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Job Summary:
Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is a global consulting firm focused on delivering results for clients across various sectors. The Director of Digital Forensics will lead a team to leverage forensic data technologies, assisting clients in complex legal matters and ensuring best practices in data handling and preservation.
Responsibilities:
• Throughout all phases of the forensic data lifecycle, you will lead a team of consultants to enable our external clients and internal teams to leverage forensic data technologies to uncover and manage data-based evidence and intelligence in contentious legal and regulatory situations.
• In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead a team to assist our clients and internal teams in confronting and resolving complex legal matters.
• You will be discovering and processing forensically preserved data and evidence relating to complex accounting issues on a variety of projects involving economic disputes, white-collar crime investigations, forensic accounting and consulting, and post-acquisition disputes.
• By establishing consultative relationships with external and internal stakeholders, you will guide them toward best practices in data and evidence handling and preservation.
• Participate in the full lifecycle of forensic data collection processing; including the identification, recovery, preparation, analysis, and preservation of digital data used in legal or regulatory situations.
• Lead a team of consultants, managing all aspects of onsite data collection.
• Participate in the collection, pre-processing, capture and preparation of images and other forensic data artifacts in effort to prepare the data to analyze.
• Maintain data and documentation according to prescribed chain of custody protocol.
• Perform data extraction and conversion to migrate data to Relatively environment.
• Processing and support of images and data once in review environment.
• Analysis of artifacts to trace user activity (e.g., file manipulation, USB activity, browser history, chat analysis, cloud activity, cryptocurrency transactions, etc.).
• Plan and manage onsite data and evidence collection activities.
• Build relationships and reputation through excellent stakeholder management.
• Communicate technical processes and findings clearly and precisely to clients and colleagues, including writing reports on forensic data analysis to present to council and clients.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Minimum 8+ years’ experience in the field of digital forensics in a client-facing, professional service setting
• Extensive experience with scoping and performing on-site and remote forensic preservations of unstructured and structured data sources especially endpoint, mobile, cloud-based application, and social media data sources
• Extensive experience in forensic tool suites including OpenText EnCase, Cellebrite UFED4PC, Physical Analyzer, and Endpoint Inspector, Magnet Forensics Axiom
• Extensive experience performing forensic analyses and preparing client-ready work product
• Sound technical understanding of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) and best practices in forensic collection, analysis, and review
• Excellent interpersonal skills, oral and written communication skills when working with both clients and internal technical teams
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and collect, organize, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
• Capacity to thrive in a fast-paced, challenging, and uncertain environment
• An excellent academic record and a BS, BBA, or BA degree from an accredited university with a degree focused in a technical and/or analytical field, (i.e., computer science, information systems, engineering)
• Flexibility to travel approximately 20-40% of the time
• Training and/certifications from industry organizations or vendors (i.e., GFCE, EnCE, CISSP), and/or other relevant professional certifications
Preferred:
• Quantitative skills including experience with SAS, Stata, Python, R, Power BI, or SQL
Company:
Alvarez & Marsal provides advisory services related to turnaround management and performance improvement. Founded in 2003, the company is headquartered in New York, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.