Consultant/Senior Consultant at Control Risks

Job description

Job Purpose:

As we continue to grow our office in Johannesburg and expand our presence across Southern Africa, a number of excellent opportunities have arisen for experienced Business Intelligence Consultants to join the team.

 
This is an exciting prospect for ambitious, energetic and high impact individuals who are comfortable operating at pace in a collegiate but demanding and results-oriented environment.

This is an exciting prospect for ambitious, energetic and high impact individuals who are comfortable operating at pace in a collegiate but demanding and results-oriented environment.

Our clients come to us for support dealing with complex issues – such as assessing levels of corruption in new markets, identifying and managing third party integrity risks, investigating incidences of fraud within their organisations and embedding best practice anti-corruption and anti-bribery mechanisms into their organisations.

This role is a joint delivery and business development role, focussing on Southern Africa

• Project management and delivery (50%): Provide investigative and professional consultancy services to clients. Help manage the corporate investigations research team in Southern Africa.
• Business Development (50%): To engage with existing and new clients, scope and sell projects and development client relationships across the region.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

The Consultant will support the business and contribute to individual and client-facing outputs in the following areas:

• Client engagements
• Take a lead role in scoping and delivering projects relating to Southern Africa.
• Manage cases end to end in Southern Africa and resolve any issues raised by client.
• Lead and service multiple assignments consisting of complex or multi-jurisdictional tasks, as full case manager responsible for the project cycle in its entirety.
• Respond to a broad range of client requests and write and co-ordinate proposals across the region.
• Delivery and resources
• Maintain and develop new or enhanced sources, resources, subcontractors, with a focus on Southern Africa.
• Quality control on a broad range of assignments.
• Task and project manage researchers and junior consultants, considering appropriate leveraging to maximise profitability.
• Mentor and provide feedback to junior consultants on their performance on cases to support their development.
• Business Development
• Member of account management teams and acting as key client liaison in relation to assignments.
• Support the local global account services representative in developing client relationships; act in conjunction with account managers; cross-referrals to other regional hubs.

Knowledge and Experience:

As an ideal candidate, you will possess the following skills and experience:

• Have knowledge of business issues within the region / practice
• At least 5 years’ experience of managing due diligence and business intelligence assignments
• Experience of operating in a commercial, client facing environment
• Well-developed network in the local legal and business community
• Have a proven track record on executing large consulting projects within a professional services firm (i.e. law firm, fraud/forensics or risk consulting)
• Understanding of the compliance, legal and regulatory risks faced by our clients
• Have a deep passion for high quality service delivery, helping clients and generating new business opportunities

Qualifications and Specialist Skills 

• Postgraduate degree or equivalent
• Demonstrable commercial acumen when planning and pricing projects in terms of time, resources and outcomes
• Methodical approach and strong project management skills
• Communication – written & oral/ability to communicate complex ideas concisely
• Strong client-facing skills, with proven business development capabilities / achievements
• Client Management skills: ability to assess client needs and speak confidently and effectively with clients, listening and creatively addressing their issues