MERU

Senior Director, Turnaround and Restructuring

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San Francisco, CA, USA

Hybrid

200K-300K Annually

Senior level

Professional Services

The Role

Leads engagements at MERU, develops client relationships, oversees teams, manages deliverables, authors presentations, and contributes to firm activities while mentoring junior staff.

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Meet the Company:

We are MERU. A values-driven, impact-oriented team dedicated to fixing companies. We provide advisory services and data analytics support to middle-market companies ($50M - $2B in annual sales), and our clients include private equity firms, credit funds, investment banks, and law firms. We bring deep turnaround experience, a group of veteran operators, and an incentive-aligned approach to any situation. MERU was founded by professionals from Alvarez & Marsal and McKinsey and has seen rapid growth in the eight-plus years since its founding.

The MERU Way & Valuing Our Team:

We're Partners, not consultants. When you join MERU, you will help our clients solve their most pressing problems, supported by a team of people who will challenge you, support you, and inspire you.

In order to be Partners, we don't silo people into just one functional area of the business, instead advancing our team's capabilities by providing training for every service that MERU offers. Additionally, we don't just focus on technical skills but also leadership style and soft skills, so MERU team members not only know what it means to manage a client engagement but to lead a team to success. In training team members to be well-rounded individuals, we can deliver an overall higher impact to clients, allowing the ability to gain experience in diligence, turnarounds, interim management, data science, and more.

To aid this career advancement and development, MERU provides an internal Coach to each team member in order to guide and maintain their professional development plan goals. Unlike most Firms, we actually focus on the achievement of those goals for each individual team member, providing opportunities that would not usually be offered.

Finally, MERU values personal time, only traveling when necessary in order to celebrate and respect your personal life. We believe that by encouraging and mandating balance, it will lead to happier and longer-tenured team members.

When you come to MERU, you come to further your career and maintain your entrepreneurial spirit, never losing sight of the desire to provide meaningful impact, solutions, and value to clients. Learn more about our colleagues’ core characteristics and culture here: https://wearemeru.com/meru-way/

Senior Director Role Responsibilities:

Leads all aspects of engagement, including overall strategy, process and output, and is also a primary point-of-contact to senior clients
Develops strong relationships with clients (executive, senior, and mid-level personnel) and acting as a thought partner and day-today resource
Works collaboratively with MERU’s subject matter experts to identify and quantify performance improvement opportunities
Oversees multiple workstreams, helping to establish priorities, drives timely completion of deliverables, and leads problem-solving sessions
Coaches and develops junior team members on effective communication, analysis, and other relevant skills and competencies
Leads the development of complex analyses and performance improvement implementation plans
Authors presentations of final deliverables, including Board decks, Lender decks, and MERU summary of findings
Supports Partners and attends pitches, often playing an active role in client development and sourcing conversations
Supervises the development of a13-week cash flow forecast and 3-statement financial models (income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement)
Devotes significant time and/or plays a leadership role in Firm Contribution areas such as Recruiting, Professional Development, Marketing, etc.

Senior Director Role Qualifications:

8-12 years of relevant experience at a turnaround/restructuring firm, management consulting firm, or private equity firm
Bachelor’s degree from a top undergraduate business program; MBA, CFA, or CPA preferred but not required
Deep, relevant experience in turning around underperforming or distressed businesses
Deep finance/accounting background
Experience must include at least 3+ years of managing teams through projects in a role similar to titles such as Engagement Manager / Director / Project Leader
Demonstrated history of anticipating problems before they occur and flagging potential issues
Highly proficient in Microsoft Office (specifically Excel and PowerPoint)
A collaborative team player who can excel in a fast-paced, challenging work environment
Confident and efficient speaker, presenter, and business writer
Must possess a “roll up your sleeves” mentality and willingness to complete junior staff’s tasks if needed
Ability to work full time in an office and remote environment; physically able to sit/stand at a computer and work in front of a computer screen for significant portions of the workday
Ability to travel (<20-50%) based on client and business needs
Authorization to work in the United States
Commitment to living MERU’s values and core characteristics

Overview of MERU Service Offerings:

Performance Improvement:

Help companies identify and achieve their full potential by leveraging a value-focused approach to driving sustainable margin expansion impact. Services include MERU 360° Assessment, Transformation Plan Development, Chief Transformation Officer placement, Cash Cycle and Working Capital Optimization, and Implementation Performance Management.

Turnaround & Restructuring:

Partner with clients during uncertain times to help stabilize operations and rapidly triage the causes of financial distress, charting a path back to long-term sustainability. Services include Interim Management, Turnaround Plan Development and Execution, Liquidity Management, Stakeholder Negotiations, Strategic Alternatives Assessment, Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Case Management.

Transaction Services:

Partner with private equity firms across the investment lifecycle, from due diligence to portfolio value creation and exit planning. Services include Due Diligence, Pre-Close Planning, Post-Close Implementation, and Exit Planning.

Data Insights:

Work with companies at all stages of their digital transformation journey to automate reporting processes, build scalable data platforms, and leverage predictive analytics to transform data from a liability into an asset. Services include Data Discovery and Analysis, Data Prep and Integration, Self-Service Analytics, Data Visualization and Reporting, Data Science and Advanced Analytics, and Strategy Enablement.

Voluntary Inclusion:

It is MERU’s policy to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, pregnancy, marital status, family status, religion, national origin, age or disability or any other non-merit based factor in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.

Unsolicited Resumes from Third-Party Recruiters:

Please note that we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any employment agency, person, or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that MERU will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person, or entity.

Top Skills

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PowerPoint

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The Company

HQ: Atlanta, Georgia

83 Employees

Year Founded: 2017

What We Do

We are MERU. An operationally focused professional services firm with a different point of view. We are a values-driven, impact-oriented team dedicated to helping companies. We work collaboratively with management and sponsors, use subject matter experts throughout the process, and structure our fees around successful outcomes. We believe our focused and agile approach, along with our experience working in complex situations, allows us to deliver superior results for our clients. VALUE PROPOSITION Experience: Senior leaders from the world’s top professional services organizations who know how to deliver successful outcomes in highly complex situations Deep bench: 150+ specialized subject matter experts with operator backgrounds who uncover hidden value and get things done Alignment: Highly flexible performance-based fee model that is aligned with successful outcomes Operator Mindset: Deep experience serving in interim executive roles and working hand-in-hand with management teams to get things done SERVICE OFFERING Transaction Services: Operational diligence Finance function assessment (processes, systems) Reporting package development (dashboards, KPIs) Initiative identification and implementation First 100-day planning Performance Improvement: 360 Assessment - EBITDA & balance sheet potential Transformation plan development Chief Transformation Officer Cash cycle and working capital optimization Implementation performance management Turnaround and Restructuring: Liquidity & liability management Diligence strategic options Turnaround plan development Capital Advisory Stakeholder comms / negotiations Chief Restructuring Officer Contingency planning Chapter 11 administration Debt restructuring Data Insights: Data Discovery and Analysis Data Strategy and Enablement Solution Development: Data integration, Data visualization, Predictive analytics (AI/ML) CLIENT BASE Middle market ($100M-$2B Revenue)