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Associate Consultant, Financial Advisory

Hong Kong

Associate Consultant - Financial Advisory

The Role

We are looking to recruit an Associate Consultant into our Hong Kong Financial Advisory team, specifically to support the Restructuring and Insolvency practice.  As an Associate Consultant, you will have the opportunity to work on a diverse range of challenging engagements and will support the leadership team with client service.  Our Hong Kong business is fully integrated with our Restructuring and Insolvency teams in the International Financial Centres (IFC) namely Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands and Bermuda, and therefore you will be part of the growing IFC team with exposure to cross-border engagements.

Teneo Financial Advisory

Our global Financial Advisory business advises corporates, creditors and other financial stakeholders in all situations – from well-performing to stressed. No two situations are the same, and our advice and approach is tailored to each set of circumstances and client. 

Teneo guides companies and their stakeholders through periods of uncertainty and stress to create liquidity headroom, reduce costs, improve profitability, turnaround or exit underperforming businesses, assess options, address balance sheet stress, communicate appropriately with all stakeholders, more efficiently run their businesses and, ultimately, deliver certainty from uncertainty. 

Our expert team also brings market-leading experience in establishing and delivering contingency plans and insolvencies across multiple jurisdictions, providing credible fallback plans to protect value or helping to shape and affect a restructuring.

Key Responsibilities

  • Working on restructuring and insolvency engagements on a day-to-day basis
  • Supporting a portfolio of restructuring and insolvency appointments
  • Assist with detailed financial and commercial analysis of businesses to identify key issues, challenges, opportunities and risks
  • Assisting with receivership, liquidation, valuation analysis and modeling, financial advisory mandates
  • Understanding the market, topical issues and our Restructuring propositions
  • Presenting findings clearly in client / court reports
  • Producing high quality deliverables within planned timescales
  • Supporting and contributing to client presentations and wider advisory work
  • Conducting industry and business research as required

Requirements:

  • Business proficiency in English is essential and Chinese (Cantonese and/or Mandarin) proficiency is preferred
  • Bachelor’s degree in a business or finance-related subject
  • Up to 2 years of working experience in an accounting/audit/restructuring role
  • Prior restructuring, insolvency, transaction or private markets experience gained in a professional services company is advantageous
  • ACCA/ACA/CPA qualifications or equivalent, preferred
  • Financial analysis skills with ability to analyse financial statements and extract useful information from large sets of unorganised or incomplete data
  • Possess strong skills in the Microsoft Office suite
  • Client focused, ensuring high quality service at all times
  • Excellent communication, report writing and project management skills
  • Flexibility to meet peak demands when required and prioritise workload
  • Act with discretion, integrity and professionalism at all times

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 multinational corporations, financial institutions and organisations.

Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial advisory and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organisational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance, ESG and DE&I.

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  • Your name, address and contact details including email and phone number.
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In some cases, we may need to process data to ensure that we are complying with our legal obligations. For example, we are required to check a successful applicant’s eligibility to work before employment starts. 

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If your application for employment is unsuccessful, we will keep your data 3 years after we have informed you that your application was unsuccessful. We keep your data for this period so that we can show that the recruitment process has been conducted in a fair and transparent way. We also retain your personal data so that we can notify you of future job opportunities if they arise.  At the end of this period, we will securely destroy your personal data.

If your application for employment is successful, personal data collected during the recruitment process will be transferred to your personnel file and retained during your employment. Further details on this are provided in the Employee Privacy Notice.

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Last updated: 5 December 2019

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