University Associate - Risk Advisory, Forensics
About the job
- A Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field with an expected graduation date between December 2026 and June 2027.
- An interest in pursuing a Certified Public Accountant license or other advanced certifications upon graduation and completion of state requirements.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively with colleagues.
- Ability to adapt quickly while handling multiple evolving tasks or engagements and reprioritizing deadlines in a changing environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication, computer, organizational, quantitative, qualitative analytical, mathematical, and research skills.
- Technical accounting, financial, and economic skills, including familiarity with the application of Securities and Exchange Commission rules, regulations, and disclosures.
- Understanding of and experience applying or researching U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles and/or Generally Accepted Auditing Standards.
- Proficiency with personal-computer environments and related software, including Microsoft Office applications, specifically advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Permanent authorization to work in the United States, such as U.S. citizenship or permanent residency.
- Willingness to travel as needed.
- Apply accounting, financial, and analytical skills to client issues, including analysis of transactional data, books and records, and financial statements; tracing the flow of funds; calculating damages in complex disputes; and reviewing revenue recognition procedures.
- Assist with designing and implementing analysis, investigation, and project-specific workplans.
- Develop and perform analyses to assess complex fact patterns and prepare reports and schedules summarizing findings for review by senior colleagues and clients.
- Document and maintain detailed workpaper records covering assumptions, information sources, methodologies, and procedures underlying analytical tasks.
- Deliver high-quality work products and deliverables within established timeframes and budgets.
- Perform day-to-day client engagement activities, interact with internal team members and other stakeholders, and develop productive working relationships with colleagues and clients.
- Participate in pitches, proposals, internal and external networking events, external marketing to prospective clients, and corporate social responsibility events.
About the company
1) What the company does: Ankura provides tailored consulting services in turnaround and restructuring advisory, growth advisory, and risk management for a diverse set of clients, helping them address challenges, grow value, and protect against risks. 2) How the product works: The firm assembles a customized team of former C-level executives and industry specialists to develop and execute client-specific strategies. Engagements are collaborative, with teams working closely with clients; fees are based on project scope, complexity, and expertise required. 3) How it differs from competitors: Ankura emphasizes a flexible, problem-solving approach using a carefully assembled mix of expert professionals and technology-enabled processes, delivering bespoke solutions rather than one-size-fits-all services. 4) What the company’s goal is: To help businesses navigate challenges, grow sustainably, and manage risks by providing expert, customized guidance and execution.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Debt Financing
Total Funding
$810M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2006
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What believers are saying
- Ankura says it serves 3,000-plus clients across 55 countries, supporting cross-sell.
- Middle East financial-services expansion in Riyadh and Dubai targets GCC bank modernization and regulatory demand.
- Private-equity-backed Ankura keeps building AI, risk, and restructuring offerings during enterprise adoption spending.
What critics are saying
- GWG Trust sued Ankura on April 1, 2026 over alleged facilitation of accounting fraud.
- Ankura's AI race pits it against Accenture, EY, and AlixPartners, squeezing pricing.
- A sustained GWG fraud finding would cripple Ankura's disputes brand and expert-witness pipeline.
What makes Ankura Consulting Group unique
- Ankura launched AI by Design on September 30, 2026, bundling strategy, governance, workforce transformation.
- Ankura's April 28, 2026 managed services adds AI-enabled financial-crime operations with 24/7 global delivery.
- September 2026 hires Joanne Taylor and Chris Broyles strengthen operating rigor and courtroom storytelling.
