Director, Expert Services

Kroll; Dubai; On-site; AED 550,000 - 950,000; Full time

Job summary

Kroll in Dubai seeks a Director for the Commercial Expert Analysis team to lead dispute-related engagements across the region, including arbitration and litigation. You will apply forensic accounting expertise, manage projects, and collaborate with lawyers while developing new services.

The role offers high-sensitivity case exposure and cross-border disputes within a global firm, with opportunities for career growth and collaboration with senior professionals.

Qualifications

• Forensic accounting background including Big 4 experience.
• Strong academics and CA qualification preferred.
• Logical, methodical problem solving with ability to develop innovative solutions.
• Strong numeracy with ability to process large data volumes.
• Ability to explain complex issues to lawyers and lay parties.

Responsibilities

• Lead dispute related engagements, including acting as a testifying expert.
• Provide required expert advice to lawyers.
• Assist clients with fact finding and clarifying facts related to disputes or forensic investigations.
• Project management of a variety of cases; drive efficiency and quality.
• Develop new service or product ideas and opportunities.

Skills

Forensic accounting

Big 4 experience

Litigation background

Chartered accountant

Numeracy skills

Communication with lawyers

Education

Chartered accountant

Job description

In a world of disruption and increasingly complex business challenges, our professionals bring truth into focus with the Kroll Lens. Our sharp analytical skills, paired with the latest technology, allow us to give our clients clarity - not just answers in all areas of business. We embrace diverse backgrounds and global perspectives, and we cultivate diversity by respecting, including, and valuing one another. As part One team, One Kroll, you'll contribute to a supportive and collaborative work environment that empowers you to excel.

The Commercial Expert Analysis team provide expert analysis and testimony in the context of arbitration, litigation, adjudication, mediation and pre-dispute commercial discussions. Situations generally involve complex financial analysis, damages evaluation, loss attribution, economic analysis and investigations, that can arise at any and every stage of a dispute. We also advise on matters investigated or examined by a wide range of authorities including the SEC, DOJ, FCA, CMA and other global regulatory or law enforcement bodies. The team works closely with all teams within the firm providing comprehensive and integrated solutions and can support clients through various phases of a litigation or arbitration, including in respect of technical and industry expertise.

This means a wide and varied exposure for you to be able to develop and gain further skills in areas such as commercial litigation and/or arbitration, regulatory, accounting and economic disputes, shareholder disputes, bankruptcy litigation, competition and follow‑on cartel damages cases, fraud investigations and remediation exercises, as well as various cross border disputes.

At Kroll, your work will help deliver clarity to our clients' most complex governance, risk, and transparency challenges.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

As a Director within an expanding team, you will gain unparalleled exposure to incredibly exciting projects of a highly sensitive nature with very varied work across the region. In addition, your career and development opportunities are vast with exposure to clients and lawyers from day one. Being part of a specialist group, but within a truly global firm, means your personal impact will be instant but will be supported by an ambitious full service professional services firm. As a Director you will work to:

• Lead dispute related engagements, including acting as a testifying expert;
• Provide required expert advice to lawyers;
• Assist clients with fact finding and clarifying facts related to either disputes engagement or forensic investigations;
• Project management of a variety of cases; and
• New service or product development.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Forensic accountant experience, including from the Big 4, supplemented with a litigation and practice background;
• Excellent academics and preferably chartered accountant;
• A logical and methodical approach to problem solving, as well as being able to develop innovative solutions to complex problems;
• Strong numeracy skills with the ability to process and analyse large volumes of data
• The ability to explain complex, technical issues in an understandable manner to lawyers and lay parties;
• The ability to establish effective working relationships - with a strong client focus;

Kroll is committed to equal opportunity and diversity, and recruits people based on merit.