Administrator (Restructuring)

**We are looking for a Restructuring Case Administrator/Senior Administrator to join our team.**

**Job Purpose**:
Following a period of continued growth, we are looking to recruit a Restructuring Administrator/Senior Administrator to work within our busy Restructuring Team. The role offers an exciting opportunity to develop and establish a long-term career within our successful and growing practice.

We are flexible on either Aberdeen or Inverness as a location.

**The Restructuring Case Administrator/Senior Administrator will be responsible for (but not limited to)**:

- Asset realisations: liaising with third parties to realise assets including property, book debts, cash balances and other assets
- Banking: liaising with banks to obtain client account balances, copy bank statements, assisting with the processing of transactions and related matters and preparing Receipts & Payments accounts
- Creditors: liaising with creditors who have claims in an insolvency, including adjudicating on creditor claims and processing dividend payments
- Insolvency Record Keeping: using Turnkey’s Insolvency Practitioners’ System software, maintain creditors’ addresses, claims, employee details, including creating standard letters, forms and information from the system
- Statutory Records: assisting with the preparation of the Restructuring Team’s statutory duties, including maintaining insurance cover, collating information for VAT returns and bordereau
- Statutory reporting: assisting with the preparation of written reports to creditors and key stakeholders, including analysis of the insolvency practitioner’s time costs, disbursements and accounting records
- Telephone enquiries: assist with departmental telephone enquiries; and
- Other: other ad hoc duties to assist the functioning of the department as required.

**About You**:

- Proficient in Microsoft Office as well as a willingness to learn new software systems and processes
- Strong analytical skills and a keen attention to detail
- Previous experience in an office based administration role would be advantageous
- A leader of your work and your professional learning
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal with the ability to positively impact and influence others
- flexible in their approach and able to attend client sites as and when required

**Why JC?**

With 11 offices across Scotland and beyond, we’re one of the country’s leading firms of Chartered Accountants and Business Advisers. Working at Johnston Carmichael means working in a team of over 900 sharp minds - each of which is valued and heard. We support our people to ensure they can grow their own way through proactive learning and development.

At Johnston Carmichael we want what’s best for our clients, our people, and our communities. You’ll be joining a team that’s engaged with its local communities and committed to supporting them. Over the last decade, we’ve raised over £450,000 for charitable causes across Scotland and we’re also Gold Sponsors of the Kiltwalk. You can read more about our culture and the values that define us here.

We have a People and Culture Forum that generates ideas for positive change and has several subgroups including LGBTQIA+ and Gender Equality which seek to educate and encourage everyone in our firm to be themselves in order to do their best work.

If you value enabling leadership, quality, integrity, and a workplace that prioritises giving back as much as you put in, then Johnston Carmichael is the firm for you.

**How working for us can work for you**:
As a valued member of the Johnston Carmichael team, you’ll benefit from a number of employee benefits including but not exhaustive to; a personal pension scheme, annual leave, and life assurance, as well as your own personal training and development plan. Click here to see what’s on offer at Johnston Carmichael.

We know that 9-5 office hours aren’t for everyone. We support flexible working and also use a hybrid working model. One size doesn’t fit all, so let’s discuss what might work for you and our firm.