Associate Director, Company and Personal Insolvency

The Role

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 manages a broad range of corporate and personal insolvency appointments, including liquidations, voluntary administrations, receiverships and bankruptcies. The role is responsible for leading the day-to-day management of both new and existing insolvency appointments, including strategy setting, statutory compliance, investigations, stakeholder communication, financial analysis, asset realisation and team supervision within the Australian insolvency framework.

As an Associate Director, the primary nature of work that you will get involved with will likely include:

Engagement leadership, administration and compliance

• Leading the day-to-day administration of a portfolio of corporate and personal insolvency appointments from commencement through to completion.

• Developing and implementing case strategy with appointees and junior team member and taking ownership of the efficient progression of matters.

• Ensuring physical and electronic case files are complete, accurate and maintained in accordance with firm procedures.

• Overseeing case checklists and statutory diaries, and ensuring all critical deadlines are identified, allocated and met.

• Reviewing and approving statutory lodgements with ASIC, the ATO and AFSA.

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

Reporting, stakeholder and client management

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

• Leading the preparation of reports and strategic updates to secured creditors and other key stakeholders.

• Managing external stakeholder queries and sensitive correspondence in a professional, timely and commercially appropriate manner.

• Acting as the primary day-to-day contact for directors, insolvent individuals, creditors, solicitors, agents, valuers, financiers, regulators and other external stakeholders.

• Leading meetings of creditors and other stakeholder meetings, where appropriate.

Team leadership and broader contribution

• Leading and overseeing site attendance and ongoing site operations, including trading businesses, securing assets, managing employee matters and addressing other appointment-specific requirements.

• Supervising, delegating and reviewing work performed by onshore and offshore team members, and providing timely coaching and feedback.

• Providing concise, strategic updates to Appointees and senior stakeholders on case progression, key risks, commercial decisions and deadlines.

• Ensuring best practice, firm standards and regulatory requirements are reflected in all work performed, reviewed and issued by the engagement team.

Financial, investigative and asset realisation work

• Directing investigative work streams and maximising use of technology to achieve efficiencies in high-volume reviews.

• Leading investigations into potential antecedent or voidable transactions, including unfair preferences, uncommercial transactions and insolvent trading and developing recovery strategies with Appointees and legal advisers.

• Leading asset identification, recovery and realisation processes.

• Overseeing the adjudication of creditor claims, dividend calculations and creditor distributions.

• Preparing and reviewing estimated outcome statements, cash flows and other financial analyses to support strategic and commercial decision making.

Business development and commercial management

• Managing engagement budgets, work in progress, recoverability and financial performance, and proactively addressing commercial issues.

• Developing and…