The Role

Teneo Financial Advisory are looking for a Compliance Administrator to join our growing Quality & Risk Management (QRM) team in Leeds.  

Key Responsibilities

• Coordination of QRM reporting requirements and compliance calendar – including initial requests for data etc 
• Coordination of bulk professional membership renewals 
• Coordination of annual review of policies on internal Practice Manual 
• Coordination of team newsletters to the business, including some design and edit work 
• Coordination of risk induction programme to new joiners 
• Coordination of staff CPD compliance and annual risk score compilation 
• Management of internal Practice Manual 
• First/initial review of gifts and entertainment requests. 

Key Skills & Experience

• Highly organised, confident working independently with the ability to respond to queries quickly and efficiently 
• Excellent attention to detail 
• Excellent communication skills 
• Experienced user of excel, word and powerpoint 

What can we offer you?

New joiners are supported by an induction programme, training in the tools and processes to the analyst role, with continuous improvement and development achieved through a structured and tailored programme that suits your career development..

As well as this we offer a whole host of benefits and reward including:

• Market-leading salary
• 28 days annual leave, with an option to purchase additional days
• An additional Inclusion Day leave
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Pension Plan (with additional employee contribution options)
• Extensive investment in personal development & learning
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave (dependent on length of service), with shared parental leave options
• Additional benefits and options including:
  • Private medical insurance
  • Income protection
  • Life assurance
  • Cycle to work scheme
• Regular social, cultural and charitable activities

The Financial Advisory Team at Teneo

Teneo’s global Financial Advisory business advises corporates, creditors and other financial stakeholders in situations of financial stress and distress. No two situations are the same. Our advice and approach is tailored to each situation and each client. At Teneo, we believe such occurrences present new opportunities for our clients. Opportunities to restore value, raise new capital, pivot in a new direction and ultimately, identify certainty amidst chaos. Teneo partners with clients to find viable opportunities that will protect and enhance value and help them to build strategies that will most benefit their business and/or investment goals.

Integrating the disciplines of financial advisory, management consulting, investor relations, strategic communications, government affairs, risk analysis and talent advisory, Teneo’s global team guides companies and their stakeholders through periods of uncertainty and stress. We help address the challenges a business faces and our focus is on delivering certainty from uncertainty.

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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The Role 

This is an excellent opportunity to work alongside our established team who will support you to utilise and enhance your advisory 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 Senior Consultant you will have the opportunity to use your commercial awareness and professional expertise, along with leveraging the skills and expertise of others, to deliver the best possible experience and outcomes for our clients. 

Key Responsibilities

Client Service

• Is a key team member working on financial restructuring engagements on a day-to-day basis, including managing junior staff.
• Produces high quality deliverables within planned timescales.
• Develops ‘distinctive’ client relationships.
• Innovates new approaches.
• Supports and contributes to client presentations.
• Helps to meet team specific performance targets.
• Applies understanding of financial engagement economics and engagement risk and quality management.

Knowledge Acquisition

• Builds client relationship skills, sector knowledge and continues to develop leadership skills.
• Continues to build technical expertise, broader business advisory and people management skills.
• Understands the market, topical issues and our Restructuring propositions.

People and Leadership

• Supports leadership in creating an inclusive environment.
• Proactively supports the development of colleagues by providing timely feedback and identifying development opportunities e.g. mentoring/ buddying, supervising less experienced colleagues.
• Continues to develop personal brand.

Business Development

• Starts to own elements of and proactively contribute to business development.
• Demonstrate an expanding network of external and internal peer level contacts which provide opportunities to meet and share ideas on initiatives.
• Assist in the running of a sector or marketing key account team, including participating in, and organising, marketing events.
• Assists in preparing research documents, pitches and client presentations.

Key Skills & Experience

Basic Qualifications

• Strong academic background at degree level.
• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA or equivalent), both time and exam qualified.
• Analytical with strong IT skills e.g., Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook packages.
• Demonstrates knowledge of Restructuring Services/Insolvency or strong transferrable skills gained in a client facing role within a professional services company (e.g., corporate audit).
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to support working in a high-performance team.
• Commitment and willingness to work under pressure, sometimes long hours, always putting the client at the centre.
• Ambition to learn and develop further.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct relevant experience of Restructuring Services/Insolvency gained within a professional services company or a Financial Advisory boutique.
• Flexibility to transfer skills into complementary offerings such as Debt Advisory or Performance Improvement if market conditions change.

