.
- Candidates must have a high level of accuracy and a keen attention to detail;
- Candidates will have good commercial awareness; and
- Candidates must be able to manage multiple tasks and priorities.

Previous administration experience within a personal insolvency department (including dealing with asset realisations) is preferable but not essential.

Qualifications

Candidates may be of a graduate level.
Candidates must have at least 5 standard grades/O Grades including Maths and English.