Assurance - Financial Services - Forensics - eDiscovery - Senior - London

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The opportunity:

As an eDiscovery Senior in our Forensic Technology & Discovery Services team, you will work on a variety of client engagements with colleagues across the team collecting, processing, analysing, and producing large volumes of data from multiple sources. Alongside colleagues, you will use industry standard forensic tools along with innovative internally developed software and analytics packages.

Overview of our practice:

Within our global Forensics practice, we have a Forensic Technology & Discovery Services team (FTDS) that is a data-focused unit helping support our clients when dealing with the complex issues of fraud, regulatory compliance, and business disputes. Our FTDS team has a speciality eDiscovery team that operates across the full data investigation lifecycle (identification, preservation, collection, processing, analysis, review, production, reporting, and data disposition).

Our engagements typically require working with international teams on large, and often disparate, volumes of electronically stored structured and unstructured data, and the application of advanced analytics techniques. We work with clients across a range of sectors, and specialising in financial services (retail banking, corporate banking, investment banking and insurance), supporting investigations, disputes, and proactive risk detection. We often work in multi-party teams collaborating with our clients, their legal counsel, and other specialists, using our expertise, experience, and advanced technology to deliver data insights in time-pressured situations. We lead on traditional eDiscovery use cases, and our team also works on adjacent use cases, such as digital forensics, cyber incident response, information governance, and data privacy matters amongst other related matters.

Your key responsibilities:

• Take a central role in the provision of end-to-end support and services on eDiscovery engagements, performing tasks across the whole project lifecycle including identification, preservation, analysis, and productions.
• Use a range of industry standard software and services to support client requirements. such as EnCase, FTK, Nuix, Relativity, Reveal, Brainspace, and SQL.
• Provide direct engagement support to clients, including but not limited to user access, workstream setup, analyticts, and custom object creation within various platforms.
• Work closely with project management to ensure critical deadlines are met and engagement quality is at a high standard.
• Use problem-solving approaches to overcome unexpected issues, both technical and operational.
• Seek new ways to use existing and emerging technologies to solve client problems, e.g., our teams advise, build, and use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to assist our clients, and we are now using generative AI (GenAI) as well to reshape the data investigation process.
• Build and maintain relationships with clients to develop and enhance their workflows creating synergy between teams.
• Support the training and development of junior staff on eDiscovery engagements, including overseeing their work on across all areas of the project lifecycle.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of internal procedures and methodologies including the automation of processes.

Skills and attributes for success:

You will build your career by demonstrating a flexible working style, initiative, teaming, and the ability to learn quickly in a dynamic, and at times, highly reactive environment, focusing on the production of high-quality outputs and supporting the delivery on client requirements to often tight deadlines.

To qualify for the role you must have:

• Professional experience in eDiscovery, digital forensics, cyber incident response, information governance, and/or data privacy, or an educational background in a related field (e.g., computer science, computer forensics, software engineering, project management, law, etc.).
• Proven experience with industry-standard forensic applications and tools such as EnCase, FTK, Nuix, Relativity, Reveal, and Brainspace.
• Experience with databases, particularly SQL programming and design of relational databases.
• Exposure to programming; e.g., industry experience or a significant implementation project at university.
• Strong independent analytical and problem-solving skills as well as strong teamwork skills.
• High risk awareness and ability to identify and reduce risk in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts to nontechnical persons.
• Ability to produce high-quality deliverables.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, and any additional language is considered a plus.
• Adaptable and able to build strong relationships with colleagues and clients.

Ideally, you'll also have:

• Data processing experience in Nuix, Relativity, and Reveal or equivalent industry standard tools.
• Experience in using Reveal and/or Relativity, either as user or administrator.
• Exposure to technology infrastructure including server and cloud-based solutions, particularly Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview.
• Exposure to digital forensic tools and analytic techniques.
• Experience working with modern data types such a chat, collaboration, audio, and video.
• Experience working with technology to enable and enhance investigation processes.
• Exposure to archiving, logging, and digital vault systems; e.g., Mimecast.
• Data visualisation experience, for example PowerBI.
• Scripting language experience, particularly SQL and Python.
• Exposure to Object Oriented programming, particularly C#, C++ or Java.

What we look for:

We are looking for tenacious, curious, and collaborative individuals with a desire to 'get to the bottom' of things. Our people are intellectually rigorous, adaptable, and able to build strong relationships. We have a one-team mindset, bringing the best of EY to our clients, and this often includes teaming across service lines and countries.

What we offer:

• Continuous learning: You'll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We'll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We'll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You'll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

The exceptional EY experience. It's yours to build.

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