Consultant / Senior Consultant, Company Personal Insolvency

Melbourne, Australia

The Role

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

As a Consultant / Senior Consultant, the primary nature of work that you will get involved with will likely include:

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

The successful candidate will ideally have:

- 6 months plus of either corporate or 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, escalation 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, adaptable work ethic and a practical, team-oriented approach.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in accounting, commerce, business, finance or commercial law.
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