Forensic Accounting Expert Witness Location: London, UK Highly competitive and incentives according to experience, market profile and business generation capabilityA growing independent expert witness and dispute resolution consultancy, currently seeks a senior Forensic Accountant at Partner or Director level to help establish and grow their Forensic Accounting and Commercial Damages capability as part of the continued development of the business.
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This is a rare opportunity for an established or emerging expert to join an entrepreneurial, privately owned consultancy and play a significant role in building a practice rather than simply joining an existing one. The RoleWorking alongside the existing leadership and expert team, you will lead complex forensic accounting and financial dispute assignments across litigation, arbitration and other forms of dispute resolution.
Your work is likely to include: Commercial damages and loss of profitsBusiness and share valuationsContentious valuationsShareholder and joint venture disputesTransaction and warranty disputesBusiness interruption and consequential lossFinancial investigations and analysisExpert determination and other complex accounting disputesYou will take responsibility for assignments from initial scoping and strategy through detailed financial analysis, preparation of expert reports and, where appropriate, giving evidence in arbitration, mediation or court proceedings.
Just as importantly, you will have the opportunity to help shape and grow the forensic accounting practice, developing client relationships, originating opportunities, recruiting and mentoring future team members and helping establish the business further as a recognised provider of high-quality forensic accounting and expert witness services. The personWe are interested in meeting senior forensic accounting professionals who combine strong technical capability with credibility, commercial awareness and excellent communication skills.
You are likely to: Be a Chartered Accountant – ACA, ACCA or equivalent.
Have significant experience in forensic accounting, disputes, damages and/or contentious valuation.
Have substantial experience preparing or contributing to expert witness reports and complex financial analyses.
Have experience leading significant litigation or arbitration assignments.
Be comfortable working directly with law firms, Counsel, corporates and other senior stakeholders.
Have the ability to communicate complex financial issues clearly, both in writing and verbally.
Have experience developing and mentoring teams. Possess an established network within the legal and disputes community and an appetite to develop new work.
For a Partner-level appointment, we would expect an established market profile, experience acting as a named/testifying expert and evidence of originating work.
For a Director-level appointment, we are equally interested in individuals who have developed significant expert witness and disputes experience working alongside established experts and now want the platform, support and opportunity to develop their own profile and appointments.
The OpportunityThis is not simply another senior position within an established forensic accounting team.
Our client offers the opportunity to help build and lead a practice, supported by a multidisciplinary expert witness platform and an experienced leadership team.
The successful individual will have considerable autonomy to influence the direction of the service line, develop their own market profile, build a team around them and collaborate with experts across other disciplines on major UK and international disputes.
For someone ambitious about becoming a recognised expert, or an established expert who wants greater ownership over the next stage of their career, this represents an opportunity to help create something genuinely distinctive. xohmjla All applications are treated strictly confidential.
Sector: Expert Witness & AdvisoryReference: BH4516
Director - Forensic Accounting Expert Witness in London employer: North Gate Executive Search
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