Financial Communications, Senior Consultant

Teneo is looking for a talented and driven Senior Consultant with a passion for business and financial communications to join our team focused primarily on clients in the financial services sector with scope for work in other teams across our integrated offering.

Teneo is an integrated communications consultancy, providing strategic counsel to CEOs, the broader management team and communications and IR professionals. This role is primarily to support Teneo’s financial communications clients, joining a thriving team helping to shape company narratives and influence how major corporate news flow lands with key capital markets audiences to achieve strategic objectives. Our work is wide-ranging and includes equity story development, financial calendar communications, executive profiling, IPOs, restructurings and M&A transactions, crisis management, media relations and ESG, stewardship and governance issues.

We also work hand in hand with colleagues in the communications team to deliver broader corporate and creative communications for our clients.

We’re interested in meeting candidates with wide-ranging perspectives and backgrounds, and we’re open to hearing from you whether you currently work agency side, or in-house or in other related fields.

As a Senior Consultant you’ll be responsible for providing the highest quality of service to our clients and play a pivotal role in driving forward activity across multiple account teams, acting as a day-to-day lead on certain workstreams, and establishing a trusted advisor relationship with clients. 

Senior Consultants manage and coach our Consultants and Associate Consultants and work into and learn from our Directors, Managing Directors and Senior Managing Directors.

It’s key for us that you can cut across sectors and switch seamlessly between all our disciplines, from reactive issues management to proactive storytelling. And we’d love it if, like us, you’re intellectually curious, creative, collaborative, and eager to learn.

You will be expected to take an active role in new business opportunities and work closely with colleagues to unlock new opportunities to support our clients.

Teneo is a fast-growing business with an exceptional client base, providing an opportunity to be involved in some of the most pertinent communications challenges facing businesses around the world.

Working at Teneo 

Teneo works with some of the world’s biggest brands across a wide range of sectors and issues, including energy, tech, FMCG and financial services. Our FS practice includes some of the world’s largest banks, wealth managers, fintechs, asset managers, private capital firms and insurance providers. Our clients include a significant number of the FTSE 100 and Fortune 100, as well as other global public and private corporations. We’re an ambitious, global consultancy which allows candidates unmatched opportunities to develop and work with inspiring, motivated people. Although this role is to primarily support our financial communications clients, we actively encourage our people to grow and develop their advisory skills across all our disciplines, political and regulatory, digital, creative campaigning and corporate communications, change and employee engagement, leadership coaching, sustainability, strategy and research, issues and crisis management, and restructuring and management consultancy, to solve complex business issues for our clients. 

Key Responsibilities  

As a Senior Consultant at Teneo, you will: 

• Provide day-to-day client team direction and management
• Establish strong client relationships and deliver strategic advice
• Provide in-depth knowledge of client’s business and industries and share this widely
• Keep well informed and use a broad range of sources to build opinion and ideas
• Contribute to new business lead development and pitches
• Act as a proactive coach and mentor to junior team members
• Play an active role in introducing clients to Teneo’s range of services

Skills and Experience 

• Around 5 years’ experience in a similar environment within a financial communications agency, or in roles related to public relations/investor relations, the capital markets, financial analysis, management consulting or the media
• Experience of being responsible for day-to-day client management and maintaining effective flow of information to Directors, Managing Directors and Senior Managing Directors
• Offering client counsel at the appropriate level, based on in-depth insight of client’s business and sector
• Deep knowledge of wider corporate reputational and market issues
• Working knowledge of financial reporting and M&A transactions, and good head for numbers
• Strong ability to grasp clients’ business objectives and relevant wider industry dynamics to enable drafting of messaging and communications materials for financial calendar
• Accomplished media relations skills
• Exceptional written and verbal communications skills
• Time management and the ability to prioritise a varied workload
• A positive, flexible and ambitious team player

What we can offer 

New joiners are supported by an induction programmes, and continuous development is a key focus of life at Teneo - learning and knowledge sharing are at the heart of this. We have an environment and culture that is focused on supporting your development and career progression. We support this with a dedicated Learning Team who provide a range of learning opportunities and personal development support. 

Our face-to-face learning is supported by some 100 modules of e-learning available on our internal knowledge management system.

Given our client base you’ll be working on career-defining work that is exciting, rewarding and one where you can make a real impact to high profile projects.

Company Benefits 

• As well as this we offer a whole host of benefits and reward including;
• Competitive salary (depending on experience)
• 28 days holiday
• Discretionary bonus
• Annual salary review
• Pension (with company contribution: 5% of annual salary)
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave (depending on length of service) and shared parental leave
• Private medical insurance
• Group Income protection
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work schemes
• Season ticket loans
• Regular social, cultural and charitable activities
• Flexible working with office laptop and phone provided

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 1,500 employees located in 40+ offices around the world.