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About the Role

HKA is seeking an experienced Forensic Accountant to join their expanding Forensic Accounting and Commercial Damages (FACD) practice in Australia. This role offers the opportunity to lead disputes, investigations, and valuation projects across the Asia Pacific region, working alongside globally recognized Expert Witnesses and developing best-practice skills.

Responsibilities

• Leading and delivering complex assignments.
• Managing and mentoring junior members of the team, acting as the “go to” person for technical areas.
• Serving as an expert on a wide field of sophisticated matters, managing expert reports and formulating inputs into opinions.
• Performing detailed financial analysis and investigations, and developing financial models from transactional and financial data.
• Presenting findings and results to both internal and external clients.
• Actively contributing to and generating a variety of business development opportunities and being a brand ambassador through different channels (e.g. social media, client events).
• Developing strong client relationships.

Requirements

• A minimum of 9 years’ experience in forensic accounting and disputes, valuation or related industries.
• Qualified Accountant or similar qualifications.
• Strategic thinker comfortable working through ambiguity and intellectual challenges.
• Proficiency in preparing loss of profit models for disputes and damages calculations.
• Comfortable working with data sets, such as general ledgers, bank statements and other structured data.
• Demonstrable skills in managing and mentoring junior members.
• Exceptional written and communication skills.
• Experience delivering and producing sections of technical reports and letters.
• Confident managing multiple matters while guiding and supporting colleagues.
• Actively contributing to strategic business development initiatives.
• Values integrity and enjoys being part of a highly supportive team built on strong values.
• Takes ownership of growth, proactively seeking learning and development opportunities.

Skills

• Forensic accounting
• Disputes
• Valuation
• Financial analysis
• Financial modeling
• Report writing
• Client relationship management
• Business development
• Mentoring
• Strategic thinking
• Communication

Location

• Sydney

Work Type

• Remote
• In-person collaboration

Experience Level

• Minimum of 9 years’ experience

Education Level

• Qualified Accountant or similar qualifications

Benefits

• Supportive environment
• Mentoring
• Career development
• Diverse and vibrant office environment
• Company that cares about its people
• Involvement with committees (ESG, ED&I, CIT, BeWell)
• Generous investment in professional development
• Clear, achievable pathways to advance career
• Flexibility in working hours
• Flexibility in location
• Support for remote work
• Regular in-person collaboration

About the Company

• HKA is a leading global consultancy in risk mitigation, dispute resolution, expert witness and litigation support.
• We anticipate, investigate and resolve complex challenges by harnessing world-leading multi-disciplinary expertise and experience.
• As trusted independent consultants, experts and advisors, we deliver solutions amid uncertainty, dispute and overrun, and provide the insights that make the best possible outcomes a reality for public and private sector clients worldwide.
• Our experts have testified across the globe on many of the largest quantum, delay, engineering and commercial damages matters.

Equal Opportunity

• All HKA employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability, gender or gender reassignment, marriage, and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation, or any other basis in compliance with local legislation.