Senior Consultant Special Situations Advisory 26-27

Senior Consultant Special Situations Advisory 26-27 (H/F)

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Our team specialises in high-value, sensitive, and time-critical situations, supporting C-level leadership in environments where complexity, uncertainty, and compressed decision horizons are high. We intervene across a broad and diverse scope, working transversally on financial, accounting, and operational issues, including:

• Operational diagnostics in subsidiaries in difficult situations: degraded financial information, restricted access to key interlocutors, management or governance failures, or post-acquisition environments with limited visibility.
• Accounting reconstruction and remediation: rebuilding financial statements after a system failure, correcting material accounting errors under time pressure ahead of closing or audit deadlines.
• Financial reporting and KPI implementation: establishing reliable reporting lines between headquarters and geographically distant or politically complex subsidiaries.
• Crisis and profit warning management: assisting boards and senior management in quantifying accounting impacts, establishing short term action plans, and stabilising operations.
• Interim finance leadership: temporarily taking charge of a finance function to bridge a critical gap created by an abrupt departure, a serious dysfunction, or a post-acquisition integration challenge.
• Setting up and winding down structures: assisting clients in establishing new entities or operations in complex countries (subsidiary openings in Africa, Latin America, Asia, post-M&A take-overs), as well as managing closures, demergers, workforce reduction plans (PSE, RCC, PDV), and the financial, legal, and operational consequences of ceasing or scaling down activities.
• Complex project management (PMO): providing a structured, on-the-ground project management office where no governance framework exists and critical deadlines are at risk.

We are looking for professionals ready to step into complex, high-stakes situations with composure and rigour. Candidates will typically:

• Hold a Master’s degree from a leading business or engineering school, or an equivalent university degree, with a strong foundation in finance or accounting;
• Have completed at least three full annual cycles (“seasons”) in external financial audit or advisory within a leading firm (Big Four or equivalent), with exposure to complex clients, multi-entity engagements, and/or international assignments;
• Demonstrate strong technical expertise in finance fundamentals, financial statement analysis, and accounting standards (incl. IFRS, US GAAP, French GAAP);
• Show a strong interest in operational and international assignments, including the capacity to be deployed quickly and work effectively in unfamiliar environments;
• Be comfortable operating in crisis or high-pressure situations, with the ability to maintain strong analytical rigor with limited information;
• Demonstrate a proactive and entrepreneurial mindset, strong synthesis skills, and excellent written and verbal communication abilities;
• Be a genuine team player with excellent interpersonal skills, a developed sense of client orientation, and the ability to navigate complex stakeholder dynamics;
• Be proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, with the ability to create clear and compelling presentations, experience with data analytics tools is a plus;
• Have full professional proficiency in English (written and spoken), as well as proficiency in at least one additional language (e.g., Spanish, German, Portuguese, Mandarin, Russian, Italian, or another relevant language);
• Have at least an intermediate level of proficiency in French.

Location

You will be based in Paris, at Forvis Mazars campus in Levallois-Perret. The role involves frequent on-site assignments, often scheduled at short notice and primarily conducted overseas. Candidates should be fully prepared to spend several consecutive weeks abroad with limited advance notice.