Naman Mall

• Led and supported team on over 20 forensic engagements.
• Assisted on multiple suspect interviews and conducted information seeking interviews.
• Budgeted hours and fees alongside managers for various engagements
• Prepared approach notes for prospective clients and attended client pitch meetings with the partner
• Carried out various learning and development initiatives for the entire team.

Investigation engagement examples:

• Employee outsourcing fraud: Analysed employee master to calculate employee turnover ratio, reviewed statutory compliance documents, vendor bank payment advise, bank statements of outsourced employees and performed discretionary checks and identified payment being made to a separate bank account set up by the vendor under employees' name without their knowledge and consent.
• Siphoning off funds: Performed fund trailing on company's crypto wallet statements to identify investments being siphoned off into the promoter's personal wallet. Further, such siphoned off funds was utilised to purchase luxury house in a EU member country.
• Misrepresentation of financial statements: Performed analysis on the general ledger and reconciled with the statements of bank accounts and identified investments recorded as revenue in books of account.
• Roundtripping of funds: Analysed statements of bank accounts and identified significant receipts and payments of similar amounts from and to different entities. Performed background searches on such entities and ascertained similarities like directors and/ or contact information between multiple entities.
• HR Fraud: Analyzed recruitment portal data to identify vendor with highest recruitments. Performed email searches on suspect's backup and identified resumes of candidates received from various vendors and other sources, sent to favoured vendor.

• Performed auditing work in accordance with rigorous auditing standards and principles.
• Reviewed and assessed accounting systems and business controls.
• Handled planning and budgeting for audit engagements.
• Reviewed general ledger transactions to identify errors or irregular entries.
• Identified various risks and errors to propose corrective action to decision makers.
• Assessed financial statements and records.
• Participated in workshops and educational opportunities to build skills set and add value to department.
• Performed extensive assessments of assets, liabilities and equity to verify accuracy in financial reports.
• Analyzed trends in financial data to investigate fluctuations.