Manager - Forensics and Investigations

EMPLOYMENT TYPE: Permanent

DEPARTMENT: FFP

DIVISION: Institutional Client Services

WORKPLACE STRUCTURE: Hybrid

Role Overview

PURPOSE OF JOB

The team needs support for its 24/7 investigation and litigation support service that relies on a team who understand the detailed issues on the case and can check facts. These services are essential to support appointment takers to make informed decisions and to respond to requests in contentious including as a matter of urgency and to scale up the team if needed. These services are essential to take on matters involving large and/or urgent discovery, investigation and litigation support projects.

Main Responsibilities And Duties

• eDiscovery including setting up work tasks, tracking workflows and setting up searches.
• Assistance with investigation and eDiscovery strategy primarily on contentious cross border matters (often involving issues of fraud and misappropriation of funds).
• Project management of investigations, eDiscovery and litigation support including overall responsibility for document review tasks, factual analysis and reporting.
• Supervision of junior team members and document review team.
• Assistance hiring temporary review resource and scaling up team as required to meet project needs.
• Meeting demanding deadlines.
• Assistance with onboarding clients, and enhanced due diligence on KYC.
• Invoicing, budgets and other administrative tasks as required from time to time.
  
  

Essential Requirements

• Lawyer or suitable legal qualification.
• 5+ years’ PQE of relevant experience.
• Commercial Litigation, investigations and/or document review experience including on matters involving fraud and tracing issues.
• Technical knowledge of financial fraud, investigation procedures and legal disclosures (eg privilege).
• Experience using document management systems and eDiscovery systems in a legal setting.
• Solid written and numeric skills including understanding of financial statements.
• Proactive and hardworking, willing to go the extra step to ensure tasks are done to the requisite level.