Manager/ Associate Director, Financial Advisory

This is an excellent opportunity to work alongside our established team who will support you to utilise and enhance your advisory and insolvency skills and experience. You will work alongside some of the most experienced practitioners in the field advising the boards, management teams, lenders and shareholders of companies which are underperforming and/or facing any financial stress. 

Our North team has recently led a number of high profile regional insolvencies (including the Black Sheep Brewery, WN VTech and TXM Plant Administrations), as well as working on complex and challenging advisory assignments  We work with a full spectrum of companies from SME to PLC.

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

Client service

Manage parts of the engagement, including managing junior staff and providing support to the Senior Managing Director/ Director in managing external stakeholders.
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.
Develop, analyse and present Financial Advisory options using input from other teams, e.g. tax analysis, sector and financial modelling.
Produce high quality deliverables within planned timescales.
Liaise with the company's / lender's legal advisors to understand key aspects of legal documentation and also drive any documentation processes (term sheets, waivers, loan documentation, insolvency sale and trading agreements etc.)
Developing and inputting into insolvency strategies.
Delivering key aspects of insolvency assignments including trading, sales process, asset realisations, monitoring, reporting and liaising with the insolvency delivery team to ensure all statutory compliance completed.
Apply an understanding of engagement economics, financial and risk management.
Develops and maintains their own 'distinctive' client relationships.

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 recognised for their contribution.

Business development

Start to own elements of business development including actively supporting business development activities, building and expending your own contact network and supporting Director/ Senior Managing Director-led marketing and sales activities.
Participate in existing business development programmes 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

Basic Qualifications

Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA or equivalent), both time and exam qualified.