Senior Associate - Forensic Investigations

An exciting and unique opportunity to join as a Senior Associate in Forensic Investigations to work within a specialist Disputes and Investigations in a global consultancy providing expert financial advice, risk advisory and intelligence services to well-known clients.

The Disputes & Investigations division collaborates closely with all areas within the company to provide professional counsel to companies and lawyers who require extensive investigations or dispute resolution.

This means a broad and varied exposure for you to develop and gain additional skills in areas such as financial crime, corporate fraud and corruption cases, and complex litigation and disputes, such as quantifying damages, resolving contract disputes, or providing commercial and strategic advice.

Project Details

The consultancy’s Financial Investigations specialism brings together professionals in forensic accounting, data analytics, forensic auditing, and financial crime compliance and investigations, supporting the disputes team and lawyers with litigation support.

This Senior Associate position would suit an ACA or equivalent qualified candidate who has had a minimum of two years’ experience in audit, and is looking to specialise in forensic accounting and disputes investigations.
As a Senior Associate in an expanding team, you will acquire unmatched exposure to important, high-profile disputes and investigation matters, working closely with colleagues from various jurisdictions.

Furthermore, with exposure to clients and lawyers from day one, your career and development potential are wide. Being a part of a specialised group within a global organisation means that your personal influence will be immediate, whilst being supported by an ambitious full-service professional services firm. 

Responsibilities and Duties

• Assisting the Disputes and Investigations department with forensic accounting investigations
• Assist with litigation support tasks
• Provide technical accounting assistance to lawyers in order to help cases move forward.
• Assist clients with their investigations into fraud or other financial difficulties.
• Project management of cases
• Develop client connections, find and source new work, and new product development

Desired Skills and Experience

• A minimum of 2 years’ experience in an Audit background, preferably from a top 10 accounting firm.
• ACA or equivalent qualified, ideally with first time passes.
• A practise background but an ambition to drive your career in a more specialised setting
• A methodical and rational problem-solving approach, as well as the ability to discover unique solutions to complicated situations.
• Demonstrable client-interface skills with the ability to explain complex, technical issues in an understandable manner to legal professionals
• Strong numeracy skills with the ability to process and analyse large volumes of data
• Competent in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• The ability to speak multiple languages would be an added bonus!

Qualifications/Educational Requirements

• Ideally degree qualified
• ACA or equivalent qualified, ideally with first time passes
• Excellent previous academics

Employing Company Overview and Profile

They are a large corporate company with excellent career prospects for candidates wanting to dedicate their financial career in a specialist disputes environment.

The consultancy assist businesses, law firms, financial institutions, private equity firms, government agencies, non-profit organisations, and individuals in dealing with the most difficult situations.

In particular, the Disputes and Investigations department frequently collaborate with financial institutions, regulators, and law enforcement agencies in frontier and emerging markets, providing independent expertise in fraud and money laundering investigations and assisting in the implementation of best practises to detect fraud and financial crime very early on.

Opportunities like this are very rare, and with such exciting and complex projects, no two days will be the same!

Additional Benefits Package and Incentives

• Generous basis salary up to 60k (DOE)
• Annual bonus