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

About this role

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.