Senior Consultant, European Capital Advisory

The Role

The European Capital Advisory team is expanding and requires a Senior Consultant based in our London office. Senior Consultants will have the opportunity to apply financial analysis skills, commercial awareness and professional expertise to stressed and distressed situations. This role offers a unique opportunity for a Senior Consultant to work on large (multi-billion pound), complex refinancing and restructuring transactions that provide exposure to a wide variety of investment banking style financial advisory services. The European Capital Advisory team is a small group of professionals, led by Raj Apte, dedicated to covering Continental Europe. The role will provide the Senior Consultant with significant client-facing exposure, in an excellent team learning environment.

The Financial Advisory Team at Teneo

Teneo’s global Financial Advisory business advises corporates, creditors and other financial stakeholders in situations of financial stress and distress. No two situations are the same. Our advice and approach is tailored to each situation and each client. At Teneo, we believe such occurrences present new opportunities for our clients. Opportunities to restore value, raise new capital, pivot in a new direction and ultimately, establish certainty amidst chaos. Teneo partners with clients to find viable opportunities that will protect and enhance value and help them to build strategies that will most benefit their business and/or investment goals.

Integrating the disciplines of financial advisory, management consulting, investor relations, strategic communications, government affairs, risk analysis and talent advisory, Teneo’s global Financial Advisory team guides companies and their stakeholders through periods of uncertainty and stress. We help address the challenges a business faces, whether that is targeted performance improvement to Financial Advisory, or delivering a route to recover value, our focus is delivering certainty from uncertainty.

The European Capital Advisory team advises debtors and creditors facing financial challenges and has significant experience in numerous high profile financial restructuring transactions across Europe. Following a very successful period, the team is planning to grow further.

Key Skills & Experience

• Prepare, analyse and evaluate historical and project financial performance
• Prepare or review financial models
• Display a high level of commercial acumen and an awareness of the key drivers of corporate failure or underperformance
• Coordinate and perform financial due diligence
• Experienced in presenting findings clearly in reports and other deliverables to clients
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills with a focus on accuracy and attention to detail
• Understanding of basic corporate finance principles, including different valuation theories, methodologies and applications
• Ability to read and comprehend financial and legal documentation
• Assist in the planning and execution of business development activities
• Build relationships and maintain direct contact with clients and prospective clients and professional advisors
• Highly proficient in MS Excel modelling skills (in particular integrated financial models) and MS PowerPoint presentation preparations skills
• Bachelor/master’s degree
• Acting with discretion, integrity and professionalism at all times and being a key source of support for more senior individuals
• Demonstrating strong interpersonal skills across all levels of people
• Being seen as a cooperative team player willing to resolve issues for the good of all
• Proactively taking on the challenge of unfamiliar tasks and being calm under pressure
• Positive outlook, seen as committed and enthusiastic, and shows initiative and adopts a proactive approach
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (additional European language skills. e.g. German is a plus)

What can we offer you?

New joiners are supported by a week-long induction programme, and continuous improvement is achieved through a structured and tailored programme that suits your career development.

As well as this we offer a whole host of benefits and reward including;

• Competitive Salary
• 28 days holiday
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Cash benefits allowance
• Extensive investment in personal development & learning
• 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
• Regular social, cultural and charitable activities
• Potential opportunities to travel within Europe to cover client needs

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 40+ offices around the world.