Fraud Investigation Services - Senior Associate - Durban at EY

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.

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 with at least 2 - 4 years of experience in auditing, forensic accounting, investigation or litigation support.
• Ability to run forensic assignments across multiple jurisdictions
• Experience in case management and managing portfolio of clients
• A team player with an investigative mindset
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent command of spoken and written English
• Willingness to travel on assignments