A&C - Corporate Restructuring School Leaver Apprentice - 1 September 2025 - Birmingham

Service line:
Advisory & Consulting
Business unit:
Crisis & Disputes
Office:
Birmingham

A&C - Corporate Restructuring School Leaver Apprentice - 1 September 2025 - Birmingham (4527)

Forvis Mazars : who are we?

Forvis Mazars LLP is the UK firm of Forvis Mazars Group. In the UK we have over 3,300 employees across 14 locations, delivering an outstanding client experience. Forvis Mazars is an engine for rapid and consistent career progression, offering career paths that help you pursue your interests, match your changing needs, and explore your true potential. We work with diverse, prestigious clients across a range of sectors and geographies, giving you the opportunity to constantly update and grow your skills for lifelong professional development. You can find out more about our firm here.

Advisory & Consulting at Forvis Mazars

At Forvis Mazars, our Advisory and Consulting service line is an award winning, global group of successful, entrepreneurial teams. The scope of roles across our service line is broad and varied which is great for our team and clients. The diversity of our service offering enables us to make the time we spend with our clients count by helping them take meaningful, key decisions with confidence and meet their goals.

In Advisory & Consulting, collaboration is at the core of all we do. We have over 700 experts across our teams who operate as subject matter experts across our 7 business units: Crisis and Disputes, Deals and Financing, Financial Services Consulting, Management Consulting, Infrastructure Energy, Sustainability Services and Digital and Risk Insurance, with the aim of adding value to clients by finding solutions to a range of financial issues as one collaborative team.

Join a team that prioritises quality and trust. Our team is commercial, pragmatic, and reactive to the changes in the market whilst also taking the time to ensure our approach is personal and productive.

You can find out more about Advisory and Consulting at Forvis Mazars here: Advisory & Consulting UK team

About the Restructuring and Insolvency Team

As a school leaver apprentice in the Corporate Restructuring Advisory team, you will learn about the common, industry specific, indicators of financial distress and in some cases why failure is unavoidable. You will receive training in order to provide high-quality investigations, draft accurate advice and prepare statutory and stakeholder specific reports on the financial and accountancy affairs of the companies in question. You will develop the capability to advise and help clients buy and sell businesses, both on a going concern and a breakup basis. Your involvement will include participation in pitches and proposals through to deal completion. You will have the opportunity to help businesses and their stakeholders by providing advice in respect of business underperformance, or at the varying stages of distress, to help achieve the best outcome for creditors as part of an Administration or Liquidation process. These are just some examples of the interesting and varied work you will take part in during your training with our team. Your time will usually be split between working with the team, our clients and studying for your professional exams.

Hear from one of our graduate trainees, Max:

“I've really enjoyed the combination of on the job learning and studying. There is a great network of people from dedicated learning and development teams to my people manager and buddy to support with the transition from university'

Every story is different at Forvis Mazars. Our people have amazing, personal experiences so the best way to learn about life here is to hear it first hand, click here to hear their stories.

About the role

As a school leaver apprentice here's what will await you during your four-year training contract:

During your first year and second year you will:

Join and gain experience within the Restructuring and Insolvency department.
Undertake in-depth financial analysis and document reviews, working closely with managers and partners to support the preparation of reports.
Gain experience in assisting with asset recovery, strategy implementation, stakeholder engagement and distributions to creditors.
Prepare targeted data for report drafting and correspondence
Assist managers and partners by preparing tables, charts, exhibits and appendices for inclusion in reports.
Develop an understanding of a variety of financial and accounting disputes in numerous sectors.
Produce high quality research / presentation packs for meetings with existing and prospective clients
Assist on building financial models and undertaking financial analysis.
Take ownership of administration tasks across all aspects of an Insolvency situation along with the associated follow up.
Verbal and written communication with creditors, third party agents and intermediaries such as solicitors, property agents, insurers and employment specialists.
Collect information from stakeholders and begin to assess the relevance whilst also building rapport with clients.
Assist experienced colleagues with the management of their portfolio of cases, including matters of asset realisation, utilising statutory forms and meticulously comply with statutory procedures.
Take ownership of drafting sections of a report allocated to you.

During your third and fourth years you will:

Be able to complete working drafts of reports allocated to you.
Self-review own work, ensuring it is client ready and consistent with the expected house styles and quality.
Aid less experienced team members.
Attend meetings with stakeholders contributing on specific aspects of the project, such as buyers list and marketing document sections or investigative work carried out.
Support project management by ensuring the set timetable is followed by all parties involved (including other financial/legal advisors).
Gain experience in financial portfolio managements of cases, cashiering and risk management.
Be a point of contact for clients and third parties throughout projects.
Gain experience in complex scenarios such as negotiations and strategy implementation.
Understand reasons for financial failure and options assessments
Prepare documents and research for business development meetings with key intermediaries.
Support the team in its business development and marketing activities.
Effectively balance multiple projects and responsibilities.
Study for and sit the Certificate of Proficiency in Insolvency exam which is a recognised industry qualification.

By your final year you will have your own portfolio of cases reporting directly to experienced individuals within the team. You will be expected to take responsibility for more complex elements of a project, or for the entirety of a smaller project, ensuring completion delivery within stated, statutory deadlines. This will include actively participating in both team and client meetings and taking responsibility for the budget of the project and active participation in some marketing and business development activities

You're joining us as a permanent employee, so the 4 years is only the beginning of your exceptional career journey at Forvis Mazars.

Who we're looking for

On track or have obtained A-levels, BTEC or equivalent qualifications. Strong academic performance is important; however, we understand that things don't always go to plan. Our recruitment process looks at your whole self – academic achievements as well as other experiences in which you have grown and developed. You can read about our approach to academics in our FAQs.
Deep curiosity to learn new things and is naturally inquisitive;

The ability to think critically solve problems and share knowledge with others;

A commitment to self-development and learning;

Strong sense of ownership of duties and high levels of responsibility to deliver on promises;

Always looks to try their best in all they do and always looking for ways to improve;

Enjoys meeting and engaging with new people with an underlying respect for individuals, diversity, and integrity;

Works well under pressure and have a positive ‘can-do' attitude if faced with challenging situations;

Excellent time management skills;

A willingness to travel and adhere to our flexible working environment.

Learning and development

Fully funded professional qualification for this role: Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA)/ Certificate of Proficiency in Insolvency (CPI)

Our supportive culture includes coaching, mentorship, and one-on-one guidance. In addition to funding qualifications, we provide time off to study, and a blended training approach including in person and virtual learning. You will be allocated a buddy before joining who will support you to settle into the team and navigate your first year at Forvis Mazars.

You will also receive comprehensive quality training and development to excel in your professional career; this includes development in professional excellence, client excellence, digital excellence, and technical excellence. Our goal is to support you in reaching your full potential and become a standout talent. To understand more read our FAQs.

Inclusion and diversity

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Forvis Mazars; we want to ensure everyone, whether in the recruitment process or beyond, is fully supported to be their unique self and provided with a level playing field. To read more about our approach click here.

Next steps

Roles will be closed as soon as we find the right people, so to avoid disappointment we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible. If you are an international applicant and/or require a visa please view our FAQs before applying to be aware of deadlines and important information you need to know before applying.