Director, Financial Communications

The Opportunity

Teneo is seeking a high-calibre Director to join our team in Frankfurt. This is a senior, client-facing role for an experienced FinComms Director. As a Director, you’ll be responsible for providing the highest quality of service to our clients, playing a pivotal role in leading multiple, high-profile account teams, giving strategic counsel to senior clients, regularly providing insight and analysis across our business, and proactively contributing to developing additional business opportunities with existing clients and prospects. Directors manage and coach Senior Consultants and Consultants, and work into and learn from Managing Directors and Senior Managing Directors.

Role Overview

As a Director in Teneo Strategy & Communications business in Europe, you will be responsible for building trusted senior client relationships, leading complex client mandates, team leadership, and contributing to the growth and reputation of the business.

Based in Frankfurt, you will work closely with Teneo colleagues across Europe and the global network to deliver integrated advice to clients. This will include collaboration with specialists in corporate reputation, crisis preparedness and response, public affairs, geopolitics, management consulting, risk advisory, people advisory, sustainability, digital and creative campaigning.

Key Responsibilities

As a Director at Teneo, you will be:

• Leading large and often integrated teams to develop and deliver financial communications that have real impact for our clients
• Providing team direction and management whilst acting as the day to day point of contact for clients
• Responsible for client servicing, profitability, forecasting and budgeting
• Generating new business leads through networks and proactive opportunity spotting
• Providing insight and intelligence to the business through your experience and network
• Proactively contributing to and fostering the development of junior team members
• Challenging the status quo with new thinking, new product development, and new ways of working

Skills and Experience

• 8+ years’ experience of working in a senior role in financial communications / IR advisory or in-house
• Demonstrable experience in managing teams
• Financially literate with excellent working knowledge of financial reporting and corporate transactions
• Excellent understanding of financial markets and business media
• Excellent ability to shape and deliver strategic advice to senior level clients
• Able to manage and mentor junior staff
• An engaging self-starter with high attention to detail
• Exceptionally strong verbal and written communication skills
• A collaborator who is able to foster good working relationships
• Time management and the ability to prioritise a varied workload
• Comfortable taking the lead on driving performance and revenue

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 2,000 employees located in 50+ offices around the world.

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