Senior Consultant, Forensic practice, Consulting department

The KPMG Forensic department in the Caspian region is currently one of the most renowned practices in the market helping clients avoid risks associated with illicit activities. Our practice typically works for clients to help them either prevent or investigate misconduct by employees or external parties. The practice in Kazakhstan works on a wide variety of cases, including the following: simple employee misconduct, diversion of company assets, large-scale financial frauds, asset recovery, forensic audits of insolvent companies, fraud risk assessment, anti-money laundering (AML) and anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) compliance. We also help clients by providing AML, anti-fraud and ABC compliance.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Investigation of fraud cases, analyzing financial and business operations of companies, their business processes and management from the perspective of financial fraud
• Reviewing financial and other documents to detect potentially suspicious transactions
• Providing assistance in asset tracing and consulting clients on potential asset recovery options
• Advising clients on strengthening internal and operating controls covering AML, ABC and anti-fraud mechanisms
• Interviewing various parties in the course of fraud, AML or ABC investigations
• Preparation of documents containing vital information that may be used as evidence in litigation
• Collecting and analyzing financial and operating data from public information sources
• Providing fraud risk management, AML and ABC compliance training to internal and external clients
• Conducting assessments of clients’ AML, ABC and anti-fraud policies and procedures, in line with international standards
• Preparation of client deliverables, reports, proposals, contracts and other project-related documentation as well as marketing materials
• Supervising work of junior staff, coaching and mentoring

To fill the role the candidate is expected to meet the following requirements:

• Completed university degree
• 1-2 years of experience in external audit within an advisory firm
• Plus 1-2 years of experience in internal audit function of business entities (preferably non-FS)
• Good knowledge of accounting and financial statements, fundamentals of tax legislation
• Good knowledge of key Kazakh, US, UK, European and global regulatory bodies and of international acts covering anti-money laundering and anti-bribery and corruption (FCPA, UK Bribery Act and local Kazakh legislation), as well as current enforcement patterns by regulators and governments in these areas
• Fluent English, Kazakh, Russian
• Strong analytical skills
• Attention to details
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and multitask
• Good organizational and teamwork skills