The Financial Advisory Team at Teneo

Teneo’s global Financial Advisory business advises corporates, creditors and other financial stakeholders in situations of financial stress and distress. No two situations are the same. Our advice and approach is tailored to each situation and each client. At Teneo, we believe such occurrences present new opportunities for our clients. Opportunities to restore value, raise new capital, pivot in a new direction and ultimately, identify certainty amidst chaos. Teneo partners with clients to find viable opportunities that will protect and enhance value and help them to build strategies that will most benefit their business and/or investment goals.

Integrating the disciplines of financial advisory, management consulting, investor relations, strategic communications, government affairs, risk analysis and talent advisory, Teneo’s global Financial Advisory team guides companies and their stakeholders through periods of uncertainty and stress. We help address the challenges a business faces, whether that is targeted performance improvement to Financial Advisory, or delivering a route to recover value, our focus is delivering certainty from uncertainty.

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 40+ offices around the world.

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The Role

Location: London, Leeds, Edinburgh, Glasgow or Birmingham - Hybrid

Core senior member of our Quality & Risk Management team who will be involved in improvement in processes, procedures, regulatory compliance and driving improvement in overall quality in the delivery of insolvency services.  This will involve supporting and advising our Insolvency Delivery Team and local office engagement teams delivering complex insolvency and MVL services to our clients.  In addition to ensuring compliance with statute and regulations, the individual should be commercially minded and able to communicate with senior stakeholders and engagement teams as a peer.  The individual will be required to act as a trusted advisor to engagement teams in respect of complex technical matters. 

Key Skills & Experience 

• Hold a pass in the JIEB corporate exam paper
• Hold a professional accountancy qualification (beneficial but not essential)
• Strong technical insolvency background and experience of dealing with complex technical matters
• Demonstrable technical experience in England & Wales insolvencies
• Knowledge and experience of all corporate insolvency processes (Administration, MVLs, Insolvent Liquidations, CVAs and FCRs)
• Knowledge of RP’s and Special Administrations (beneficial but not essential)
• Excellent attention to detail
• Knowledge of GDPR and SARs (beneficial but not essential) 
• Experience of dealing with the investigation, management and resolution of complaints and claims (beneficial but not essential) 
• Highly developed interpersonal skills and ability to work as part of a high performing and collaborative team
• Ability to communicate with, advise and influence engagement and delivery teams and senior stakeholders
• Good working knowledge of the ICAEW Code of Ethics, insolvency legislation and SIPs
• Experience of supporting and assisting in internal and external quality assurance reviews  
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to respond to queries quickly and efficiently
• Experience in preparing and delivering in-house training and presentations 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, deliver and drive quality improvement by identifying and making improvements to standard templates, processes, policies and procedures
• Be a core member of the QRM senior leadership team
• Supporting the Financial Advisory CRO in the investigation, management and resolution of complaints and claims  
• Requirement to provide support and assistance in internal and external quality assurance reviews as required
• Responding to queries and provision of advice to teams verbally or in written form
• Work closely with and be interchangeable with (for holiday and illness cover) existing Insolvency QRM leadership
• Responding to complex technical queries in respect of prospective and live cases

The Financial Advisory Team at Teneo

Teneo’s global Financial Advisory business advises corporates, creditors and other financial stakeholders in situations of financial stress and distress. No two situations are the same. Our advice and approach is tailored to each situation and each client. At Teneo, we believe such occurrences present new opportunities for our clients. Opportunities to restore value, raise new capital, pivot in a new direction and ultimately, identify certainty amidst chaos. Teneo partners with clients to find viable opportunities that will protect and enhance value and help them to build strategies that will most benefit their business and/or investment goals.

Integrating the disciplines of financial advisory, management consulting, investor relations, strategic communications, government affairs, risk analysis and talent advisory, Teneo’s global Financial Advisory team guides companies and their stakeholders through periods of uncertainty and stress. We help address the challenges a business faces, whether that is targeted performance improvement to Financial Advisory, or delivering a route to recover value, our focus is delivering certainty from uncertainty.

What can we offer you?

New joiners are supported by a week-long induction programme, and continuous improvement is achieved through a structured and tailored programme that suits your career development.

As well as this we offer a whole host of benefits and reward including;

• Competitive Salary
• 28 days holiday
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Cash benefits allowance
• Pension Scheme
• 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, and ESG.

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

#LI-Hybrid