Financial Reporting Council

Regulators of auditors, accountants and actuaries

https://www.frc.org.uk/about-the-frc/careers

Requirements of the role

Role

• To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in complex and often high-profile investigations under the FRC’s Audit Enforcement Procedure and the Accountancy and Actuarial Schemes.
• The role involves taking autonomous responsibility for certain cases and working as part of a team and taking responsibility for discrete areas on other (generally large, complex) matters.
• The role includes:
  • Leading case teams comprising forensic accountants, more junior lawyers, and legal assistants.
  • Working collaboratively within case teams, comprising forensic accountants, more senior lawyers, and legal assistants on larger and more complex matters.
  • Providing high quality advice and analysis on legal and policy aspects of cases and of Enforcement Division work in general.
  • Planning, and assisting more senior lawyers with, case strategy and project managing and driving investigations forward.
  • Working with forensic accountants to review complex accounting, actuarial and audit material.
  • High quality analysis of information and use of evidence to evaluate cases.
  • Instructing, and working closely with, counsel, independent experts, and external solicitors.
  • Leading, and assisting more senior lawyers with, preparation for Tribunal hearings.
  • Overseeing, and assisting more senior lawyers with, case expenditure and taking responsibility for case budgets.
  • Managing, supervising and developing more junior members of the team.