Financial Communications

Teneo is looking for an experienced Associate Director (AD) to join our Financial Communications team. Responsible for making a significant contribution to our reputation, profitable growth and client retention, an AD leads client accounts, supports teams to deliver to the highest standards, inspires new thinking, and takes an active role  in retaining and developing our best talent.

ADs manage and coach our Senior Consultants, Consultants and Associate Consultants and work into and learn from our Managing Directors, with the structure of each team varying based on our scope and clients’ needs.

We are looking for exceptional candidates with varied experience and wide-ranging perspectives, who are intellectually curious, creative and collaborative. They’ll be able to cut across sectors and switch seamlessly between all disciplines, from transactional expertise to reactive issues management to expert media handling.

In this team of experts everyone is joined up, hands on and plays an integral role on each client. We span industry sectors, working with the leadership of some of the most recognised publicly listed and private companies globally, helping to shape company narratives and influence how major corporate news flow lands with key capital markets audiences (investors, buy-side, sell-side analysts and financial media) to achieve strategic objectives.

We also work hand in hand with colleagues in the communications team to deliver broader corporate and creative communications for our clients.

We’re interested in meeting candidates with wide-ranging perspectives and backgrounds, and we’re open to hearing from you whether you currently work agency side, or in-house or in other related fields.

As a Associate Director you’ll be responsible for providing the highest quality of service to our clients and play a pivotal role in driving forward activity across multiple account teams, acting as a day-to-day lead on certain workstreams, and establishing a trusted advisor relationship with clients. 

Associate Directors manage and coach our Senior Consultants, Consultants and Associate Consultants and work into and learn from our Directors, Managing Directors and Senior Managing Directors.

It’s key for us that you can cut across sectors and switch seamlessly between all our disciplines, from reactive issues management to proactive storytelling. And we’d love it if, like us, you’re intellectually curious, creative, collaborative, and eager to learn.

You will be expected to take an active role in new business opportunities and work closely with colleagues to unlock new opportunities to support our clients.

Teneo is a fast-growing business with an exceptional client base, providing an opportunity to be involved in some of the most pertinent communications challenges facing businesses around the world.

Working at Teneo 

Teneo works with some of the world’s biggest brands across a wide range of sectors and issues, including energy, tech, FMCG and financial services. Our FS practice includes some of the world’s largest banks, wealth managers, fintechs, asset managers, private capital firms and insurance providers. Our clients include a significant number of the FTSE 100 and Fortune 100, as well as other global public and private corporations. We’re an ambitious, global consultancy which allows candidates unmatched opportunities to develop and work with inspiring, motivated people. Although this role is to primarily support our financial communications clients, we actively encourage our people to grow and develop their advisory skills across all our disciplines, political and regulatory, digital, creative campaigning and corporate communications, change and employee engagement, leadership coaching, sustainability, strategy and research, issues and crisis management, and restructuring and management consultancy, to solve complex business issues for our clients. 

Key Responsibilities  

As a Associate Director at Teneo, you will: 

• Leading large integrated teams to deliver strategies that have impact for our clients
• Establishing long-term senior client relationships through valued, strategic counsel
• Actively driving growth with existing clients and via new business lead generation
• Providing market insight and intelligence through media and industry networking
• Client servicing, profitability, forecasting and budgeting
• Proactively contributing to and fostering a knowledge-sharing environment with clients and colleagues
• Innovating on behalf of clients and the Financial Communications team, challenging the status quo with new thinking, new product development, and new ways of working
• Encouraging, inspiring and motivating teams through mentoring and coaching

Skills and Experience 

• Around 7-10 years’ experience in corporate reputation management and capital markets advisory with clear media, banking, consultancy or in-house background
• Proven track record in retaining clients and maintaining C-Suite relationships
• Effective media and City network and engagement capability
• Ability to anticipate client needs and shape and deliver strategic advice to senior level clients
• Excellent communications & effective presenting skills
• Proven business development experience and ability to cultivate and convert new business leads
• Well informed and knowledgeable on market trends
• Seen as a credible ‘voice’ to both client and internal stakeholders alike
• Collaborative approach, able to foster good working relationships and work well under pressure
• Strong team leader who creates high-performing and motivated teams
• Experience supporting others’ career development through mentoring and coaching
• Excellent time management and the ability to prioritise a varied workload
• Comfortable taking the lead on driving performance and revenue

What we can offer 

New joiners are supported by an induction programmes, and continuous development is a key focus of life at Teneo - learning and knowledge sharing are at the heart of this. We have an environment and culture that is focused on supporting your development and career progression. We support this with a dedicated Learning Team who provide a range of learning opportunities and personal development support. 

Our face-to-face learning is supported by some 100 modules of e-learning available on our internal knowledge management system.

Given our client base you’ll be working on career-defining work that is exciting, rewarding and one where you can make a real impact to high profile projects.

Company Benefits 

• As well as this we offer a whole host of benefits and reward including;
• Competitive salary (depending on experience)
• 28 days holiday
• Discretionary bonus
• Annual salary review
• Pension (with company contribution: 5% of annual salary)
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave (depending on length of service) and shared parental leave
• Private medical insurance
• Group Income protection
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work schemes
• Season ticket loans
• Regular social, cultural and charitable activities
• Flexible working with office laptop and phone provided

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 1,500 employees located in 40+ offices around the world.