About the Role
This role supports the administration of corporate and personal insolvency appointments, including liquidations, voluntary administrations, receiverships, bankruptcies, and restructuring matters. It provides exposure to the day-to-day management of insolvency appointments, focusing on statutory compliance, investigations, stakeholder communication, financial analysis, and asset realisation within the Australian insolvency framework.
Responsibilities
- Assist with the day-to-day administration of corporate and personal insolvency appointments.
- Support managers, directors, and appointees with case strategy and progression.
- Maintain accurate physical and electronic case files according to firm procedures.
- Update case checklists and statutory diaries.
- Prepare and review statutory lodgements with ASIC and the ATO.
- Monitor and comply with statutory deadlines under relevant legislation.
- Prepare reports to creditors and other stakeholders.
- Draft reports and updates to secured creditors.
- Respond to creditor queries and correspondence professionally.
- Liaise with directors, insolvent individuals, creditors, solicitors, agents, valuers, and other external stakeholders.
- Assist with meetings of creditors.
- Attend site and provide ongoing support for businesses under insolvency administration.
- Supervise, delegate, and review work performed by offshore staff.
- Provide regular updates to Insolvency Practitioners, managers, and senior staff on case progression and deadlines.
- Ensure best practices, firm standards, and regulatory requirements are reflected in all work.
- Conduct statutory searches and review records, bank statements, financial accounts, and supporting documentation.
- Assist with investigations into potential antecedent or voidable transactions.
- Support asset identification, recovery, and realisation processes.
- Adjudicate on creditor claims, calculate dividends, and assist with creditor distributions.
- Prepare estimated outcome statements and cashflows where required.
Requirements
- 1 to 2 years of corporate and personal insolvency experience gained in a specialist insolvency practice or accounting firm.
- Experience working with case management systems, such as IPS or similar.
- An understanding of the lifecycle of corporate and personal insolvency appointments.
- Familiarity with key statutory requirements, reporting obligations, and compliance deadlines under the Australian insolvency framework.
- Strong written communication skills, with experience drafting correspondence, reports, and statutory documents.
- Strong attention to detail and a commitment to producing accurate, high-quality work.
- The ability to manage competing deadlines and prioritise tasks across multiple engagements.
- Strong commercial and risk awareness, including the confidence to identify, escalate, and help resolve issues appropriately.
- Good financial analysis skills, including the ability to review and analyse financial statements and bank statements.
- Professional communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to deal with creditors, directors, employees, solicitors, agents, and internal stakeholders.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- A strong, flexible work ethic and a practical, team-oriented approach.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in accounting, commerce, business, finance, or commercial law.
- Relevant professional qualifications, or progress towards them, such as CPA or CA membership, ARITA Advanced Certification, or equivalent, will be highly regarded.
- Experience using AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot etc.) is desirable.
Skills
- Corporate and personal insolvency
- Case management systems (IPS or similar)
- Statutory requirements and compliance
- Written communication
- Attention to detail
- Time management and prioritization
- Commercial and risk awareness
- Financial analysis
- Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot)
Location
- Australia
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 1-2 years
- Consultant
- Senior Consultant
Education Level
- Tertiary qualifications in accounting, commerce, business, finance, or commercial law
- CPA or CA membership
- ARITA Advanced Certification
About the Company
- 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.
