FTI Consulting has additional boosted its Forensic & Litigation observe in Sydney with the hires of Natalie Faulkner and Sam Scerri from KPMG, with each assigned to guide their respective practices.
Natalie Faulkner, beforehand a companion at KPMG, will lead the Australian Danger & Investigation observe of FTI Consulting as a senior managing director, whereas Scerri crosses as a managing director to go up the Knowledge & Analytics observe.
Collectively the pair deliver greater than 4 many years price of mixed expertise, with Faulker having additionally served as a director at PwC throughout her 17 years on the agency and Scerri earlier spending time at each Accenture and Deloitte.
“Our shoppers across the area are experiencing a highly-regulated setting and stress from authorities companies to enhance threat and governance methods,” mentioned Forensic & Litigation observe chief Dawna Wright of the brand new recruits, including they convey the specialised experience wanted to deal with complicated shopper points and incidents which usually contain giant information units.
Natalie Faulkner initially joined PwC within the UK in 1999 following a commerce diploma in accounting and finance with UNSW, earlier than returning to Australia with the agency three years on. There, she spent greater than a decade as a fraud & forensics director between Sydney and Perth previous to becoming a member of KPMG, the place she was later elevated to companion and led the agency’s world fraud & rip-off threat group.
Famous for her capability to acquire insights from disparate information sources, Faulkner has amassed important expertise throughout her profession in investigations and fraud detection and prevention, serving as an advisor and professional witness on civil and legal issues for shoppers throughout a variety of industries, together with the monetary companies, authorities, telecom, mining, and building sectors.
“Companies want to have the ability to attest to compliance and establish and handle non-compliance by way of investigation, remediation and determination in a well timed method,” Faulkner said. “I sit up for becoming a member of the specialists at FTI as we apply our world groups’ deep business data and expertise to assist shoppers by way of these challenges with restricted business-as-usual disruption.”
Sam Scerri in the meantime kicked off his profession within the banking sector, together with a seven year-stint at ANZ between Brisbane and Melbourne rising to company advisory director earlier than his shift into consulting with Deloitte and later Accenture. In 2022 he joined KPMG, serving as head of knowledge & expertise throughout the agency’s threat consulting enterprise after which a director of knowledge & AI threat options.
Along with growing AI-driven options for numerous sectors, Scerri’s expertise contains capital optimisation and monetary restructuring, whereas in his new function main FTI Consulting’s information & analytics observe he will probably be tasked with supporting shoppers on digital transformations, threat administration, regulatory compliance, and investigations & disputes by way of the usage of superior applied sciences.
Scerri will not be unfamiliar with FTI Consulting, having collaborated with the agency on restructuring issues whereas at ANZ, however mentioned it’s an thrilling time to be a knowledge analytics chief within the finance and threat house with the appearance of AI. “FTI Consulting is a agency that embodies the form of work I actually get pleasure from – tackling correct disaster points, participating in necessary work, and serving to shoppers at their most crucial moments.”
