Associate Vice President, Forensic Investigations and Intelligence

In a world of disruption and increasingly complex business challenges, our professionals bring truth into focus with the Kroll Lens. Our sharp analytical skills, paired with the latest technology, allow us to give our clients clarity—not just answers—in all areas of business. We embrace diverse backgrounds and global perspectives, and we cultivate diversity by respecting, including, and valuing one another. As part of One team, One Kroll, you’ll contribute to a supportive and collaborative work environment that empowers you to excel. 

Our Forensic Investigations and Intelligence practice, consistently provides firms with the professional investigative consulting expertise necessary to resolve conflict through fact-finding and critical analysis. We have conducted thousands of investigations worldwide and have an unmatched track record of resolving disputes and working with in-house and outside counsel to successfully conduct and conclude internal or regulatory inquiries. Our experts help organizations with their critical fact finding when they need to conduct internal investigations or to examine allegations of wrongdoing. Whether or not actual misconduct is discovered, such inquiries, and their aftermath, can pose serious risks to companies and their stakeholders, damaging their reputation, disrupting their business operations and exposing them to government scrutiny, as well as to potential criminal, civil and regulatory liability. Our investigative services and expertise have helped clients successfully resolve investigations promptly and with minimal business disruption.

The Associate Vice President is a wide-ranging role within the Forensic Investigations and Intelligence practice responsible for conducting research and analysis, structuring projects and managing resources and preparing conclusions for clients. This role requires an imaginative and creative thinker with the ability to work to tight deadlines often balancing a significant and varied caseload. The incumbent will conduct in depth research of commercial and open-source databases and provide clarity in report writing. The candidate must be able to demonstrate excellent judgment, be commercially-focused and be driven by professional excellence and a commitment to the Kroll brand. A key interest in business strategy, global events and markets, with an awareness of working across different cultural and political environments is essential due to the range of cases that will be handled across various industry-sectors.

At Kroll, your work will help deliver clarity to our clients’ most complex governance, risk, and transparency challenges. Apply now to join One team, One Kroll. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conducts research of companies, individuals, events, by using a wide array of sources: public databases, commercial and proprietary databases, and the internet
• Conducts research through interviews of sources identified
• Plans research time and tasks to meet objectives set by the project manager
• Develops an understanding of the strengths, appropriate uses and limitations of research tools and methods
• Identifies patterns, abnormalities and interprets their meaning within a context
• Organizes findings methodically to facilitate analysis and reporting
• Verifies and corroborates pertinent and noteworthy findings
•  Identifies gaps and follows leads within parameters of objectives, timeframe and budget
• Presents accurate, relevant and robust findings to clients

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred
• Minimum 7-10 years’ experience with a recognized professional/financial services or investigative firm
• Ability to large volumes of information and present oral and written summaries in a comprehensive and coherent manner
• Ability to drive forward and coordinate concurrent projects and tasks and managing competing demands
• Managerial-level report writing skills
• Provide project guidance to Analysts and Associates working on client deliverables
• A highly professional and commercial approach to problem solving
• Strong team, project and client management experience
• Flexible team player, with strong interpersonal skills
• Proficient in MS Office, Excel and PowerPoint. Ideally also proficient in investigative analysis tools including skip tracing tools, Lexis Nexis, Westlaw, Bloomberg Law, Pacer, OSSINT, Videris, and other specific sources
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills that help represent diverse communities

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