Forensic Director, fast track to Partner: LLP, no PE

ICAEW; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship to Expert

Progression to Partner

Prestigious brand

Job summary

ICAEW is seeking a Disputes Director to join its growing Forensic team in London, offering a clear path to Expert and Partner. You will leverage ACA training and UK experience to lead high-value disputes, damages and valuation mandates while developing new business from your network.

The role emphasizes mentoring from a new-gen Partner and a strong brand position in the forensics market, with opportunities to accelerate your progression as you bill under your own name.

Qualifications

• ACA or equivalent is required.
• UK-trained and experienced Forensic accountant with emphasis on disputes/damages/valuation.
• Ambition to become a fully-fledged Expert and Partner.

Responsibilities

• Lead disputes/damages/valuation mandates for clients.
• Develop repeat business from your contacts and high-quality output from the team.
• Progress toward equity partnership through successful billing under your own name.

Skills

Forensic accounting

Disputes & damages

Valuation

Business development

Client relationship

Education

ACA or equivalent

Job description

Your new company

I've helped this client build out their incredibly successful, busy, and consistently growing Forensic team and am delighted they are now ready to bring in a de facto partner designate. More on that below. The firm is full-service accounting/advisory with impressive year-on-year growth (mainly organic with the occasional acquisition) but with very few conflicts and a track record of growing successful Advisory businesses (I can give an example of a JV acquired a few years ago which became the landing point for a key US firm in the UK.). There is a whole-firm culture around career sponsorship, so your mentor/s are not "just" a key Partner in your own team. Nonetheless, the lead Forensic Partner is a great example of someone who deliberately chose to leave a large firm at Director level and has achieved Expert, Partner and now equity Partner all within this firm. They have given evidence many times now, and as a "new gen" Partner will be the ideal role model to guide you through the same path. The Forensic/Valuations team attracts a really broad range of mandates across quantum/damages, valuation (contentious and non-contentious) and investigations. The average size of law firm referring has increased significantly in recent times and in consequence firms "on the other side" are typically larger too. I can speak to the calibre of the delivery team, many of whom have deliberately chosen to join from bigger firms to accelerate their progress. Business development activities for the team lean towards imaginative and creative as opposed to "flashy" and client take-up is high as a result.

Your new role

The firm are now keen to engage with a Disputes Director who is off the starting blocks on billing in their own name. You're likely to be attracting mandates from your own contacts (even if then conflicted) as well as generating repeat business via high calibre output from others. The threshold here for Partnership is more accessible than in a Top 10 or equivalent independent consulting firm, so if you're already "washing your face" in self-generated billings, it may only take a multiple of 2-3 times that to be in the conversation for 1st-rung partner. I can explain more on enquiry.

What you'll need to succeed

• ACA or equivalent
• UK-trained and experienced Forensic accountant, with an experience lean towards disputes/damages/valuation
• A real desire to become a fully-fledged Expert in your own name
• The confidence to build business and the commerciality to succeed

What you'll get in return

• High calibre delivery team
• A brand that is not just warmed-up but fully established in the Forensic market, often punching above its (apparent) weight
• Mentorship through to Expert and Partner, from a "new gen" Partner and others
• The reward of true Partnership when you get there yourself.