Senior Associate, Risk Advisory, eDiscovery

Ankura Consulting Group, LLC; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Ankura Consulting Group, LLC in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Associate to work closely with project teams, understanding client objectives and delivering high-quality outputs.

You will design and implement innovative workflow solutions, manage client engagements, and contribute to the Risk Advisory eDiscovery practice across investigations and data analytics. Strong collaboration, data-driven decision making, and use of leading tools are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Strong quantitative and qualitative research and analytical skills.
• Familiar with the EDRM and experience using eDiscovery products/tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and organisational skills.
• Willingness to travel.

Responsibilities

• Project consultation and coordination with client contacts.
• Assist with scoping calls and develop work stream plans.
• Coordinate deliverables, timelines and strategy with stakeholders.
• Design and implement intelligent workflow solutions to reduce data volumes.
• Analyze client requirements and apply to complex data sets.
• Conduct quality control of searches, reviews, productions, and exports.
• Collaborate with team leads and take ownership of tasks.
• Engage with client personnel and Ankura team members.

Skills

Relativity

Brainspace

Disco

Ringtail

Catalyst

Nuix

Everlaw

CasePoint

SQL

Python

R

Office 365

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Relativity

Brainspace

Disco

Ringtail

Catalyst

Nuix

Everlaw

CasePoint

SQL Server

Microsoft Access

Visual Basic

Python

R

Office 365

Job description

As Senior Associate, you will be working closely with the project team to become familiar with the clients' big-picture objectives and challenges. You will execute critical project deliverables to ensure these objectives are met on time and with the highest quality. You will be responsible for designing and executing efficient and innovative workflow solutions to address our client's issues. Responsibilities:

• Your responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to, the following:
• Project consultation
• Assist with project scoping calls and developing work stream process plans.
• Coordinating with client contacts to provide project deliverables, progress, timelines and advise on strategy, workflow and best practices.
• Designing and implementing intelligent workflow solutions to quickly identify the key facts, details, and merits of the case, and effectively reduce data volumes.
• Analysing and interpreting client requirements and applying them to complex unstructured datasets.
• Responding to client requests and setting clear expectations to internal and external stakeholders
• Conducting quality control checks to ensure accuracy of tasks/deliverables related to searches, review workflow, productions, processing and exports.
• Work with team leads to learn and take ownership of project tasks.
• Performing the day-to-day client engagement activities, including interaction with client personnel, internal Ankura team members, and other stakeholders involved in the engagement.

Innovation

• Identify, research, and organise information to assess the appropriateness and sufficiency of available data to facilitate effective data access and analysis; and
• Design innovative approaches to solve data related challenges.
• Self and team development
• Contributing to the overall success of the firm by participating in pitches, developing internal training, and marketing the firm externally to prospective clients; and
• Maintain professional image within the company and project the same to those outside of the company.
• Minimum of a bachelor's degree. Preferred degree in engineering, computer science, finance, accounting, economics, information technology, forensics, data analytics, or work experience in a related field.
• Possess strong quantitative and qualitative research and analytical skills.
• Familiar with the EDRM and experience in using eDiscovery products / tools:
• eDiscovery Review/Processing Platforms: Relativity, Brainspace, Disco, Ringtail, Catalyst, Zylab, Everlaw, CasePoint, Nuix, Law, Eclipse, or comparable.
• Forensic Software: EnCase, Cellebrite, Oxygen, BlackBag, FTK.
• Database/Programming: Microsoft SQL Server, SQL, Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, Python, R.
• Email Systems: Office 365, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes/Domino, eVault, email archive platforms.
• System administration experience in Microsoft, Linux/Unix, or Macintosh;
• Hold strong team-oriented personality characteristics: hard-working, thoughtful, and collaborative, with a positive outlook and confidence.
• Highly motivated, eager to learn and able to motivate others.
• Ability to utilise technology to solve complex problems.
• Ability to demonstrate excellent communication (written and verbal) and organisational skills.
• Ability to adapt quickly in handling multiple/evolving tasks as a result of new engagements and/or re-prioritised deadlines.
• Ability to produce high quality and/or final work product under strict deadlines.
• Travel flexible
• Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.

Our eDiscovery team sits within the Risk Advisory business group which is one of five strategic businesses focused on client delivery services at Ankura. Practice Overview: The eDiscovery practice is commonly engaged to assist financial investigations, litigations and disputes, turnaround and process improvement engagements, and other critical business issues. The eDiscovery team specialises in designing and implementing processes that help clients reduce their data and review volumes. Our professionals provide workflow design and strategy for keyword search, workflow assignment setup, content analytics, conceptual search/clustering, and predictive coding, and work with clients to efficiently extract and effectively analyse client data. We help businesses, government entities and law firms to address their most complex and pressing concerns and make well informed decisions, using some of the most advanced technology, tools and techniques. The team's consulting experience involves large, diverse, and often incomplete data sets across client enterprises including email, servers, cloud storage, social media, mobile devices, instant messaging and collaboration tools. The team collaborates with cybersecurity, computer forensics, data analytics and investigatory experts to assess and respond to both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of problems. Your role will involve working collaboratively with and learning from our diverse and knowledgeable team that has a wealth of experience in delivering excellent service to our clients. We make use of leading technologies from within our industry and have developed much of our own AI based data manipulation, visualisation and decision making technology using our own inhouse development team.