Associate Director, Company and Personal Insolvency

Job description

## **The Role** The role sits within the Company and Personal Insolvency (CPI) Team, a specialist sub-team within Teneo’s Australian restructuring and insolvency practice. The team manages a broad range of corporate and personal insolvency appointments, including liquidations, voluntary administrations, receiverships and bankruptcies. The role is responsible for leading the day-to-day management of both new and existing insolvency appointments, including strategy setting, statutory compliance, investigations, stakeholder communication, financial analysis, asset realisation and team supervision within the Australian insolvency framework. ## **Key Responsibilities** As an Associate Director, the primary nature of work that you will get involved with will likely include: **Engagement leadership, administration and compliance** - Leading the day-to-day administration of a portfolio of corporate and personal insolvency appointments from commencement through to completion. - Developing and implementing case strategy with appointees and junior team member and taking ownership of the efficient progression of matters. - Ensuring physical and electronic case files are complete, accurate and maintained in accordance with firm procedures. - Overseeing case checklists and statutory diaries, and ensuring all critical deadlines are identified, allocated and met. - Reviewing and approving statutory lodgements with ASIC, the ATO and AFSA. - Ensuring compliance with statutory deadlines under the Corporations Act 2001, Bankruptcy Act 1966 and other relevant legislation. **Reporting, stakeholder and client management** - Preparing and reviewing reports to creditors and other stakeholders, including progress reports and estimated outcome statements. - Leading the preparation of reports and strategic updates to secured creditors and other key stakeholders. - Managing external stakeholder queries and sensitive correspondence in a professional, timely and commercially appropriate manner. - Acting as the primary day-to-day contact for directors, insolvent individuals, creditors, solicitors, agents, valuers, financiers, regulators and other external stakeholders. - Leading meetings of creditors and other stakeholder meetings, where appropriate. **Team leadership and broader contribution** - Leading and overseeing site attendance and ongoing site operations, including trading businesses, securing assets, managing employee matters and addressing other appointment-specific requirements. - Supervising, delegating and reviewing work performed by onshore and offshore team members, and providing timely coaching and feedback. - Providing concise, strategic updates to Appointees and senior stakeholders on case progression, key risks, commercial decisions and deadlines. - Ensuring best practice, firm standards and regulatory requirements are reflected in all work performed, reviewed and issued by the engagement team. **Financial, investigative and asset realisation work** - Directing investigative workstreams and maximising use of technology to achieve efficiencies in high-volume reviews. - Leading investigations into potential antecedent or voidable transactions, including unfair preferences, uncommercial transactions and insolvent trading and developing recovery strategies with Appointees and legal advisers. - Leading asset identification, recovery and realisation processes. - Overseeing the adjudication of creditor claims, dividend calculations and creditor distributions. - Preparing and reviewing estimated outcome statements, cash flows and other financial analyses to support strategic and commercial decision making. **Business development and commercial management** - Managing engagement budgets, work in progress, recoverability and financial performance, and proactively addressing commercial issues. - Developing and maintaining relationships with lawyers, accountants, financiers and other referral sources. - Identifying opportunities for new engagements and contributing to proposals, fee submissions and pitch documents. - Representing Teneo at industry events and contributing to thought leadership and the growth of the CPI practice. ## **Key Skills & Experience** The successful candidate will ideally have: - Approximately 6 to 10 years of corporate and personal insolvency experience gained in a specialist insolvency practice or accounting firm. - Advanced experience working with insolvency case management systems, such as IPS Cloud or similar. - Demonstrated experience independently managing the lifecycle of corporate and personal insolvency appointments, including medium and complex matters. - Strong working knowledge of key statutory requirements, reporting obligations and compliance deadlines under the Australian insolvency framework. - Excellent written communication skills, with experience in preparing and reviewing complex correspondence, reports and statutory documents. - Strong attention to detail and a demonstrated ability to review and deliver accurate, high-quality work across an engagement team. - The ability to lead a portfolio of engagements, manage competing deadlines and allocate resources to prioritise work effectively. - Strong commercial judgement and risk awareness, including the confidence to make recommendations, escalate material issues and resolve issues appropriately. - Strong financial analysis skills, including the ability to interpret financial statements, cash flows, bank statements and complex transactional data. - Highly developed professional communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to independently liaise with senior clients, regulators, creditors, directors, employees, solicitors, agents and internal stakeholders. - Demonstrated experience supervising, mentoring and developing junior staff, including reviewing work and providing constructive feedback. - Experience contributing to business development, client relationship management, proposals and market-facing activities. - Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. - A strong, flexible work ethic, a practical and team-oriented approach. - Relevant tertiary qualifications in accounting, commerce, business, finance or commercial law. - Relevant professional qualifications such as CPA or CA membership. ARITA Advanced Certification, or progress towards certification, will be highly regarded. - Experience using AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot etc.) to improve productivity, analysis and workflow efficiency is desirable. ## **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 organisations. Our full range of advisory services includes strategic com­mu­ni­ca­tions, investor relations, financial trans­ac­tions and restruc­tur­ing, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, orga­ni­sa­tion­al design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance and ESG. The firm has more than 1,800 employees located in 50+ offices around the world. #LI-Hybrid