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↑ 1%Ankura launches AI by Design practice to help organisations close the gap between AI ambition and adoption. September 30, 2026 Ankura, the U.S. PE-backed advisory firm, invests in new Data & AI capabilities in the UK and an ecosystem of specialist partners to close the adoption gap holding back the ROI of enterprise AI. LONDON, Sept. 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Ankura Consulting Group, LLC ("Ankura"), today announced the launch of Ankura, AI by Design, a new tech-agnostic practice in the UK, serving EMEA, which focuses on helping clients use AI to grow revenue, expand what organisations can achieve with AI, and lift underlying profit. AI by Design is built on the conviction that AI should be shaped around the organisation: its ambitions, people, customers, and distinctive capabilities. Technology is an important part of that equation, however sustainable value depends on the strategy, operating model, skills, systems, governance, talent, and culture that allow AI to change how work gets done and enable organizations to achieve their strategic growth ambitions. This new practice reflects the increasing demand for practical, adoption-led AI advisory and builds directly on Ankura's established strength in strategy, risk, technology, and workforce transformation. "AI transformation programmes usually break down due to organizational challenges rather than the underlying technology itself. AI by Design is built by people who understand that, which is why I wanted to be part of it." Hywel Ball, AI Advisory Council Member, Former EY UK Chair and Non-Executive Director. Ankura, AI by Design's proposition is structured around three integrated pillars, underpinned by an internal AI Factory that builds, tests, and deploys AI in real delivery environments: * AI Strategy: targeting topline growth opportunities for boards and leadership teams to unlock * AI Governance Engineering: enabling organizations to manage AI risk and unlock value at scale by re-wiring the user experience of AI governance to be more intuitive and more efficient to operate * AI Workforce Transformation: redesigning roles, reskilling people, and embedding human-centered change so AI adoption embeds across the organization "Most enterprise AI stalls because organizations are not ready to adopt it, govern it, or redesign work and systems around it. Ankura, AI by Design closes that gap." Catriona Campbell, MBE - Practice Lead for Ankura, AI by Design. Ankura, AI by Design is led by a senior team with direct experience of successfully embedding AI and human-centered change inside global blue-chip multinationals across strategy, governance, and workforce transformation. They are joined by a curated ecosystem of early-stage 'best athlete' partners; Decoded for AI literacy and workforce reskilling, Seymour-Powell for human-centred design, and Inference Group for AI engineering and delivery. The practice is supported by an Advisory Council of senior figures from across technology, governance, academia, and industry, bringing an independent perspective on where AI is genuinely creating value, ensuring Ankura's advice reflects the frontier of AI strategy, governance engineering, and workforce transformation. "The technology has never been the biggest challenge. What matters is whether an organisation understands the outcomes they want to drive, and then designs how it works, governs, and trains its people around those outcomes. Ankura, AI by Design's focus on the human and organisational side of deployment is exactly the discipline the private sector now needs too." Dr Laura Gilbert CBE, AI Advisory Council Member, Senior AI advisor to UK government and industry. "The investment in AI by Design strengthens Ankura's commitment to helping clients turn AI ambition into measurable results," said Kevin Lavin, CEO of Ankura. "Across every industry, the organizations that succeed with AI are the ones that bring their people with them, not just their technology. Ankura's AI by Design practice helps our clients to adopt AI with confidence and turn it into real, lasting value." ABOUT ANKURA Ankura Consulting Group, LLC is an independent global expert services and advisory firm that delivers end-to-end solutions to manage conflict, crisis, performance, risk, strategy, and transformation. Committed to its mission of Driving Excellence, Delivered with Humanity, Ankura has more than 2,000 professionals serving 3,000+ clients across 55 countries. For more information, please visit: ankura.com.
Ankura Consulting Group has appointed Chris Broyles as Senior Managing Director and Practice Leader of Visual Communications Consulting & Trial Services. Based in Chicago, Broyles will expand the firm's visual persuasion capabilities, helping clients develop clear visual arguments for courtrooms and boardrooms. Broyles brings over 25 years of experience in litigation graphics, trial technology, and strategic communications. He has supported more than 100 federal and state trials for leading law firms. His expertise spans demonstrative design, courtroom presentation technology, and crisis communications. Before joining Ankura, Broyles founded a Chicago-based strategic consultancy serving Fortune 500 corporations and AmLaw 100 law firms. He previously held senior leadership roles at global consulting organisations, where he led digital and creative practices.
