Forensic Services offers a superb business education, enormous variety and assignments that combine challenge with intrigue.
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Financial Advisory
Forensic Services helps clients investigate, analyse and resolve various business issues and disputes, like the risks to profits and reputation associated with economic crime.
Our forensic experts identify financial irregularities, recover stolen assets and introduce controls to reduce the risk of fraud. We've also developed and pioneered new technology that captures, manages and analyses the data used to support investigations and resolve disputes.
The team has a long-established litigation support practice. Its investigation and accounting skills help businesses resolve complex financial disputes that stem from corporate transactions, insurance claims, intellectual property and licensing contracts, and construction projects. We also advise on SEC and FSA regulatory compliance and on minimising the risks of shareholder litigation.
During your training, you’ll work in both Assurance and Forensic Services. This will give you the breadth of experience necessary to become an effective Forensic Accountant.
We offer two graduate programmes:
- In London and Birmingham, you begin your career in Assurance, then transition to Forensic Services. This scheme can accept applications from candidates who need work permits.
- In Leeds and Manchester, you spend most of your time working on Forensic projects, but have the chance to help on Assurance assignments. This scheme cannot accept applications from candidates who need work permits.
In Assurance, you'll carry out audits on anything from large multinational organisations to small entrepreneurial enterprises. Essentially, you’ll vouch for a client's accounts, assessing whether they are true and fair.
In Forensic Services, you'll help clients get to the bottom of particularly complex business issues – anything from a fraud allegation to a merger and acquisition dispute – and provide expert advice on how to move forward. Your Forensic work could include:
- Anti-money laundering services
- Capital project services
- Commercial disputes
- Corporate intelligence
- Employment screening
- Forensic technology solutions
- Investigations
- Insurance claims services
- Intellectual property
- International arbitration
- Rights management services
- Securities litigation
- Transaction and shareholder disputes & investigations
Forensic Services graduate programmes give you the chance to gain highly specialised experience within a team that’s committed to quality. We respond quickly to incidents that generate urgent (but hugely absorbing) assignments. But we also proactively consult with our clients so we can anticipate change. You'll work alongside other trainees, make lasting friendships and build strong networks.
As well as your two-week induction, you'll benefit from superb learning tools plus in-house and external training courses on forensics-related issues such as:
- recovery of lost data
- whistle-blowing
- fraud investigation
- risk analysis.
You’ll also be mentored and coached by more experienced forensics professionals in the practice.
The PwC Experience (Generalist Route) encourages you to move around the firm and gain as much experience as you can over your first five years. This not only helps you make a more informed decision about your future career. It also builds your skills, making you a more rounded and able professional. Supported by your mentor, you'll be able to identify the areas you'd like to move between as your training progresses.
If you're to analyse financial information on behalf of our clients, you must understand the numbers involved. That's why you'll study for the ACA qualification with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales (ICAEW). The studies are rigorous and demanding - but we'll be right behind you, giving you full financial support and access to first-class tuition.
During your career with Forensic Services, you'll have the chance to specialise in a particular area of interest or even work overseas.
The work we do calls for an inquisitive personality. As you may have to overcome resistance from people reluctant to part with the information you need, you must also be persistent and persuasive, able to build trusting relationships that could yield a vital piece of evidence or data that helps your client.
The ability to analyse data or other information, and interpret your findings lucidly - both inside and outside the Forensic Services team - are equally vital.
You'll also need a 2.1 in any discipline and 300 UCAS points (or equivalent).
If you’re insatiably curious and keen to combine your investigative instinct with a career in business, apply now to find out more.