Senior Consultant, M&A, Financial Advisory

The Role

The M&A team is part of Capital Advisory within Teneo Financial Advisory.  We are currently looking for a Senior Consultant to join our successful and growing team.

The team provides broad M&A solutions including;

• Special Situations M&A - providing bespoke M&A solutions to clients facing challenging, complex or business critical issues where specialist situational expertise and experience is key to delivering the optimal outcome
• Non-standard M&A - delivering elegant M&A solutions in highly complex situations, including underperforming and long-held assets, complex stakeholder dynamics and sophisticated transaction structures
• Mainstream M&A – working collaboratively with clients on both the sell-side and buy-side, providing strategic advice, innovative solutions to challenges or opportunities and execution support that delivers tangible results

Since its inception in 2008, the M&A team has completed over 150 transactions across a broad spectrum of size (typically £5m to £200m), sectors and situations.  

Key Responsibilities

• Advising shareholders and senior management teams on a range of buy-side and sell-side transactions.
• Assisting with the day to day management of transactions which includes preparation of information memoranda, management presentations, valuation analysis and taking responsibility for the preparation of information and client communications.
• Industry research for both deal origination and transaction analysis.
• Contribution to marketing and business development opportunities.
• Working effectively in diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution.

Key Skills & Experience

• Strong academic background at A level / degree level.
• Qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA or equivalent), both time and exam qualified.
• Deep understanding of Corporate Finance and M&A advisory including Special Situations
• Excellent numeracy skills with keen attention to detail and the ability to absorb and interpret large amounts of data quickly.
• Strong commercial and business diagnostics acumen
• Client and team focus, with ability to work quickly and establish effective working relationships
• A good level of meeting and presentational skills.
• Logical and meticulous approach to problem solving.
• High level of project management and organisational skills.
• Ability to undertake detailed financial/commercial exploration for inclusion in client reports.
• Excellent communication and project management skills

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, identify 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.

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 40+ offices around the world.