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Practice Overview:

Ankura'sGlobal Investigations & Forensic Accounting teamassistsclients with challenging issues. Our team of top professionals are seasoned advisors with a wide range of experience in technical and forensic accounting, auditing, corporate finance, fraud, anti-corruption,and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) matters, compliance, eDiscovery, information technology, and complex data analytics. Many of our professionals have held senior investigative or enforcement positions at theSecurities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Department of Justice (DOJ), Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Our team is composed ofnumerouscertified public accountants, certified fraud examiners, and former standard-setters and regulatory officials who have been deeply involved in some of the most challenging and high-profile financial and accounting advisory engagements and investigations ever undertaken.

At Ankura, we work collaboratively with our clients toprovideour wide-ranging capabilities in forensic accounting and financial investigations in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible. We have the experience and flexibility to scale our efforts to fit the size and needs of any matter and appreciate that every engagement is unique.

Responsibilities:

• Leverageyourexpertiseto analyze accounting, auditing, and independence rules and standards.

• Assist Ankura Senior Managing Directors and clients with communications with the PCAOB,SEC, or other regulators on auditing,accounting,and independence matters.

• Youwill alsoprovide an independent perspective based upon yourexpertisein GAAP, IFRS, and PCAOB Standards toassistaudit firms with the identification of enhancements to their auditmethodologyand system of quality control.

• Assistexternal and internal counsel to perform investigations of corporations surrounding breaches in a corporation's internal policies, procedures, and ethical behavior.

• Work with colleagues, clients, fraud examiners, internal and external auditors,lawyers,and regulatory authorities on challenging,sensitiveand adversarial situations

• Lead and conduct forensic investigations, technical accounting research, fraud risk assessments, compliance reviews, forensic accounting audits, background interviews and searches, asset searches, fund tracing, electronic data reviews

• Review andfinalizeengagement work plans, working papers, project documentation,progressand finalreportsto the highest level of quality

• Lead and manage workof engagementteamcomprisedof internal and external experts in close,intermittent,and distant collaboration modes

• Plan, manage and control budgets on investigations engagements

• Monitor and manage risks throughout the engagement cycle.

• Adhere to the strictest standards of client and engagement confidentiality and integrity

• Maintain active communication with counsel,clients,and internal team to manage expectations and ensure satisfaction.

• Manage, develop, train, and mentor staff on projects and assess performance for engagement and year-end reviews

• Design,craftand deliver client proposals, presentations, and marketing materials

• Participate in business development activities such as public speaking events, conferences, seminars, marketingeventsand client meetings.
  

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, with strong technical and research skills, andexpertisein financial reporting,disclosureand ICFR awareness

• Minimum of10years' experiencewithBig 4 or internationalAuditfirms, and/or specialized forensic accounting and investigatory services firms

• Proventrack recordof working on complex accounting investigations, national and/ or international investigations, compliance risk assessments, forensic audits, disputes support or expert witness engagements

• Certification and ongoing professional education in both accounting (CPA strongly preferred), and fraud examination (Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified in Financial Forensics designations considered positively)
  

• A successful track record of revenue generation annually

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