We are seeking a senior Forensic Investigations practitioner to join our client in Hong Kong at Senior Director level. The ideal candidate will be a Certified Public Accountant (HKICPA) or equivalent with at least 10 years of relevant experience, the most recent 3+ years at Director or equivalent senior-leadership level, and the bilingual capability to operate at evidentiary standards across HK-Mainland-cross-border fact patterns. The successful candidate will lead the most complex multi-jurisdictional misconduct, fraud and asset-tracing engagements, carry a meaningful named-account pipeline across Hong Kong and Greater China, and contribute to the practice's strategy as an emerging Partner-track operator.

Confidential Client. Applying to this position means that you are interested to have an initial confidential discussion about how we can help you to identify and join a new forensic investigations practice. With your authorisation we will exclusively run the entire application and recruitment process for you, keeping you apprised at every step. With over 30 years' combined experience of helping the most talented investigations practitioners to make safe exits to launch rewarding new careers, we have the experience, network and ability to help you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead high-stakes, often privileged misconduct, fraud and asset-tracing engagements, typically running USD 500k - 3m, frequently with HK-Mainland-Singapore-elsewhere-APAC overlay, with full responsibility for case strategy, bilingual interview programmes, evidence development and client outcome.
• Shape investigative hypotheses on the most complex fact patterns and direct structured bilingual interviews of executives, board members and external counterparties.
• Direct asset-tracing and recovery engagements involving capital-movement analysis, beneficial-ownership unwinding across multi-jurisdictional structures (BVI, Cayman, Samoa, PRC, Trust-and-Foundation arrangements), and integration with civil-recovery counsel on Mareva and proprietary-injunction applications under Hong Kong common-law procedure.
• Lead board- and audit-committee-instructed special investigations under formal privileged retainer, ensuring privilege architecture, evidence-handling protocols and chain-of-custody discipline withstand subsequent challenge.
• Develop and own a sustained pipeline of named accounts at General Counsel, CFO, Chief Compliance Officer and Audit Committee Chair level, and at relevant law firm partner level; originate or co-originate USD 1m+ annually in qualified investigations opportunities.
• Convert reactive case work into multi-year retainer engagements covering investigative readiness, internal-investigation playbook design, escalation pathways and whistleblower-channel reviews.
• Set methodology and tooling-strategy direction within the investigations sub-practice; define when LLM-assisted document review on bilingual document populations is appropriate and where its limits sit.
• Directly supervise, mentor and advocate for Directors and Senior Managers - championing their advancement at promotion rounds, sponsoring sustained bilingual upskilling on emerging methodology and AI tooling, and shaping their external profile-building - and contribute to investigations methodology, training and the firm's external IP.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• Certified Public Accountant (HKICPA) or equivalent professional accounting qualification (CA ANZ, ACA / ICAEW, ACCA, CPA Australia, CPA US).
• At least 10 years of relevant experience in forensic investigations, fraud examinations or audit-committee-led work, with the most recent 3+ years at Director or equivalent senior-leadership level.
• Mandarin and Cantonese working fluency at depth sufficient to lead bilingual interview programmes and review bilingual document populations at evidentiary standards.
• Demonstrable track record of leading bet-the-company audit-committee investigations, sensitive board-instructed reviews, and multi-jurisdictional asset-tracing matters with full case-strategy responsibility.
• Direct experience operating with General Counsel, CFOs, Audit Committee Chairs, regulators and external counsel.
• Working knowledge at supervisory-policy depth of the Hong Kong investigations framework: POBO / ICAC referral pathways and Operations Department case-management dynamics, HK Police Commercial Crime Bureau parallel-investigation interfaces, the Companies Ordinance fraudulent-trading framework and Significant Controllers Register, PDPO evidence-gathering practicalities at post-2024 enforcement-decision depth, and the 2024 Mainland Judicial Mutual Assistance arrangements including PRC PIPL / CSL / DSL implications for HK evidence-gathering.
• Familiarity with industry-standard investigations tooling, including transactional analytics platforms (such as CaseWare IDEA or MindBridge), entity / relationship-mapping tools (such as IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook), document-review platforms with East Asian-language analytics support (such as Relativity or Nuix) at investigation depth, and visualisation tools (such as Power BI or Tableau).
• Demonstrable history of converting investigations engagement relationships into multi-year retainer or advisory work.
• Established relationships with law firm partners in litigation, disputes, white-collar crime, regulatory enforcement and internal-investigations practices who refer and instruct forensic investigations work; sustained named-account level engagement is the strongest evidence.
• High-agency operating style, calm and credible under board-level and privileged-investigation pressure, with the methodological discipline to ensure findings are evidence-based, structured and defensible.

Preferred Experience:

• CFE (Certified Fraud Examiner, ACFE) - the recognised primary investigations credential at this level.
• CFF (Certified in Financial Forensics, AICPA) for practitioners whose investigations frequently cross into financial-accounting forensics.
• Postgraduate qualification: Master of Accounting, Master of Finance, MBA, or LLM with investigations / regulatory / criminal-justice relevance.
• Published investigations-focused writing (white papers, journal articles, conference presentations).
• Cross-border investigations experience across Greater China and South-East Asia.
• Growth-mindset operating posture and visible engagement with the AI developments reshaping forensic investigations: candidates who track tooling shifts (such as AI-assisted document review at investigation depth on bilingual document populations, ML-driven transactional-analytics enrichment, or LLM-aided fact-pattern synthesis across HK-Mainland fact patterns), share that knowledge with the Director and Manager bench under their supervision, and have a track record of building team-upskilling programmes on emerging methodologies.

Compensation:

Competitive package commensurate with seniority and experience, including base, performance-based bonus, long-term incentives and (where applicable) partner-track equity participation.

Next Steps:

This opportunity is open to Hong Kong permanent residents and qualified candidates with relevant Hong Kong work-rights status who match the above criteria. Please apply to receive prompt contact from an experienced and specialist forensic investigations recruitment consultant.

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