Director, Risk Advisory, Forensic Accountant

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Director, Risk Advisory, Forensic Accountant (Investigation and due diligence) Apply locations SN Singapore time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id R Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.
The Risk Advisory practice is one of six practices focused on client delivery services across the firm.
Ankura is recognised as one of the 5 fasted growing consulting companies with over 2000 employees across more than 30 offices globally, providing a range of advisory and expert services to the private and public sector.
Risk Advisory Practice
This Director position supports Ankura's APAC Risk Advisory (RA), which has the ambition to be the clear market leader in its field.
Risk Advisory provides a wide range of services to enable our clients to investigate, prevent or remediate fraud corruption or misconduct. We draw the right blend of expertise from within the organisation to provide unparalleled investigative and compliance support tailored to the need of each engagement.
Why Join Ankura
We can support and develop individuals who aspire to be an expert.
Vast opportunities for career development, with formal development process, training programmes and internal e-learning training platform, Ankura Academy.
Work within a team of world recognised leading experts in an established leading global consultancy.
Work with a collaborative environment, whereby our professionals the freedom to innovate which promotes curiosity, learning and communication.
Role Overview
This is a key role, supporting the Managing Director in the Global Investigations and Forensic Accounting practice in the Singapore office, and working closely with the global team spanning from the USA, to Europe and Asia-Pacific. The role will suit an ambitious candidate who is an excellent project manager, and willing to get involved in the detail of forensic reviews and investigations.
The candidate will:
Be part of a growing team with a unique opportunity to help shape the practice as it develops.
Lead teams and interact with stakeholders.
Work in a collaborative environment which promotes curiosity learning and communication, where our professionals have the freedom to innovate.
Manage teams and interact with stakeholders on the most complex assignments.
Take a leading role in business development activities, building client relations and identifying potential routes to market, both internal and external.
Experience frequent client interaction including preparing and presenting results
Understand and integrate market leading technology solutions including structured and unstructured data analytics and machine learning.
Travel for project delivery and work with colleagues around the globe
Learn from some of the best professionals in the industry.
Experience truly supportive career development with a formal development process, training programs and an internal e-learning platform, Ankura Academy.
Grow and progress with the practice.
Responsibilities
Provide oversight to the delivery of forensic investigations, fraud risk assessments, forensic accounting assignments, compliance reviews, forensic audits.
Preparing engagement work plans, working papers project documentation, progress reports, draft, and final reports to the highest level of quality.
Working with clients, their legal advisors, internal and external auditors and regulatory authorise in sometimes sensitive and adversarial situations.
Work closely with Ankura's Data & Technology team to embed appropriate forensic technology solutions into engagement delivery.
Monitor and manage risk through the engagement cycle. Adhere to the strictest standards of client and engagement confidentiality.
Maintain active communication with counsel, clients, and internal team to manage expectations and ensure satisfaction.
Manage, develop, train and mentor more junior staff on projects and assess performance for engagement and year-end review.
Develop a network of potential clients and identify opportunities to build personal brand and market reputation of Ankura through thought leadership and targeted market activity.
Support business development and relationship building in connection with regulatory investigations and compliance work. This includes designing, crafting, and delivering client proposals, presentations, and marketing materials.
Requirements
Experience gained in a Big 4/Mid-tier forensic firm.
An experienced people manager running small teams comfortable delegating and actively supporting the development of junior members of the team.
Experience working on business intelligence, international financial investigations, compliance risk assessments, and / or forensic reviews.
Accounting or finance qualification, or can demonstrable confidence with analysis of financial data.
Comfortable with actively networking with potential clients.
First class report writing, communication and presentation skills.
A driven and agile approach.
An inquisitive and critical mindset.
This role requires fluency in English (verbal and written), as it involves regular communication with English speaking clients and partners. This language requirement is essential to meet business needs and ensure effective service delivery. A South Asian second language is preferable.
Must be able to travel at short notice including nationally and internationally. Overseas engagements could be from a week to months.
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About Us
Ankura Consulting Group, LLC is an independent global expert services and advisory firm that delivers services and end-to-end solutions to help clients at critical inflection points related to conflict, crisis, performance, risk, strategy, and transformation. The Ankura team consists of more than 2000 professionals serving 3,000+ clients across 55 countries who are leaders in their respective fields and areas of expertise. Collaborative Lateral Thinking That DeliversTM, hard-earned experience, expertise, and multidisciplinary capabilities drive results and Ankura is unrivalled in its ability to assist clients to Protect, Create, and Recover ValueTM. For more information, please visit, .
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