Senior Consultant, Financial Advisory

The Role

This is an excellent opportunity to join Teneo’s well established Financial Advisory team in Cardiff. You will work alongside some of the most experienced practitioners advising the management teams, lenders and shareholders of businesses that are underperforming and/or facing any financial challenges.

The Cardiff team delivers complex, high-profile advisory and formal insolvency appointments, both locally and nationally and across a range of sectors. As a Senior Consultant, you will be exposed to a variety of projects in areas such as debt advisory, accelerated M&A, insolvency, performance improvement and financial forecasting.

As a Senior Consultant, you will contribute to a range of projects including restructuring, insolvency, financial forecasting and transaction support. You will take responsibility for delivering key pieces of analysis, while continuing to develop your technical and client-facing skills.

The position encourages growth and career development, with a clear path of progression. You will develop a broad skill set across financial modelling, report writing, and stakeholder management, as well as being involved with business development activities that will build your network.

You will primarily be based in our Cardiff office, with opportunities to work at client sites and collaborate with colleagues across other locations.

Key Responsibilities

Client Service

On a day-to-day basis, you will be a key team member working on financial restructuring and insolvency engagements. With guidance, your role will include:

Lead discrete workstreams on restructuring and insolvency assignments

Produce clear, high-quality client deliverables that inform key decisions

Analyse financial performance and support the development of forecasts

Assisting the production of high-quality reports and information memorandums to support restructuring and refinance transactions.

Work directly with management teams and stakeholders to gather and challenge information

Support delivery of formal insolvency processes where required

Undertaking ad hoc assignments on insolvency appointments such as realising assets, managing suppliers, and instructing other professionals/agents.

Knowledge Acquisition

With support, you will be expected to develop a broad range of skills, including:

Building client relationship skills, sector knowledge and leadership skills to support ongoing career progression

Build technical expertise of restructuring, market awareness and Teneo’s Financial Advisory propositions

Developing a range of report writing, project management, and advisory skills

People and Leadership

You will continue to build on your client relationship, business advisory and people management skills and, as your career progresses, you will have an increasing opportunity to lead junior colleagues. Core elements of your role from day one will include:

Support leadership in creating an inclusive environment and proactively support the development of junior colleagues through coaching and feedback

Contribute to a collaborative and inclusive team culture

Share knowledge and help improve ways of working

Business Development

Business development is a critical aspect of the team’s day-to-day activities and you will be expected to pro-actively contribute in this area by:

Contribute to proposals, pitches and market research

Help identify opportunities to support existing and new clients

Build your professional network within the restructuring market

Supporting colleagues to run a key account team, including participating in, and organising, client events.

Key Skills & Experience

In addition to your ambition to learn, develop and progress, we require an individual with the following core skills:

ACA/ACCA/ICAS or equivalent qualification or experience (fully qualified)

Experience in an advisory or accounting environment

Client first outlook, with the ability to work quickly and establish effective working relationships with clients and colleagues

Strong analytical skills and confidence working with financial data

Clear written and verbal communication skills

Ability to take ownership of work and deliver to deadlines

Be a self-starter demonstrating initiative, with a strong track record of achievement

Experience of writing internal and/or client deliverables.

Experience of using standard IT packages such as Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience in restructuring, insolvency or transaction-related work

Financial modelling or forecasting experience

What can we offer you?

New joiners are supported by an induction programme. As well as this we offer a whole host of benefits and reward including;

Market-leading Salary

28 days holiday

Cash benefits allowance

Discretionary Bonus Scheme

Company pension scheme

Extensive investment in personal development & learning

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave (depending on length of service) and shared parental leave

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 45+ offices around the world.