Ankura Consulting Group has appointed Joanne Taylor as chief operating officer. Taylor will lead global operations and oversee the firm's day-to-day activities, focusing on performance and profitability whilst building operational infrastructure for efficient scaling. Taylor brings over 25 years of experience advising boards, private equity sponsors, and executive teams. Her expertise includes business transformation, operating-model design, and operational excellence. At Ankura, she will work to integrate the firm's businesses, expand AI use across operating functions, and establish consistency across markets and service lines. Prior to joining Ankura, Taylor held senior leadership roles in global consulting, technology, and services organisations. She holds an MBA from Baylor University. Ankura is a global consulting and expert advisory firm with more than 2,000 professionals serving 3,000-plus clients worldwide.
Ankura appoints Joanne Taylor as chief operating officer. 26 August 2026 Consulting.us Ankura, a New York-headquartered expert services and advisory firm, has appointed Joanne Taylor as chief operating officer. Based in the firm's headquarters, Taylor brings more than 30 years of experience in professional and business services - with expertise across strategy, operations, business transformation, and building high-performance teams. As COO, Taylor will oversee Ankura's global corporate functions - finance, operations, it, risk management, and real estate and workplace services, including the firm's business services center in India - supporting the firm's ambition to double in size. She joins from AlixPartners, where she spent more than six years and was a partner and managing director and co-leader of the global business transformation and Americas strategy and analysis practices. At the consultancy, Taylor worked with clients on large-scale transformations to drive revenue, margin expansion, and capital efficiency. Before that, Taylor spent 13 years with human capital management (HCM) firm ADP, where she served as division vice president and general manager of the upmarket HCM outsourcing business (HR, payroll, benefits, workforce planning, and talent acquisition). In the role, she led 1,500 people across $450 million in P&L responsibility. Earlier in her career, Taylor worked at IBM and PwC. She has an MBA from Baylor University and a bachelor's degree in business and marketing from Graceland University. "I'm honored to join Ankura at such a pivotal moment and look forward to working with the team to strengthen how the firm operates, to connect our businesses, and to build the modern, technology- and data-driven corporate services that will help Ankura scale with discipline," Taylor said. Ankura has more than 2,000 professionals across 35+ global locations. The firm delivers advisory services in turnaround, finance, operations, risk and disputes, investigations, talent, data, and AI. Ankura earlier this year launched a managed services offering for financial crime compliance operations.
Ankura strengthens Financial Services practice with senior hire Shariq Nazim. 20 August 2026 Consultancy-me.com Ankura has strengthened its Financial Services practice in the region with the hire of Shariq Nazim, who has been appointed as a Senior Managing Director. Based in the firm's Riyadh office, Nazim brings more than 25 years of experience in financial services and digital banking across the Gulf region. He joins the firm from Accenture, where he was a Managing Director and is credited with expanding its digital banking advisory capability through a successful go-to-market approach that helped to substantially grow the client pipeline. Before that, he held executive roles at banking institutions Aion Digital, where he served as Chief Technology and Growth Officer, and Gulf Bank, where he was Head of Strategy & Digital Transformation. At Ankura, he will advise banking and financial institutions at the executive level on topics including core banking transformation, digital strategy, and large-scale modernisation programmes across both 'Build the Bank' and 'Transform the Bank' environments. "I'm excited to be joining Ankura - a place where culture isn't just a value on a wall, it's how the team actually operates. I'm looking forward to building out the Financial Services practice across the GCC alongside such a talented team. My main area of focus will be helping banking executives modernise faster and make better technology decisions by delivering transformation that creates long-term value." Nazim maintains long-standing relationships with senior executives at leading GCC financial institutions, including executives at the CEO and CIO levels at banks in Riyadh, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates. "We're pleased to welcome Shariq to Ankura. He has a deep understanding of both business strategy and technology implementation, combined with extensive experience working alongside leading banking and cloud technology providers," said Ankura of its latest hire in the region. Earlier in his career, Nazim spent over fifteen years in the UK, working at Big Four firm EY in its consulting arm and for Lloyds Bank and HBL.