Associate Director/ Director, Debt Advisory

Teneo

As an Associate Director / Director you will have the opportunity to work on a diverse range of engagements across all sectors, with responsibility for leading day-to-day deal execution, leading commercial negotiation, managing junior staff, and supporting the more senior members of the team with origination and business development initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Managing all workstreams on debt advisory engagements on a day-to-day basis
• Project managing engagements, providing support to the Senior Managing Director / Managing Director in managing external stakeholders as well as the team responsible for the delivery of the Debt Advisory mandate
• Supporting Management teams in preparing and challenging business plans
• Developing, analysing and presenting financing options
• Liaising with the Company s lawyers to understand key aspects of legal documentation and also work alongside senior deal team members to drive any documentation processes (term sheets, waivers, loan documentation etc.)
• Managing teams and creating effective delegation and development opportunities for junior members of the team
• Understanding and actively managing the Company s risk from take-on through to completion of engagements
• Actively support business development activities using your own contact network as well as supporting Senior Managing Director-led marketing and sales activities
• Identify opportunities to expand jobs as well as opportunities to provide wider Teneo services to existing clients
• Support execution of marketing initiatives aimed at specific channels to market, or events
• Actively support practice and talent development
• Provide on-job coaching and development to junior team members
• Develop junior staff outside of jobs through appraising and mentoring
• Support wider FA training initiatives

Key Skills & Experience

• Entrepreneurial and team player
• Broad financial structuring experience gained either as an advisor within a professional services company, consultancy, investment bank or as an analyst in a debt or special situations fund;
• Strong understanding of debt markets, banking, loan agreements and other relevant financial and legal documentation
• Good understanding of the financial marketplace, its trends and key players (principals and advisers)
• A developed network of relevant contacts in the market
• Very strong analytical skills, including: business analytics, business planning, cash flows, financing options
• Excellent interpersonal skills and evidence of leading teams and providing advice to clients in difficult situations
• Strong project management skills
• Ability to lead teams and develop people
• Commitment and willingness to work under pressure, sometimes long hours, always putting the client first
• Flexibility to transfer skills into complementary offerings such as Restructuring or Turnaround and Performance Improvement if market conditions change
• Ambition to learn and develop further
• Impeccable command of spoken and written English
• Fluency in French, Dutch, Spanish or Italian is a significant differentiating factor for the role