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Managing Director, Restructuring Tax Advisory
teneo
Manchester3d ago
- Seniority
- Lead
About the role
<h2><strong>The Role</strong></h2>
<p>The Teneo Financial Advisory tax team continues to grow and is seeking a Managing Director to play a leading role in the continued development of its Restructuring Tax Advisory practice.</p>
<p>In this role, you will act as a senior leader within the business, advising on the tax aspects of complex restructuring, and insolvency situations. You will work closely with stakeholders, including lenders, sponsors, management teams and insolvency practitioners, to develop and implement commercially effective, tax-efficient solutions in often time-critical and challenging circumstances.</p>
<p>You will bring deep expertise in UK direct tax supported by a strong working knowledge across wider tax disciplines, with a strong track record in distressed and special situations and will originate and lead engagements, develop client relationships, and shape the strategic direction of the practice. As part of the broader Financial Advisory team, you will collaborate closely with restructuring, debt advisory, and insolvency colleagues, to deliver integrated client solutions.</p>
<h2><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></h2>
<ul>
<li>Originating, leading and executing restructuring tax engagements, with accountability for revenue generation and client relationship development.</li>
<li>Driving business development and market profile, leveraging an established network, and identifying opportunities to expand existing mandates and cross-sell wider Teneo services.</li>
<li>Leading the strategic growth of the practice, including general marketing initiatives, recruitment, and targeted and collaborative go-to-market activity.</li>
<li>Acting as a trusted adviser to clients and stakeholders, providing clear, commercially focused tax advice to tax and non-tax audiences in complex distressed situations including refinancings, debt restructurings, formal insolvencies, and contingency planning.</li>
<li>Collaborating closely with legal, financial, and restructuring advisers to identify risks and opportunities, and to develop and implement efficient solutions including supporting transaction documentation processes.</li>
<li>Engaging directly with lenders, sponsors, management teams, and other stakeholders to support senior stakeholder negotiation and decision-making.</li>
<li>Building, developing, and mentoring a high-performing team, providing leadership, coaching, and career development.</li>
<li>Taking ownership of risk management, including engagement acceptance, technical quality, and compliance through to completion.</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>Key Skills & Experience</strong></h2>
<ul>
<li>Proven track record of originating and delivering revenue within a restructuring and insolvency environment.</li>
<li>Deep expertise in UK direct tax, with significant experience advising on distressed situations, restructurings, and insolvencies and leading across multiple workstreams.</li>
<li>Demonstrable commercial understanding of debt markets, capital structures and legal frameworks, including loan documentation and restructuring mechanics.</li>
<li>Well-established network of market contacts including lawyers, lenders, sponsors and advisers.</li>
<li>Ability to operate effectively in high-pressure, time-sensitive situations, balancing technical excellence with commercial pragmatism.</li>
<li>Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex tax concepts clearly to non-specialist stakeholders.</li>
<li>Strong leadership capability with experience in, and commitment to, building, mentoring, and developing teams in a high-performance environment.</li>
<li>Highly motivated, collaborative, and aligned with Teneo’s entrepreneurial and client-focused culture.</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>The Financial Advisory Team at Teneo</strong></h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Integrating the disciplines of financial advisory, management consulting, investor relations, strategic communications, government affairs, risk analysis and talent advisory, Teneo’s global team guides companies and their stakeholders through periods of uncertainty and stress. We help address the challenges a business faces and our focus is on delivering certainty from uncertainty.</p>
<h2><strong>What can we offer you?</strong></h2>
<p>New joiners are supported by a week-long induction programme, and continuous improvement is achieved through a structured and tailored programme that suits your career development.</p>
<p>As well as this we offer a whole host of benefits and reward including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Competitive Salary</li>
<li>28 days holiday</li>
<li>Discretionary Bonus Scheme</li>
<li>Cash benefits package</li>
<li>Extensive investment in personal development & learning</li>
<li>Enhanced maternity and paternity leave (depending on length of service) and shared parental leave</li>
<li>Private medical insurance</li>
<li>Group Income protection</li>
<li>Life assurance</li>
<li>Cycle to work schemes</li>
<li>Regular social, cultural and charitable activities</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>About Teneo</strong></h2>
<p>Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The firm has more than 1,600 employees located in 40+ offices around the world.</p>
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