Copy of Consultant / Senior Consultant, Company and Personal Insolvency

The role sits within the Company and Personal Insolvency (CPI) Team, a specialist sub-team within Teneo’s Australian restructuring and insolvency practice. The team supports the administration of a broad range of corporate and personal insolvency appointments, including liquidations, voluntary administrations, receiverships, bankruptcies and restructuring matters. The role provides exposure to the day-to-day management of both new and existing insolvency appointments, including statutory compliance, investigations, stakeholder communication, financial analysis and asset realisation within the Australian insolvency framework.

Key Responsibilities

• Case administration and compliance
• Assisting with the day-to-day administration of corporate and personal insolvency appointments.
• Supporting managers, directors and appointees with case strategy and the progression of matters.
• Maintaining accurate physical and electronic case files in accordance with firm procedures.
• Updating case checklists and statutory diaries.
• Preparing and reviewing statutory lodgements with ASIC and the ATO.
• Monitoring and complying with statutory deadlines under the Corporations Act 2001, Bankruptcy Act 1966 and other relevant legislation.
• Reporting and stakeholder communication
• Preparing reports to creditors and other stakeholders, including progress reports, receipts and payments and estimated outcome statements.
• Drafting reports and updates to secured creditors, where relevant.
• Responding to creditor queries and other correspondence in a professional and timely manner.
• Liaising with directors, insolvent individuals, creditors, solicitors, agents, valuers, and other external stakeholders.
• Assisting with meetings of creditors.
• Broader support and team contribution
• Attending site and providing ongoing site support to assist with the trading of business subject to insolvency administrations, securing assets, dealing with employee matters and other appointment-specific tasks where required.
• Supervising, delegating and reviewing work performed by offshore staff.
• Providing regular updates to Insolvency Practitioners, managers and senior staff on case progression and deadlines.
• Ensuring best practice, firm standards and regulatory requirements are reflected in all work performed and written correspondence.
• Financial, investigative and asset realisation work
• Conducting statutory searches and reviewing records, bank statements, financial accounts and supporting documentation.
• Assisting with investigations into potential antecedent or voidable transactions, including unfair preferences, uncommercial transactions and insolvent trading.
• Supporting asset identification, recovery and realisation processes.
• Adjudicating on creditor claims, calculating dividends and assisting with creditor distributions.
• Preparing estimated outcome statements and cashflows where required.

Key Skills & Experience

• 1 to 2 years of corporate and personal insolvency experience gained in a specialist insolvency practice or accounting firm.
• Experience working with case management systems, such as IPS or similar.
• An understanding of the lifecycle of corporate and personal insolvency appointments.
• Familiarity with key statutory requirements, reporting obligations and compliance deadlines under the Australian insolvency framework.
• Strong written communication skills, with experience drafting correspondence, reports and statutory documents.
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to producing accurate, high-quality work.
• The ability to manage competing deadlines and prioritise tasks across multiple engagements.
• Strong commercial and risk awareness, including the confidence to identify, elevate and help resolve issues appropriately.
• Good financial analysis skills, including the ability to review and analyse financial statements and bank statements.
• Professional communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to deal with creditors, directors, employees, solicitors, agents and internal stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• A strong, flexible work ethic and a practical, team-oriented approach.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications in accounting, commerce, business, finance or commercial law.
• Relevant professional qualifications, or progress towards them, such as CPA or CA membership, ARITA Advanced Certification, or equivalent, will be highly regarded.
• Experience using AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot etc.) is desirable.