Assurance - Forensic and Integrity Services (FIS) - Manager

Join Forensic & Integrity Services within Assurance and you will be part of a multidisciplinary, culturally aligned  team that works with clients and their legal advisors. Our innovative Forensic & Integrity Services (FIS) advises corporations and their outside legal counsel on complex business matters that involve financial, fraud and forensic investigations and economic damages arising from disputes pertaining to intellectual property infringement and other various matters. Ernst &Young is on the cutting-edge in current trends in fraud and forensic investigations and serves as a quality-focused liaison between our clients and the law.

The opportunity  From performing fraud and forensic investigation to providing expert witness services, these are just some of the services that we provide. Other services which we provide are wide ranging and include dispute resolution, financial crime investigations, anti-money laundering, fraud transaction monitoring, and bribery / corruption cases.

You will experience ongoing professional development through diverse experiences, world -class learning and individually tailored coaching. That’s how we develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders, and in so doing, play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities.

Your key responsibilities

Help clients to work through complex issues of fraud, regulatory compliance and business disputes.  Work on client engagement teams in carrying out both reactive and proactive forensic analysis of large amounts of structured and unstructured data involving a wide range of database management software, statistical and predictive machine learning software, and link analysis and data visualization software.  Involve in project activities including data collection and load, data quality assessment, data cleansing and enhancing, complex data transformation, relationship profiling, sampling and extrapolation, segmentation, statistical modelling, segmentation, structured data mining, text mining and analytical matching.  Work in our specialist forensic technology data analytics lab and on site to help clients leverage knowledge from their data for measurement of fraud risks and losses, prevention, continuous  monitoring, detection and investigation of occupational fraud, waste and abuse, financial crime and other form non-compliant activities.  Work with clients, fraud examiners, internal and external auditors, lawyers and regulatory authorities in sometimes sensitive and adversarial situations.  Help to prepare sections of expert reports, including review, analysis and verification of evidence data and identifying key issues.  Be willing to learn, and with time develop and improve leading edge methodologies applied to forensic data analytics engagement that are both reactive and proactive.

Skills and attributes for success

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills  Strong drive to excel professionally, and to guide and motivate others  Advanced written and verbal communication skills  Dedicated, innovative, resourceful, analytical and able to work under pressure  Foster an efficient, innovative and team-oriented work environment

To qualify for the role you must have

A bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or professional accounting qualification in auditing, forensic accounting, investigation or litigation support  Minimum of five years of work experience in professional services environment  Ability to run forensic assignments across multiple jurisdictions  Experience in case management and managing portfolio of clients  Willingness to travel on assignments

Ideally, you’ll also have

Previous working experience in a consulting or professional services organisation

What we look for   Highly motivated individuals with excellent problem-solving skills and the