Associate Director of Financial Advisory

2 months ago

Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Teneo Full time

About the Role

This is an exceptional opportunity to work alongside our experienced team, supporting you to utilize and enhance your advisory and insolvency skills and experience. You will collaborate with some of the most experienced practitioners in the field, advising boards, management teams, lenders, and shareholders of companies facing financial stress.

Our team has a strong track record of leading high-profile insolvencies and complex advisory assignments. We work with a diverse range of companies, from small to medium-sized enterprises to large public limited companies.

As an Associate Director in the team, you will have the opportunity to work on a diverse range of engagements across all sectors, with significant responsibility for leading workstreams, managing junior staff, and supporting Directors and Senior Managing Directors in client-facing delivery.

About the Financial Advisory Team at Teneo

Teneo's global Financial Advisory business advises corporates, creditors, and other financial stakeholders in all situations – from well-performing to stressed. Our advice and approach are tailored to each set of circumstances and client.

We guide companies and their stakeholders through periods of uncertainty and stress, creating liquidity headroom, reducing costs, improving profitability, turning around or exiting underperforming businesses, assessing options, addressing balance sheet stress, communicating effectively with all stakeholders, and delivering certainty from uncertainty.

Our expert team brings market-leading experience in establishing and delivering contingency plans and insolvencies across multiple jurisdictions, providing credible fallback plans to protect value or helping to shape and affect a restructuring.

Key Responsibilities

  • Client service
    • Preparation of engagement letters and ensuring adherence to all compliance requirements.
    • Manage parts of the engagement, providing support to the Senior Managing Director/Director in managing external stakeholders.
    • Support management teams in preparing and challenging business plans, short-term cash flow forecasts, and turnaround/restructuring plans.
    • Provide comprehensive financial restructuring and cash management services to identify working capital and other cash flow improvements.
    • Review and stress-test integrated business plans, budgeting, and forecasting models using a fact-based, data-driven approach.
    • Develop, analyze, and present Financial Advisory options using input from other teams, tax analysis, sector, and financial modeling.
    • Liaise with the company's/lender's legal advisors to understand key aspects of legal documentation and drive any documentation processes.
    • Develop and input into insolvency strategies.
    • Deliver key aspects of insolvency assignments, including trading, sales process, asset realizations, monitoring, reporting, and liaising with the insolvency delivery team to ensure all statutory compliance is completed.
    • Apply an understanding of engagement economics, financial, and risk management.
  • Knowledge acquisition
    • Build client relationship skills, sector knowledge, and continue to develop leadership skills.
    • Continue to build technical expertise, broader business advisory, and people management skills.
    • Understand the market, topical issues, and our Financial Advisory propositions.
  • People and leadership
    • Support practice and talent development.
    • Provide on-job coaching and development to staff.
    • Develop junior staff outside of jobs through appraising and mentoring.
    • Support wider Financial Advisory training initiatives.
    • Manage diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognized for their contribution.
  • Business development
    • Start to own elements of business development, including actively supporting business development activities, building and expanding your own contact network, and supporting Director/Senior Managing Director-led marketing and sales activities.
    • Participate in existing business development programs and key client accounts.
    • Identify opportunities to expand jobs as well as opportunities to provide wider Teneo services to existing clients.
    • Take responsibility for leading marketing initiatives aimed at specific channels to market or events.
    • Take sector focus responsibilities.

Key Skills & Experience

  • Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA or equivalent), both time and exam qualified.
  • Restructuring experience gained either as an advisor within a professional services company, consultancy, or bank.
  • Understanding of financial statements and related data to assess historical financial performance and future outlook for client companies and prospects.
  • Good understanding of the restructuring marketplace, its trends, and key players (principals and advisers).
  • Very strong analytical skills, including business analytics, business planning, short-term cash flows, financing options.
  • An understanding of insolvency legislation and practice, with experience working on insolvency assignments.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills.
  • Strong project management skills, with ability to lead teams and develop people.
  • Ability to conduct business in fluent oral and written English is a pre-requisite.

What Teneo Offers

New joiners are supported by an induction program. As well as this, we offer a whole host of benefits and rewards, including:

  • Market-leading salary.
  • 25 days holiday (plus an additional 3 days holiday over Christmas and one day to celebrate DE&I).
  • Discretionary bonus scheme.
  • Cash benefits package.
  • Extensive investment in personal development & learning.
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity leave (depending on length of service) and shared parental leave.
  • Group income protection.
  • Life assurance.
  • Cycle to work schemes.
  • Regular social, cultural, and charitable activities.

About Teneo

Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future.

Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions, and organizations.

Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organizational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance, ESG, and DE&I.

The firm has more than 1,600 employees located in 40+ offices around the world.

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