Senior Financial Advisory Manager

5 days 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, working with a diverse range of companies from small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to public limited companies (PLCs).

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, providing a unique perspective on complex business challenges.

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.

Key Responsibilities

  • Client service: preparation of engagement letters, ensuring adherence to compliance requirements, managing parts of the engagement, and providing support to Senior Managing Directors/Directors in managing external stakeholders.
  • Supporting management teams in preparing and challenging business plans, short-term cash flow forecasts, and turnaround/restructuring plans.
  • Providing comprehensive financial restructuring and cash management services to identify working capital and other cash flow improvements.
  • Reviewing and stress-testing integrated business plans, budgeting, and forecasting models using a fact-based, data-driven approach.
  • Developing, analyzing, and presenting Financial Advisory options using input from other teams, tax analysis, sector, and financial modeling.
  • Liaising with the company's/lender's legal advisors to understand key aspects of legal documentation and driving documentation processes.
  • Developing and inputting into insolvency strategies.
  • Delivering key aspects of insolvency assignments, including trading, sales processes, asset realizations, monitoring, reporting, and liaising with the insolvency delivery team to ensure statutory compliance.
  • Applying an understanding of engagement economics, financial, and risk management.

Knowledge Acquisition

  • Building client relationship skills, sector knowledge, and continuing to develop leadership skills.
  • Continuing to build technical expertise, broader business advisory, and people management skills.
  • Understanding the market, topical issues, and our Financial Advisory propositions.

People and Leadership

  • Supporting practice and talent development.
  • Providing on-job coaching and development to staff.
  • Developing junior staff outside of jobs through appraising and mentoring.
  • Supporting wider Financial Advisory training initiatives.
  • Managing diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognized for their contribution.

Business Development

  • Starting to own elements of business development, actively supporting business development activities, building and expanding your own contact network, and supporting Director/Senior Managing Director-led marketing and sales activities.
  • Participating in existing business development programs and key client accounts.
  • Identifying opportunities to expand jobs as well as opportunities to provide wider Teneo services to existing clients.
  • Taking responsibility for leading marketing initiatives aimed at specific channels to market or events.
  • Taking 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 We Offer

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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