EY Assurance - Financial Services Forensics Director London 

United Kingdom, England, London 

756209714

The opportunity
Our Forensics team is growing and as an Investigations & Compliance Market Facing Director you’ll play a crucial role in that growth. Working with clients across all Financial Services sub-sectors, you’ll develop innovative recommendations to some of the most challenging fraud and corruption issues faced by the industry today. Since we work with such a diverse portfolio of clients across industries and geographies, you can expect to take on a wide range of prevention and detection projects, making this a great place to apply your skills and business knowledge.

Your key responsibilities
Market Facing Directors are focused primarily on commercial growth and demonstrating exceptional leadership for our people and for our clients. A key responsibility is therefore supporting leadership in meeting growth targets. Because all clients have unique issues, it’s no exaggeration to say you’ll be switching context frequently speaking with a range of clients from different sub-sectors across a wide range of relevant topics, helping them to investigate complex issues and developing practical solutions that address operational challenges. You’ll also support our clients to proactively monitor and address important risks within their businesses.  It’s all about leveraging and developing our team to creatively assess and resolve our clients’ needs from the front lines, producing robust deliverables which contribute to Shaping the Future with Confidence.

Skills and attributes for success
Knowledge and experience with:

• Fraud, Corruption, Compliance and Integrity domain specialism, including key legislative instruments and enforcement trends (eg Failure to Prevent Fraud, Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act, Bribery Act, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, OECD convention on corruption, local corruption legislation) and knowledge of industry technologies and operating environments

• Investigation methodology (eg in instances of bribery & corruption, fraud, bankruptcy and insolvency)

• Compliance (e.g. risk assessment, monitoring, maturity assessments, remediation)

• Business Intelligence tools and techniques

• Preparing, interpreting and/or auditing accounts

• Analysing, modelling, testing, documenting and presenting financial scenarios, identifying risks and issues, anticipating challenges

• Project Management skills

To qualify for the role you must have

• Proven track record of sales excellence and a strong aptitude for relationship building

• A defined commercial case for the UK Financial Services market

• A curious, inquisitive mindset and enthusiasm for problem-solving

• Enthusiasm for working across borders in an open and multi-cultural environment

• Confidence to support clients in situations with significant ambiguity and uncertainty

• Experience of understanding, digesting, explaining, analysing company accounts and financial information, processes, policies and procedures

• Demonstrable knowledge of the fields of Investigations & Compliance

• Advanced Skills in Excel and experience in Word, PowerPoint

Ideally, you’ll also have

• A Professional accountancy qualification (CA/ACCA/ACA or equivalent) and/or specialist qualification (e.g. ACFE) will be a differentiator

What we look for We’re interested in professionals with a genuine creative vision and the confidence to make it happen. You can expect plenty of autonomy in this role, so you’ll also need the energy and ability to take initiative and seek out opportunities to build or improve our current relationships, sales pipeline and processes.What we offer

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.

• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.

• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.

• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Apply now.