Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.

The Risk, Forensics, & Compliance (RF&C) practice is one of seven practices focused on client delivery services across the firm.

This Director/Senior Director role is to support Ankura’s Head of RF&C based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Ankura’s RF&C practice has the ambition to be the clear market leader in its field. We are recognised as one of the 5 fastest growing consulting companies with 2000 employees across more than 32 offices globally, providing a range of advisory and expert services to the private and public sector.Ankura’s EMEA RF&C team is one of 7 practices focused on client delivery across the firm and provides a wide range of services to enable our clients to investigate, prevent or remediate fraud corruption or misconduct. We draw the right blend of expertise from within the organisation to provide unparalleled investigative and compliance support tailored to the need of each engagement. Why Join Ankura

• We can support and develop individuals who aspire to be an expert.

• Vast opportunities for career development, with formal development process, training programmes and internal e-learning training platform, Ankura Academy.

• Work within a team of world recognised leading experts in an established leading global consultancy.

• Work with a collaborative environment, whereby our professionals the freedom to innovate which promotes curiosity, learning and communication.

This is a key role, operating in a fast-paced culture and will suit a candidate with the ambition and desire to grow and develop whist we provide the opportunity and training to support you in that endeavour, including excellent networking opportunities.

• Be part of a growing team with a unique opportunity to help shape the practice as it develops.

• Lead teams and interact with stakeholders.

• Work in a collaborative environment which promotes curiosity learning and communication, where our professionals have the freedom to innovate.

• Manage teams and interact with stakeholders on the most complex assignments.

• Take a leading role in business development activities, building client relations and identifying potential routes to market, both internal and external.

• Experience frequent client interaction including preparing and presenting results

• Understand and integrate market leading technology solutions including structured and unstructured data analytics and machine learning.

• Learn from some of the best professionals in the industry.

• Experience truly supportive career development with a formal development process, training programs and an internal e-learning platform, Ankura Academy.

• Grow and progress with the practice.

  Responsibilities:

• Designing, crafting, and delivering client proposals, presentations, and marketing materials.

• Provide oversight to the delivery of forensic investigations, fraud risk assessments, forensic accounting assignments, compliance reviews, forensic audits.

• Preparing engagement work plans, working papers project documentation, progress reports, draft, and final reports to the highest level of quality.

• Working with clients, their legal advisors, internal and external auditors and regulators in sometimes sensitive and adversarial situations.

• Work closely with Ankura’s Data & Technology team to embed appropriate forensic technology solutions into engagement delivery.

• Monitor and manage risk through the engagement cycle. Adhere to the strictest standards of client and engagement confidentiality.

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

• Manage, develop, train and mentor more junior staff on projects and assess performance for engagement and year-end review.

• Develop a network of potential clients and identify opportunities to build personal brand and market reputation of Ankura through thought leadership and targeted market activity which lead to sales.

• Participating in public speaking events, conferences, seminars, marketing events and client meetings.

  Requirements:

• Experience gained in a Big 4/Mid-tier forensics firm.

• An experienced people manager running small teams comfortable delegating and actively supporting the development of junior members of the team.

• Proven track record of working on international investigations, compliance risk assessments, and forensic reviews within regulatory frameworks

• Proven project management skills working on complex cases

• Ideally, strong sector expertise in financial services, infrastructure and/or sport & entertainment.

• Proven ability to generate business by new sales and/or onwards selling

• Accounting qualifications or demonstrable confidence with analysis of financial data.

• Comfortable, actively networking with potential clients.

• First class report writing, communication and presentation skills.

• A driven and agile approach.

• An inquisitive and critical mindset

• Interest in growing our sports & entertainment offering in the Kingdom

• Proven business development experience and knowledge of the Saudi Arabia would be highly desirable

• Fluent in Arabic and English

• Travel flexible, both nationally and internationally (sometimes at short notice).

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Ankura Consulting Group, LLC is an independent global expert services and advisory firm that delivers services and end-to-end solutions to help clients at critical inflection points related to conflict, crisis, performance, risk, strategy, and transformation. The Ankura team consists of more than 1,800 professionals serving 3,000+ clients across 55 countries who are leaders in their respective fields and areas of expertise. Collaborative Lateral Thinking That Deliversᵀᴹ, hard-earned experience, expertise, and multidisciplinary capabilities drive results and Ankura is unrivalled in its ability to assist clients to Protect, Create, and Recover Valueᵀᴹ. For more information, please visit, ankura.com.