Senior Consultant

About Teneo

Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm, partnering with senior leaders to navigate complex challenges and shape a better future. With more than 1,600 employees across 45+ offices worldwide, Teneo provides integrated advisory services spanning strategic communications, financial advisory, management consulting, risk, governance, ESG and organisational design.

Backed by significant investment and a global network, the New Zealand practice has clear ambitions to scale meaningfully over the coming years. The local leadership team is highly experienced, well connected, and genuinely focused on building capability, culture and long‑term careers. To enhance their service delivery capability they are after multiple new Consultants to join the business!

About The Role

This is a hands‑on Senior Consultant role with strong learning and development built in. Initially, you will be closely involved in the practical delivery of insolvency and restructuring engagements, building a deep understanding of how distressed situations are managed in real terms. The Directors are willing to grow the right person from the ground up, and to start off with the key responsibilities include:

• Managing day-to-day work across formal insolvency appointments, independent business reviews and restructuring engagements.
• Assessing companies’ financial positions, short-term cash flow, asset recoveries and creditor outcomes.
• Analysing financial records, business performance, security positions and underlying stakeholder interests to inform strategy and decision-making.
• Supporting trading administrations, receiverships, liquidations and other turnaround or recovery processes, often in time-critical situations.
• Assisting with investigations into company affairs, transactions and stakeholder positions, including preparing clear findings and recommendations.
• Developing and implementing asset realisation and recovery strategies to maximise returns for secured and unsecured creditors.
• Liaising confidently with banks, legal advisers, directors, management teams, creditors and other stakeholders throughout an engagement.
• Preparing high-quality reports, correspondence and statutory documentation to support appointments and meet legal and regulatory requirements.
• Coordinating workstreams across multiple engagements, managing competing priorities and contributing to timely delivery for clients and stakeholders.
• Supporting senior team members in identifying commercial issues, managing risks and progressing restructuring or insolvency strategies.
  
  

As capability and confidence grow, there is a clear pathway into more advisory‑focused and client‑facing work. If you are an experience insolvency specialist then you may be provided a higher degree of exposure immediately.

About You This role will suit someone with strong accounting fundamentals and a desire to move into more complex, commercial and people‑focused work.

You Will Ideally Bring

• Experience in insolvency and restructuring, or a transferable background from audit, BAS, tax or similar
• Strong analytical capability and comfort working with numbers
• A clear and concise written communication style with strong drafting and report-writing skills
• Commercial curiosity and the ability to think beyond the spreadsheet
• Maturity, empathy and strong communication skills
• A proactive mindset and willingness to learn by getting stuck in
  
  

Why Join Teneo?

Benefits

In return, you will join a high‑growth advisory business at an early stage of its New Zealand journey. Benefits include:

• Exposure to senior leaders and complex, high‑profile work
• Generous leave offering – 20 days annual leave, Christmas–New Year office closure, birthday leave, wellness day and the option to purchase extra leave.
• Flexible working – including a Work From Anywhere policy, with up to two weeks per year working remotely or overseas
• Health & wellbeing allowance, wellbeing coaching and a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced parental leave
• Life and medical insurance cover.
• Career & professional development – CA/CPA support, paid study and exam leave, professional membership reimbursement, and concrete career development opportunities
  
  

Contact

All inquiries and applications to Archway Recruitment are treated in the strictest confidence.

For a confidential discussion and to find out more about this opportunity please contact Matthew Greenwood – e‑mail matthew@archwayrecruitment.com or phone 0220487800, or Sam Dick on e‑mail sam@archwayrecruitment.com or phone 021511725

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