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About the Role

This role is responsible for leading the day-to-day management of new and existing insolvency appointments within Teneo’s Australian restructuring and insolvency practice. The role involves strategy setting, statutory compliance, investigations, stakeholder communication, financial analysis, asset realisation, and team supervision within the Australian insolvency framework.

Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day administration of a portfolio of corporate and personal insolvency appointments.
• Develop and implement case strategy with appointees and junior team members.
• Ensure physical and electronic case files are complete, accurate, and maintained according to firm procedures.
• Oversee case checklists and statutory diaries, ensuring all critical deadlines are met.
• Review and approve statutory lodgements with ASIC, the ATO, and AFSA.
• Ensure compliance with statutory deadlines under relevant Australian legislation.
• Prepare and review reports to creditors and other stakeholders.
• Lead the preparation of reports and strategic updates to secured creditors and key stakeholders.
• Manage external stakeholder queries and sensitive correspondence professionally.
• Act as the primary day-to-day contact for directors, creditors, solicitors, agents, and other external stakeholders.
• Lead meetings of creditors and other stakeholder meetings.
• Lead and oversee site attendance and ongoing site operations, including trading businesses.
• Supervise, delegate, and review work performed by onshore and offshore team members.
• Provide coaching and feedback to junior staff.
• Provide concise, strategic updates to Appointees and senior stakeholders on case progression and risks.
• Ensure best practices, firm standards, and regulatory requirements are reflected in all work.
• Direct investigative workstreams and maximize technology use for efficiency.
• Lead investigations into potential antecedent or voidable transactions and develop recovery strategies.
• Lead asset identification, recovery, and realisation processes.
• Oversee the adjudication of creditor claims, dividend calculations, and distributions.
• Prepare and review estimated outcome statements, cash flows, and financial analyses.
• Manage engagement budgets, work in progress, and financial performance.
• Develop and maintain relationships with referral sources.
• Identify opportunities for new engagements and contribute to proposals.
• Represent Teneo at industry events and contribute to thought leadership.

Requirements

• Approximately 5 plus 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.
• Ability to lead a portfolio of engagements, manage competing deadlines, and allocate resources effectively.
• Strong commercial judgment and risk awareness.
• Confidence to make recommendations, escalate material issues, and resolve issues appropriately.
• Strong financial analysis skills, including the ability to interpret financial statements, cash flows, and complex transactional data.
• Highly developed professional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to independently liaise with senior clients, regulators, creditors, directors, employees, solicitors, agents, and internal stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience supervising, mentoring, and developing junior staff.
• 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.
• Experience using AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot etc.) to improve productivity, analysis and workflow efficiency is desirable.

Skills

• Insolvency case management systems
• Statutory requirements
• Reporting obligations
• Compliance deadlines
• Written communication
• Attention to detail
• Work prioritization
• Commercial judgment
• Risk awareness
• Financial analysis
• Professional communication
• Interpersonal skills
• Client liaison
• Stakeholder management
• Supervision
• Mentoring
• Team development
• Business development
• Client relationship management
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Microsoft Outlook
• AI tools

Location

• Australia

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Manager
• 5+ years

Education Level

• 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.

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 organisations.
• 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 1,800 employees located in 50+ offices around the world.