Director, Financial Communications

Teneo; Frankfurt; On-site; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Teneo in Frankfurt invites a high-calibre Director to join our Strategy & Communications team. This senior, client-facing role leads multiple high-profile accounts, delivering strategic counsel to senior clients and oversight of teams across Europe.

Based in Frankfurt, you will collaborate with colleagues globally to provide integrated advice on communications, governance and market strategy. The position emphasizes building trusted relationships, growing client mandates, and developing the

Qualifications

• 8+ years in a senior role in financial communications/IR advisory or in-house.
• Demonstrable experience in managing teams.
• Financial literacy with solid knowledge of reporting and corporate transactions.
• Strong understanding of financial markets and business media.
• Ability to shape and deliver strategic advice to senior clients.
• Capacity to mentor junior staff and foster development.
• Energetic self-starter with high attention to detail.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Collaborative with the ability to build relationships.
• Strong time management and ability to prioritise workload.
• Comfortable driving performance and revenue growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead large, integrated teams to deliver financial communications with impact.
• Serve as day-to-day contact for clients with strategic counsel.
• Oversee client servicing, profitability, forecasting and budgeting.
• Generate new business leads through networks and opportunities spotting.
• Provide insight and intelligence from experience and network.
• Mentor junior team members and foster development.
• Challenge status quo with new thinking, products, and ways of working.

Skills

Senior leadership

Team management

Financial literacy

Investor relations

Market knowledge

Strategic advisory

Mentoring

Communication skills

Collaboration

Time management

Revenue leadership

Job description

The Opportunity

the company 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 the company 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 the company 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

• 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 the company

the company 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.