Senior Associate, Risk Advisory, eDiscovery

Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth. Our eDiscovery team sits within the Risk Advisory business group which is one of five strategic businesses focused on client delivery services at Ankura.

Practice Overview

The eDiscovery practice is commonly engaged to assist financial investigations, litigations and disputes, turnaround and process improvement engagements, and other critical business issues. The eDiscovery team specialises in designing and implementing processes that help clients reduce their data and review volumes. Our professionals provide workflow design and strategy for keyword search, workflow assignment setup, content analytics, conceptual search/clustering, and predictive coding, and work with clients to efficiently extract and effectively analyse client data. We help businesses, government entities and law firms to address their most complex and pressing concerns and make well informed decisions, using some of the most advanced technology, tools and techniques. The team’s consulting experience involves large, diverse, and often incomplete data sets across client enterprises including email, servers, cloud storage, social media, mobile devices, instant messaging and collaboration tools. The team collaborates with cybersecurity, computer forensics, data analytics and investigatory experts to assess and respond to both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of problems.

Role Overview

Your role will involve working collaboratively with and learning from our diverse and knowledgeable team that has a wealth of experience in delivering excellent service to our clients. We make use of leading technologies from within our industry and have developed much of our own AI based data manipulation, visualisation and decision making technology using our own inhouse development team.

Responsibilities

• Project consultation Assist with project scoping calls and developing work stream process plans.
• Coordinating with client contacts to provide project deliverables, progress, timelines and advise on strategy, workflow and best practices.
• Designing and implementing intelligent workflow solutions to quickly identify the key facts, details, and merits of the case, and effectively reduce data volumes.
• Analysing and interpreting client requirements and applying them to complex unstructured datasets.
• Responding to client requests and setting clear expectations to internal and external stakeholders
• Conducting quality control checks to ensure accuracy of tasks/deliverables related to searches, review workflow, productions, processing and exports.
• Work with team leads to learn and take ownership of project tasks.
• Performing the day-to-day client engagement activities, including interaction with client personnel, internal Ankura team members, and other stakeholders involved in the engagement.
• Innovation Identify, research, and organise information to assess the appropriateness and sufficiency of available data to facilitate effective data access and analysis; and Design innovative approaches to solve data related challenges.
• Self and team development Contributing to the overall success of the firm by participating in pitches, developing internal training, and marketing the firm externally to prospective clients; and Maintain professional image within the company and project the same to those outside of the company.

Requirements

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree.
• Preferred degree in engineering, computer science, finance, accounting, economics, information technology, forensics, data analytics, or work experience in a related field.
• Possess strong quantitative and qualitative research and analytical skills.
• Familiar with the EDRM and experience in using eDiscovery products / tools: eDiscovery Review/Processing Platforms: Relativity, Brainspace, Disco, Ringtail, Catalyst, Zylab, Everlaw, CasePoint, Nuix, Law, Eclipse, or comparable.
• Forensic Software: EnCase, Cellebrite, Oxygen, BlackBag, FTK.
• Database/Programming: Microsoft SQL Server, SQL, Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, Python, R.
• Email Systems: Office 365, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes/Domino, eVault, email archive platforms.
• System administration experience in Microsoft, Linux/Unix, or Macintosh;
• Hold strong team-oriented personality characteristics: hard-working, thoughtful, and collaborative, with a positive outlook and confidence.
• Highly motivated, eager to learn and able to motivate others.
• Ability to utilise technology to solve complex problems.
• Ability to demonstrate excellent communication (written and verbal) and organisational skills.
• Ability to adapt quickly in handling multiple/evolving tasks as a result of new engagements and/or re-prioritised deadlines.
• Ability to produce high quality and/or final work product under strict deadlines.

Travel flexible Ankura is an Affir… . All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability. Equal Employment Opportunity Posters, if you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening, submit an online application, or participate in an interview/assessment, please email or call toll-free . This email and phone number are created exclusively to assist disabled job seekers whose disability prevents them from being able to apply online. Only messages left for this purpose will be returned. Messages left for other purposes, such as following up on an application or technical issues unrelated to a disability, will not receive a response. Ankura Consulting Group, LLC is an independent global expert services and advisory firm that delivers services and end-to-end solutions to help clients at critical inflection points related to conflict, crisis, performance, risk, strategy, and transformation. The Ankura team consists of more than 2000 professionals serving 3,000+ clients across 55 countries who are leaders in their respective fields and areas of expertise. Collaborative Lateral Thinking That Delivers, hard-earned experience, expertise, and multidisciplinary capabilities drive results and Ankura is unrivalled in its ability to assist clients to Protect, Create, and Recover Value. For more information, please visit, ankura.com.

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