Consultant​/Senior Consultant, Personal Insolvency

The role sits within the Company and Personal Insolvency (CPI) Team, a specialist sub-team within Teneo’s Australian restructuring and insolvency practice. The team supports the administration of a broad range of corporate and personal insolvency appointments, including liquidations, voluntary administrations, receiverships, bankruptcies and restructuring matters. The role provides exposure to the day-to-day management of both new and existing insolvency appointments, including statutory compliance, investigations, stakeholder communication, financial analysis and asset realisation within the Australian insolvency framework.

As a Consultant / Senior Consultant, the primary nature of work that you will get involved with will likely include:

Case Administration and Compliance

• Assisting with the day-to-day administration of corporate and personal insolvency appointments.

• Supporting managers, directors and appointees with case strategy and the progression of matters.

• Maintaining accurate physical and electronic case files in accordance with firm procedures.

• Updating case checklists and statutory diaries.

• Preparing and reviewing statutory lodgements with ASIC and the ATO

• Monitoring and complying with statutory deadlines under the Corporations Act 2001, Bankruptcy Act 1966 and other relevant legislation.

Reporting and Stakeholder Communication

• Preparing reports to creditors and other stakeholders, including progress reports, receipts and payments and estimated outcome statements.

• Drafting reports and updates to secured creditors, where relevant.

• Responding to creditor queries and other correspondence in a professional and timely manner.

• Liaising with directors, insolvent individuals, creditors, solicitors, agents, valuers, and other external stakeholders.

• Assisting with meetings of creditors

Broader Support and Team Contribution

• Attending site and providing ongoing site support to assist with the trading of business subject to insolvency administrations, securing assets, dealing with employee matters and other appointment-specific tasks where required

• Supervising, delegating and reviewing work performed by offshore staff

• Providing regular updates to Insolvency Practitioners, managers and senior staff on case progression and deadlines.

• Ensuring best practice, firm standards and regulatory requirements are reflected in all work performed and written correspondence

Financial, Investigative and Asset Realisation Work

• Conducting statutory searches and reviewing records, bank statements, financial accounts and supporting documentation.

• Assisting with investigations into potential antecedent or voidable transactions, including unfair preferences, uncommercial transactions and insolvent trading.

• Supporting asset identification, recovery and realisation processes.

• Adjudicating on creditor claims, calculating dividends and assisting with creditor distributions.

• Preparing estimated outcome statements and cashflows where required

The successful candidate will ideally have:

• 6 months plus of either corporate or personal insolvency experience gained in a specialist insolvency practice or accounting firm.

• Experience working with case management systems, such as IPS or similar.

• An understanding of the lifecycle of corporate and personal insolvency appointments.

• Familiarity with key statutory requirements, reporting obligations and compliance deadlines under the Australian insolvency framework.

• Strong written communication skills, with experience drafting correspondence, reports and statutory documents.

• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to producing accurate, high-quality work.

• The ability to manage competing deadlines and prioritise tasks across multiple engagements.

• Strong…