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About the Role

This role is within Teneo's Australian restructuring and insolvency practice, specifically the Company and Personal Insolvency (CPI) Team. The team manages a wide range of corporate and personal insolvency appointments. The role involves leading the day-to-day management of insolvency appointments, including strategy, compliance, investigations, stakeholder communication, financial analysis, asset realization, and team supervision within the Australian insolvency framework.

Responsibilities

Lead the day-to-day administration of a portfolio of corporate and personal insolvency appointments from commencement to completion.
Develop and implement case strategy with appointees and junior team members, taking ownership of efficient progression.
Ensure physical and electronic case files are complete, accurate, and maintained according to firm procedures.
Oversee case checklists and statutory diaries, ensuring critical deadlines are identified, allocated, and met.
Review and approve statutory lodgements with ASIC, the ATO, and AFSA.
Ensure compliance with statutory deadlines under the Corporations Act 2001, Bankruptcy Act 1966, and other relevant legislation.
Prepare and review reports to creditors and other stakeholders, including progress reports and estimated outcome statements.
Lead the preparation of reports and strategic updates to secured creditors and other key stakeholders.
Manage external stakeholder queries and sensitive correspondence professionally, timely, and appropriately.
Act as the primary day-to-day contact for directors, insolvent individuals, creditors, solicitors, agents, valuers, financiers, regulators, and other external stakeholders.
Lead meetings of creditors and other stakeholder meetings as appropriate.
Lead and oversee site attendance and ongoing site operations, including trading businesses, securing assets, managing employee matters, and addressing appointment-specific requirements.
Supervise, delegate, and review work performed by onshore and offshore team members, providing timely coaching and feedback.
Provide concise, strategic updates to Appointees and senior stakeholders on case progression, key risks, commercial decisions, and deadlines.
Ensure best practice, firm standards, and regulatory requirements are reflected in all work performed, reviewed, and issued by the engagement team.
Direct investigative workstreams and maximize technology use for efficiencies in high-volume reviews.
Lead investigations into potential antecedent or voidable transactions, including unfair preferences, uncommercial transactions, and insolvent trading, and develop recovery strategies.
Lead asset identification, recovery, and realization processes.
Oversee the adjudication of creditor claims, dividend calculations, and creditor distributions.
Prepare and review estimated outcome statements, cash flows, and other financial analyses to support strategic and commercial decision-making.
Manage engagement budgets, work in progress, recoverability, and financial performance, proactively addressing commercial issues.
Develop and maintain relationships with lawyers, accountants, financiers, and other referral sources.
Identify opportunities for new engagements and contribute to proposals, fee submissions, and pitch documents.
Represent Teneo at industry events and contribute to thought leadership and the growth of the CPI practice.

Requirements

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.
Ability to lead a portfolio of engagements, manage competing deadlines, and allocate resources to prioritize work effectively.
Strong commercial judgment and risk awareness, including 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.

Skills

Insolvency case management systems (e.g., IPS Cloud)
Australian insolvency framework statutory requirements
Written communication
Attention to detail
Leadership
Time management
Resource allocation
Commercial judgment
Risk awareness
Financial analysis
Professional communication
Interpersonal skills
Stakeholder liaison
Supervision
Mentoring
Team development
Business development
Client relationship management
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Outlook
AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot)

Location

Australia

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

6-10 years

Education Level

Tertiary qualifications in accounting, commerce, business, finance, or commercial law
CPA or CA membership
ARITA Advanced Certification (preferred)

About the Company

Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm.
The firm partners with clients globally to achieve a better future.
Teneo provides advisory services across five business segments using its global team and expansive network.
Services include 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.
Teneo serves a significant number of Fortune 100 and FTSE 100 companies, as well as other corporations, financial institutions, and organizations.
The firm has over 1,800 employees in more than 50 offices worldwide.