Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services (FIDS) – Assistant/Associate Director recruitment
As a FIDS Director you’ll build valued relationships with external clients and internal peers and develop a portfolio of business by focusing on high impact opportunities.
You’ll lead presentations and proposals for medium complex projects or elements of highly complex projects, and provide subject matter insight to bids and proposals. Drawing on your skills and experience, you’ll create innovative commercial insights for clients, adapt methods and practices to fit operational team and cultural needs, and contribute to thought leadership. You’ll package overall engagement findings into clear, concise, high-quality work products and act as a subject matter resource on one or more services, leveraging knowledge and experience to shape services to client problems. Driving improvements in business processes, you’ll serve as a role model for Quality Risk Management (QRM) and make sure that project teams understand and comply with our QRM guidelines. As a respected senior professional, you’ll communicate effectively with EY engagement partners and managers and work to build, manage and motivate high-performing teams, and help key staff to build sustainable competencies. As an integral member of the FIDS team, you’ll help to create positive teamwork and actively promote a strong learning culture.
Client responsibilities
- Participate in and, as required, lead FIDS engagements
- Manage financial aspects of client engagements and communicate significant issues, fees, and estimates to partners and clients in a timely manner
- Assist partners and directors with generating new business opportunities to better serve clients
- Build strong internal relationships with in Assurance, Advisory, Tax and across other services
- Simultaneously handling diverse and pressing engagements in sensitive and adversarial situations
People responsibilities
- Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching and mentoring staff
- Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for staff
- Contribute to people initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training FIDS professionals
- Maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills
- Understand and follow workplace policies and procedures
Technical skills requirements
- Strong academic record including a degree (in a relevant discipline)
- Experience related to accounting, forensic accounting, investigation and litigation support preferred
- Willingness to contribute to business development
- Regulatory investigations and knowledge of regulatory environment (Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), OECD convention on corruption, local corruption legislation, enforcement trends)
- Fraud and forensic investigations (eg. occupational fraud, bankruptcy and insolvency, insurance fraud, mortgage fraud, procurement fraud)
- Securities fraud and market abuse detection and investigation
- Financial statement irregularity investigations
- Fraud prevention including fraud risk assessments and compliance program development
- Asset tracing investigations and recovery
- Forensic due diligence and forensic audit support
- Investigation concepts (evidence presentation and collection, data privacy, legal privilege, investigative interviewing technique, business intelligence)
- Review of policies and procedures, internal processes and controls
- Anti-money laundering
- Preparation of forensic reports including review, analysis and verification of evidence
- Liaising with clients, in-house counsel, external legal teams, witnesses, police, criminal prosecutors and regulatory enforcers
- Multi-national / jurisdictional / cross-border investigation
- Working in multidisciplinary teams
- Risk management
- Leading sector / law firm business development / marketing initiatives
- Delivering on sales target and a network of contracts
- Excellent command of spoken and written English
- Travelling is required
If you meet our criteria, please send your detailed CV to careers.eys@sg.ey.com, please state the position you are applying for in the subject line of your email.
You are required to provide full details of your qualifications, experience, a recent photograph, and your present and expected remuneration. Please note that applications without these required information will not be considered.
We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.