Address Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.
This position supports the Ankura Disputes & Economics Practice - one of seven practices focused on client delivery services across the Firm.
Ankura is recognised as one of the 5 fasted growing consulting companies with 2000 employees across more than 35 offices globally, providing a range of advisory and expert services to the private and public sector.
Our Disputes & Economics Practice focuses on assisting clients with financial and accounting issues associated with complex litigation and International Arbitration. Dispute resolution and investigative engagements involve preparing expert reports and providing oral testimony in court and arbitrations on forensic accounting, investigations, damages and valuation matters.
Ankura's Disputes practice provides clients with expertise in Forensic Accounting and Valuations which include:
- Purchase Price Disputes
- Commercial Litigation
- International Arbitration
- Damages Analysis
- Investigations
- Expert Services
- Business Valuation Disputes
You will be a key member of the engagement team and will be provided with the opportunity to experience a variety of projects working collaboratively on diverse teams with skilled, intelligent, driven and successful individuals.
Why Join Ankura
- We can support and develop individuals who aspire to be experts.
- 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, with the freedom to innovate which promotes curiosity, learning and communication.
Our professionals are trusted advisors who work collaboratively and in a very measured and expedient way to maximise value for our clients. We are experts known for leading challenging processes and bringing together disparate stakeholder groups.
Responsibilities:
- Support all aspects of dispute resolution, complex global disputes, international arbitration and other forensic accounting engagements, primarily including damages assessments, valuations and financial investigations.
- Preparing and reviewing detailed financial models in Microsoft Excel, including preparing DCF models.
- Review documents and collate research.
- Attend and contribute to client meetings.
- Developing an external network of clients and business contacts.
- Studying towards a professional qualification.
Requirements
- Graduate level qualification or equivalent obtained from a leading university (minimum 2.1 degree).
- Be working towards or willing to work towards ACA, ACCA or CFA charter holder.
- Want to pursue a career in forensic accountancy or dispute resolution.
- Experience of valuation, auditing or other accounting services would be beneficial.
- Intermediate Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and strong research and analytical skills.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Initiative, adaptability, creative problem-solving skills, and an ability to work well in teams.
- Advanced technical skills such as database and statistical programming languages, including SQL, R, Python, SAS would be beneficial.
- In addition to English, a second language would be beneficial.
Ankura is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability. Equal Employment Opportunity Posters, if you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, submit an online application, or participate in an interview/assessment, please email accommodations@ankura.com or call toll-free +1.312-583-2122. This email and phone number are created exclusively to assist disabled job seekers whose disability prevents them from being able to apply online. Only messages left for this purpose will be returned. Messages left for other purposes, such as following up on an application or technical issues unrelated to a disability, will not receive a response.
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 Delivers??, hard-earned experience, expertise, and multidisciplinary capabilities drive results and Ankura is unrivalled in its ability to assist clients to Protect, Create, and Recover Value??. For more information, please visit, ankura.com.
