Associate, Strategy & Communications

As Teneo continues to grow its presence across the Greater Bay area, we are seeking an Associate to join their Strategy and Communications team in Hong Kong SAR. This is an excellent opportunity for a driven, commercially minded communications professional to build a long‑term career within a global advisory firm, working at the intersection of corporate reputation, financial communications, and complex stakeholder environments. Based in Hong Kong SAR, this role will support clients across Greater China and the wider Asia Pacific region, with a strong emphasis on integrated corporate communications, financial communications, and investor‑facing mandates.

The successful candidate will bring experience advising senior leaders on market‑sensitive issues, financial narratives, and reputational risk. As an Associate 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, delivering regular insight and analysis, and supporting clients’ reputational and strategic objectives. You will support a wide range of activity including narrative development, financial calendar communications, executive profiling, restructuring and M&A transactions, crisis management, media relations and ESG, government relations, stewardship and governance issues.

• Horizon scanning and strategic advisory: Proactively monitor geopolitical, macroeconomic, regulatory, and market developments relevant to Hong Kong SAR and Greater China, providing actionable insight and senior level advisory to clients.
• Monitoring and reporting: Track media, financial news, public markets commentary, social media, and stakeholder activity, with a particular focus on issues with potential reputational or investor impact. Contribute to the development of advisory notes, briefings, and research driven analysis, and build familiarity with the Hong Kong and regional media landscape.
• Corporate communications: Support senior‑level corporate communications advisory, helping clients articulate and protect their corporate narrative, manage complex stakeholder environments, and respond effectively to reputational risk and emerging issues. This includes development of messaging, executive materials, content and campaign support across traditional, digital, and investor‑facing channels, grounded in rigorous research and insight.
• Financial communications and special situations: Support senior team members in advising clients on financial communications mandates, including earnings support, M&A, restructuring, capital markets activity, and other special situations. Experience engaging with investor relations teams and market sensitive disclosure is highly valued.
• Account and client management: Support the effective delivery of client accounts, maintaining strong working relationships with key client stakeholders. Monitor progress against objectives, flag emerging issues, and contribute to clear, structured client communications.
• Thought leadership and content development: Contribute to the development of client thought leadership, corporate profiling, and executive positioning content, with an emphasis on clarity, credibility, and relevance to financial and corporate stakeholders.
• Business development support: Support senior team members with business development activity, including research, insight generation, and preparation of proposals and credentials. Begin building a personal network of professional relationships across the market.

In addition, you will be expected to:

• Cultivate strong client and team relationships, fostering trust, collaboration, and long term partnership through consistent engagement and high-quality delivery.
• Provide strategic support and insight to client teams by proactively identifying opportunities, flagging potential risks, and contributing to the development of thoughtful, forward-looking solutions.
• Build and maintain a robust network of internal and external relationships to enhance connectivity, influence, and access to relevant market and stakeholder intelligence.
• Commit to continuous professional development, actively seeking formal and informal learning opportunities to strengthen expertise and contribute to collective growth across the team.

• 2 – 4 years of relevant experience in corporate communications, financial communications, investor relations, media, or transaction advisory.
• Experience supporting financial communications, investor‑related messaging, earnings, M&A, capital markets, or special situations mandates is preferred.
• Strong understanding of the Hong Kong SAR corporate and financial landscape, with experience engaging Hong Kong and regional media.
• Excellent writing skills, with a proven ability to produce clear, accurate, and high‑quality content for senior corporate and investor audiences.
• Experience advising or supporting clients through reputational issues or sensitive communications.
• Fluency in English and Cantonese is essential, with strong written and verbal communication skills in both languages.
• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, public policy, business, economics, or a related discipline; a postgraduate qualification is an advantage.
• Strong interest in global news, financial markets, and macroeconomic developments.

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, organisational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance, ESG and DE&I. The firm has more than 1,800 employees located in 42+ offices around the world.

Teneo is an equal opportunity employer and promotes a diverse and inclusive workplace. Teneo considers all applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, genetic information, or sexual orientation or any other status protected by applicable law.