Employee Advisory Consultant / Senior Consultant

The Role

This is your opportunity to join Teneo’s Employee Advisory team a specialist national team, part of the Financial Advisory business that supports on people related issues in the context of restructuring activity which includes formal insolvency appointments such as administrations.

The successful candidate will become a member of the Employee Advisory team nationally, with an active role in client-facing delivery dealing with people matters typically on formal insolvency appointments but also clients undertaking restructuring or transactional related activity outside of formal insolvency.

This role involves a wide variety of tasks and responsibilities that are crucial to ensure the effective delivery of the people related matters on our engagements.

You will gain wide exposure to a variety of clients in a number of sectors giving you the chance to rapidly develop and expand your skills with hands-on experience in a diverse and dynamic environment.

Location: London. We specify full mobility for our financial advisory roles but we make arrangements respectfully. Working from home days are available and flexible depending on clients, deadlines, and projects.

Work pattern: This is a permanent full-time opportunity, with flexible work patterns considered.

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.

Key Responsibilities

Engagement delivery support

• • Supporting the delivery of the agreed employee strategy by taking ownership of certain agreed workstreams reporting on a regular basis to the Lead Employee Advisory Manager.

Employee Data Management:

• Collect and verify employee data from company records.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date employee records and other documentation.
• Ensuring data integrity and security.
• Maintaining the statutory and task diary system on IPS, our case management software.

Claims Agreement and Processing:

• • Assist employees with any claims that they may have following their redundancy.
  • Review and submission of the relevant information to the Redundancy Payments Service to facilitate the payments to employees.
• Agreeing the various claims of the employee

Employee Communication:

• Preparing and sending employee communications.
• Setting up meetings for employee communications – including Teams invites, webinars and liaising with IT/third party provider.

• Assisting with employee queries and concerns via the help line, email inboxes and onsite attendance.

Compliance and Reporting:

• • Ensure compliance with statutory requirements and deadlines.
  • Prepare employee-related analysis for insolvency and TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings Protection of Employment) situations.
  • Manage pension-related matters, including liaison with the Pension Protection Fund and The Pension Regulator and submitting necessary forms.

Stakeholder Management:

• • Assisting with the preparation of communications to employee related stakeholders e.g MP letters, Insolvency Service.
  • Supporting with the management of key stakeholders such as Insolvency Service, JobCentre Plus, Members of Parliament, Redundancy Payments Service, Trade Unions.

Key Skills & Experience

• High attention to detail and accuracy in handling sensitive information.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to interact with employees and other stakeholders.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build and maintain relationships with peers and internal as well as external stakeholders. Have a methodical and logical mindset to problem solving.
• Has the ability and desire to work autonomously as well as part of a wider team. Efficiently managing multiple tasks and priorities.
• Ability to manage a high workload and meet critical deadlines.
• Ability to work in a challenging environment and have difficult conversations.
• Actively participates in continual personal and professional development by keeping up to date with the latest HR practices and regulations.
• Ability to adapt to changing business needs and environments.
• Proficiency in HR and insolvency software, such as IPS (Insolvency Practitioners Software).
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite, including MS Excel, MS Word.
• Familiarity with insolvency processes and an up to date understanding of UK employment legislation.
• Ability to work at a fast pace with discretion, integrity and professionalism at all times.

It would be helpful to have the following:

• A background in HR, business administration, or a related field is preferred
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in an Employee Advisory insolvency role or HR operations
• A basic understanding and experience of insolvency processes and practice is not a prerequisite but desirable
• Experience in payroll is essential and basic accounting whilst desirable it is not a necessity

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
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• Cash benefits package
• Company pension scheme
• Extensive investment in personal development & learning
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave (depending on length of service) and shared parental leave
• Group Income Protection 
• 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.

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