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• Company

  Ernst & Young

• Location

  UK-London

• Compensation

  Competitive

• Position Type

  Permanent

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  18 Nov 2009

• eFC Ref no

  582526

Forensic Discovery Services Executive - London - Competitive Salary

As a FIDS Executive at Ernst & Young, you will technically contribute to FIDS client engagements and internal projects. An important part of your role will be actively establishing, maintaining and strengthening internal and external relationships. You'll also identify and escalate potential business opportunities for Ernst & Young on existing engagements. Similarly, you will anticipate and identify risks and inform senior members of the team about significant issues. You'll determine that delivered work is of high quality and is reviewed by the next-level reviewer. As an influential member of the team, you'll help to create a positive learning culture and will coach and counsel junior team members and help them to develop.

Technical skills requirements:

You'll have knowledge and experience of a number of the following areas:
* Working within an e-discovery or litigation support environment
* Project management and process improvement
* Managing the e-discovery cycle, including preservation, analysis and production. In-depth experience working with the EDRM an advantage
* Developing industry-leading solutions to support linear review and conceptual analysis
* Designing and implementing data extraction, conversion, search, filtering and review strategies
* Planning and implementing litigation hold strategies
* Database design and implementation (including SQL), programming and systems implementation
* Computer forensic processes
* Investigation concepts (evidence preservation and collection, data privacy, legal privilege, investigative interviewing, business intelligence)
* Legal and regulatory contexts that may impact the discovery process
* Preparation of forensic reports, preferably with expert witness experience.
* Liaising with clients, in-house counsel, external legal teams, witnesses, police, criminal prosecutors and regulatory enforcers
* Multinational/jurisdictional/cross-border investigations
* Working in multidisciplinary teams
* Risk management

Additional requirements:

* Strong academic record including a degree/post graduate degree in a related field (preferably a computer science or information technology related qualification).
* Knowledge of accountancy an advantage
* Experience in business development
* Simultaneously handling diverse and pressing assignments and sensitive and adversarial situations
* Skills in Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Exchange

Ernst & Young is in the business of delivering seamless, consistent, high-quality professional services worldwide. We have 135,000 individuals across 140 countries, with an array of talents, who deliver these services daily.

United by the belief that every person, organisation and community needs help to achieve their potential, we strive to use our talents to make a real difference to each other, to our clients and to the communities in which we work and live.

Whether your career lies in assurance, tax, transaction, advisory or core business services, you will be joining an organisation where you count as an individual and everything you need for professional and personal success is already in place.