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Manager/ Associate Director, Financial Advisory

Bristol, United Kingdom

The Role

Teneo’s Financial Advisory team in Bristol is expanding and we are seeking a highly analytical and motivated Assistant Director with a strong core financial skillset.

Teneo’s Financial Advisory team helps organisations and their stakeholders navigate periods of financial uncertainty—bringing clarity to complex decisions and supporting practical routes forward.

You will work on a wide mix of restructuring advisory, contingency planning and insolvency engagements, often with senior stakeholders and time-critical decisions.

As an Associate Director, you will be trusted to lead delivery: setting direction for workstreams, coordinating stakeholders, and ensuring outputs are rigorous, clear and usable. You’ll also develop people—creating a supportive team environment where high standards and inclusion go hand-in-hand.

Key Responsibilities

Client Service

  • Take day-to-day ownership of significant workstreams and smaller engagements from scoping through to delivery-prioritising quality, pace and clarity.
  • Lead analysis and outputs including business plans, short-term cash flows and restructuring options; translating complex situations into practical recommendations and solutions.
  • Support and challenge management teams in developing business plans, cash flow forecasts and turnaround plans using fact based, data driven analysis.
  • Support in financial restructuring and lender side assignments (e.g. business plan reviews, stakeholder options analysis).
  • Prepare high quality client deliverables including contingency plans, options reports and board packs.
  • Work closely with senior colleagues to manage stakeholders across complex and sensitive situations, requiring the necessary soft skills to do so.
  • Build trusted client relationships through clear communication, constructive challenge and well-reasoned recommendations.

People and Leadership

  • Support management of junior colleagues, providing on-the job coaching, mentoring and support development through feedback and stretch opportunities.
  • Contribute to practice-wide training initiatives.
  • Foster an inclusive, supportive team culture where contributions are recognised.

Business Development

  • Proactively contribute to the pursuit of leads, development of proposals, pitch materials, and marketing initiatives bringing enthusiasm and energy to relevant sectors where you have experience or a passion.
  • Build your external network and play an active role in key client accounts and internal business development programmes. The expectation is that you will already be building a strong network of external relationships that you will be able to build out further at Teneo and will contribute to generating opportunities for the firm.
  • Help identify opportunities for expanding further Teneo services across engagements

Quality & Risk

  • Apply sound judgement and quality control to ensure deliverables are accurate, well-evidenced and aligned to scope and engagement needs.
  • Support engagement economics through effective project management and clear oversight of priorities, timelines and issues.

Key Skills & Experience

Basic Qualifications

  • Strong financial skillset in a professional services capacity, likely from financial advisory, restructuring, transaction services, banking or corporate finance role.
  • Proven ability to lead teams to deliver high-quality written outputs and client materials.
  • Proven experience in financial analysis and/or financial modelling, cash and working capital analysis and report writing.
  • Comfortable working with senior stakeholders and operating in fast‑paced, ambiguous environments.
  • Excellent project management skills with an ability to manage multiple workstreams concurrently.
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills (written and verbal).
  • High proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Ability and willingness to work hands-o‑on with clients, including time spent on site as required.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Prior experience in restructuring advisory role.
  • Evidence of business development capability including demonstrable professional and corporate network and/or key account management.
  • Knowledge of insolvency legislation/practice (helpful, not required).

What can we offer you?

New joiners are supported by an induction programme.  As well as this we offer a whole host of benefits and reward including;

  • Market-leading Salary
  • 28 days holiday
  • Cash benefits allowance
  • Discretionary Bonus Scheme
  • Company pension scheme
  • Extensive investment in personal development & learning
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity leave (depending on length of service) and shared parental leave
  • Life assurance
  • Cycle to work schemes
  • Regular social, cultural and charitable activities

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 1,600 employees located in 45+ offices around the world.

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