Copal Amba - Forensic Accountant - CA/CFA

Skills - Excellent report-writing, communication, and interpersonal skills; a flair for numbers; and exceptional technical accounting and IFRS skills.

The role will involve the following:

- Carrying out investigative research and financial due diligence in order to uncover issues in earnings quality and fraudulent and misleading accounting

- Studying annual and quarterly financial reports, presentations, call transcripts, and other publicly available information on companies as well as identifying any material issues/concerns and deviations from relevant local and international accounting standards

- Identifying instances where financial statements do not record the economic substance of a transaction or possess inaccurate accounting or where the accounting treatment may have been misused to change the outlook of the results

- Studying companies: corporate governance practices and comparing these with accepted practices

- Performing competitor analyses

- Interpreting the impact of identified issues on companies earnings and value; and

- Writing concise reports on findings and conclusions.

Required background

- ACCA or CA Associate Membership (with distinctions in accounting and audit subjects)

- A degree in Finance and Accounting, with a first-class result

- The CFA qualification will be considered an advantage

- A minimum four years of relevant work experience and another four years- work experience in a Big 4 audit firm

- Strong accounting technical capability

- Sound working knowledge of IFRS and US GAAP

- Flawless communication skills in written and spoken English

- Excellent knowledge of advanced MS Excel and Word

- Good analytical and number-crunching skills and conceptual thinking

- The capability to work independently under minimum supervision and to be a team player

- A strong ability to pay attention to detail and to meet tight deadlines by working long hours