Teneo
Associate Consultant, Financial Communications -TMT
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About the Role
Teneo has a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic and energetic Associate Consultant (Account Executive level) looking to embark on a career in financial communications. An Associate Consultant in our team is responsible for providing the highest quality of research and insight to support our advisory offering to our clients.
We are looking for an exceptional candidate who is interested in learning more about how to support companies in their effective engagement with media, financial audiences, and broader stakeholders to manage risk and maximize opportunities to build their corporate reputation for the long-term. Like us, they’ll be intellectually curious, creative, collaborative, and eager to learn.
The successful candidate will be working within the TMT sector team within Teneo’s financial communications practice.
Financial Communications Consulting at Teneo
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 (CEO, Chairman, Heads of Communications and Investor Relations) of some of the largest publicly listed and private companies globally, helping to shape company narratives and influence how major corporate news flow lands with key capital markets audiences (financial media, investors, buy-side, sell-side analysts) and broader stakeholders.
Across our UK communications business, we currently represent c.20% of the FTSE 100, and our clients include companies as diverse as BHP, CVC, KPMG, Mondelez, Kingfisher, Richemont, Shell, Tesco, and Unilever. Our work is wide-ranging and includes equity story development, financial calendar communications, media engagement, executive profiling, IPOs, restructurings and M&A transactions, crisis management, and ESG, stewardship, and governance issues.
Our clients’ corporate reputation is at the heart of our offering, and we take an integrated approach to servicing client needs, drawing from the full breadth of communications. You will have the opportunity to work alongside other Teneo teams in Campaigning, Public Affairs, Strategy, and Consulting in our London office, providing a unique opportunity to expand your skills and experience across various disciplines. You’ll also get the chance to work with colleagues in our international teams from our offices around the world.
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We help our clients navigate the challenges they face, enabling them to protect and enhance their reputation, and engage constructively and productively with stakeholders to achieve their business objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Client facing, building working relationships with clients, the media, and other advisors
- Drafting communications materials (press releases, Q&A, key messages) to support results and other corporate milestones
- Dealing with the media on behalf of clients, building contact networks
- Proactively highlighting opportunities and potential areas of concern for clients
- Delivering the core requirement of support, research, and insight for the client team
- Media monitoring for clients and their competitors, using a variety of inputs and tools, to give wider context and advise on implications
- Monitoring sell-side analyst coverage, share price performance, and valuation
- Supporting new business efforts through spotting opportunities, research, and preparation of pitch materials
Essential Skills & Experience
At Associate Consultant level, we typically look for candidates who have between six months and three years’ experience and have worked in a similar environment, potentially within a financial communications agency, or in roles related to public relations/investor relations, the capital markets, financial analysis, management consulting, or the media.
- Knowledge of and interest in financial communications, investor relations, and capital markets with their relevant different audiences - and how this differs from traditional corporate communications
- Basic knowledge of general business trends and stock markets and interest in current affairs
- Ability to grasp clients’ business objectives and relevant wider industry dynamics
- Strong research and analytical skills
- Excellent attention to detail
Preferred Skills & Experience
- Experience working with clients within the Industrials sector is beneficial
- Ability to work proactively and flexibly within a team structure
- Comfortable working under pressure to tight deadlines and with varied workload
- Exceptional written and verbal communications skills
- Intellectually curious and resilient
- Highly organized
What We Can Offer
New joiners are supported by an induction programme, 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.
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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 on high-profile projects.
Teneo works with clients on complex issues and challenges that often require a multidisciplinary approach that leverages our main business segments – Strategy & Communications, Management Consulting, Financial Advisory, People Advisory, and Risk Advisory. You will have opportunities to work alongside our experts in these disciplines to develop and deliver an integrated solution.
Benefits
- Competitive salary (depending on experience)
- 28 days holiday
- Discretionary bonus
- Annual salary review
- Pension (with company contribution: 5% of annual salary)
- Extensive investment in personal development & learning
- 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 2000 employees located in 50+ offices around the world.
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