Director - Restructuring & Turnaround Services
About the role
Director, Restructuring & Insolvency GlassRatner Advisory & Capital Group LLC is a leading provider of specialty professional and advisory services, including forensic accounting and litigation support, bankruptcy and restructuring, transaction support services, retained executive searches, and compliance risk, and resilience consulting. GlassRatner works with law firms, lenders, private equity sponsors, and companies of all types on complex business challenges such as pursuing a fraud investigation or corporate litigation, planning and executing a major acquisition or divestiture, or managing through a business crisis or bankruptcy. GlassRatner employs approximately 200 team members located across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
The Director, Restructuring & Insolvency, provides hands-on leadership and execution across complex restructuring, turnaround, and distressed engagements. This role operates as a primary day-to-day engagement leader, responsible for translating ambiguity into structured action, driving analyses and recommendations under pressure, and influencing stakeholders toward outcomes. The Director role requires strong independent judgment, a high tolerance for uncertainty, and a results-oriented mindset. Directors are expected to proactively lead workstreams, shape engagement strategy, drive execution quality, and serve as a trusted advisor to clients, lenders, legal counsel, and internal teams. This role is well-suited to professionals who thrive in volatile environments, take initiative without waiting for direction, and maintain execution intensity across prolonged, high-stakes engagements.
Responsibilities
- Lead day-to-day execution of restructuring, turnaround, and special situation engagements, actively involving and developing team members through structured exposure to senior-level analysis, decision-making, and stakeholder interaction
- Rapidly structure incomplete, evolving, or conflicting information into clear analyses and decision paths
- Develop and oversee cash flow forecasts, liquidity analyses, financial models, and restructuring scenarios under compressed timelines
- Identify key drivers, risks, and constraints across capital structures, operations, and stakeholder dynamics
- Apply strong independent judgment in ambiguous, high-pressure environments where precedent may be limited
- Design practical, situation-specific solutions rather than relying solely on standard restructuring playbooks
- Balance speed, creativity, and discipline in decision-making to preserve momentum and credibility
- Serve as a primary interface with client executives, lenders, creditors, and legal advisors on assigned matters, while coaching team members on effective executive-level communication, positioning, and credibility
- Effectively influence stakeholders through logic, data-driven insight, and decisiveness—without requiring consensus
- Navigate disagreement, tension, and competing interests to drive forward progress and outcomes
- Lead, coach, and develop engagement teams, setting clear priorities and performance expectations while actively building judgment, confidence, and situational problem-solving skills
- Maintain team focus, morale, and productivity during high-stress, time-sensitive situations, providing real-time feedback and guidance to accelerate learning under pressure
- Provide structure without over-engineering processes or slowing execution, using live case work as a primary coaching and skills-transfer mechanism
- Support Managing Directors & Senior Managing Directors in business development efforts, including proposal development, market intelligence, and client cultivation, using these activities as developmental opportunities to build commercial judgment in junior leaders
- Build credibility and long-term relationships that contribute to repeat engagements and referral activity
- Gradually increase origination contribution consistent with experience and tenure
- Maintain composure and decision quality during periods of high uncertainty, pressure, and rapid change
- Demonstrate initiative and ownership without reliance on constant direction or validation
- Adapt quickly as legal dynamics, financial realities, or client priorities evolve
- Sustain performance intensity across extended, demanding engagements