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Senior Consultant - Forensics - Data Analyst - Sydney

EY

EY

IT, Data Science
Posted on Jul 31, 2024

At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

Senior Forensic Data Analyst

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At EY we believe that whoever you are, your uniqueness helps us stand apart.

We bring together extraordinary people, like you, to build a better working world.

What’s in it for you?

As our Senior Forensic Data Analyst you’ll provide advanced analytics services to support high profile and sensitive client matters such as fraud investigations, financial crime, disputes, and litigations. It will involve developing data and analytics solutions to regularly ingest and monitor data to detect regulatory and compliance risks such as fraud, bribery and corruption, money laundering, sanctions breaches, know your customer failings (KYC), price fixing, mis-selling of financial products, employee misconduct, trader, and market abuse (surveillance), and much more. This is achieved by combining deep forensic investigation knowledge with advanced data engineering and data science techniques such as investigative data linking, social network analysis, statistics, machine learning and large language models. You will be:

  • Working with clients in various industries, fraud investigators, internal and external auditors, lawyers and regulatory authorities in sensitive situations
  • Communicating with clients to scope projects and gather requirements
  • Highlighting and explaining the outputs of our analytics to clients in the context of their business

What we’re looking for

Here’s our ‘wish list’ but don’t worry if you don’t tick all the boxes. We’re interested in your strengths, what you want to learn, and how far you want to go.

  • Demonstrable proficiency in SQL, Python, Azure data factory and/or Databricks, and Visualization techniques and awareness across other programming languages such as R, C#, JavaScript
  • Ability to work independently, manage work products and mentor junior team members
  • Strong critical thinking, problem-solving skills, understanding of algorithms and appreciation of working with data
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to explain complex analytical concepts to stakeholders from different backgrounds

Ideally, you’ll also have:

  • Domain knowledge of Financial Crime, Market Abuse, Mis-selling remediations, accounting, fraud, bribery and corruption or sector specific knowledge or experience
  • Organisational ability, people skills and project management potential
  • Previous consulting experience and experience with:
  1. Relational databases, e.g. SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL;
  2. Data visualisation software: Spotfire, Tableau, or Power BI;
  3. Azure cloud computing platform;
  4. Big data technologies such as Spark, Elasticsearch, Hadoop;
  5. Statistical techniques (regression, clustering etc.);
  6. Machine learning and pattern recognition;
  7. Front-end web development e.g. HTML, JavaScript;

Our roles can also be offered on a flexible and hybrid basis to balance your time between the home and office. Please speak with us about potential options.

What we can offer you

Acknowledgement of Country

EY acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which EY offices are located around Australia. We pay our respects to their cultures, and to their Elders — past, present, and emerging. Find out more about our vision for reconciliation at www.ey.com/au/reconciliation

Apply now… we’re over 9,000 perspectives in Australia and we’re ready to welcome yours.


Diversity, equity, and inclusiveness (DE&I) are core to who we are, how we work and how we live our values. We hold a collective commitment to continue to drive an environment where all differences are valued, practices are equitable, and everyone experiences a sense of belonging— where people are inspired to team and lead inclusively in their interactions every day. We encourage applications from people of all ages, nationalities, abilities, cultures, sexual orientations, and gender identities and are committed to providing an equitable and barrier free recruitment experience for all. We encourage you to share any support and adjustments you need to be your best and participate equitably in our recruitment process. We understand sharing your needs with us can be daunting, so if you have questions before or during your application, we welcome you to get in touch at contactrecruitment@au.ey.com or +61 3 8650 7788 (option 2). Anything you tell us will be kept completely confidential.

The exceptional EY experience. It’s yours to build.

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The minimum salary for this role is AUD $92,500 inclusive of superannuation and dependent on skills and experience.

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