Associate, Forensic Services at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Nigeria

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Nigeria has been operating in Nigeria since 1953 through its predecessor firms of Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse. We're one of the leading professional services firms in the country with offices in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt, over 1000 staff and 31 resident partners.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Associate, Forensic Services

Job ID: 709622WD
Location: Lagos
Job type: Full-time

Job Description & Summary

• A career within Forensics Services will provide you with the opportunity to help clients prevent, detect and remediate regulatory, legal and commercial challenges resulting from unplanned events. It entails working with clients to combat public and private sector fraud.
• This involves helping our clients take preventative steps to limit its exposure to fraud, safeguard their interests in high-risk countries, identify and close gaps in their anti-fraud controls, establish a process to manage such a crisis and prevent recurrence if fraud has occurred.

In addition, you will work with clients to:

• design, implement, evaluate and monitor anti-corruption programs and understand all phases of multi-jurisdictional regulatory anti-corruption compliance.
• evaluate the integrity, reputation and track record of individuals, employees, management groups, and corporate entities by collecting and analysing information that provides crucial insights to decision makers regarding pending transactions.
• Analyse allegations and develop comprehensive response plans. Corroborate and evaluate information/examine linkages and make factual observations, analyse documentation, facts and evidence and quantify economic impacts
• analyse vast quantities of structured and unstructured information to enable the successful resolution of your business issues, be it finding of the truth through e-discovery, analysing data to support business decisions, resolving software compliance issues, or using digital forensics to detect fraud.
• Driven by curiosity, you are a reliable, contributing member of a team. In our fast-paced environment, you are expected to adapt to working with a variety of clients and team members, each presenting varying challenges and scope. Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. You are expected to take ownership and consistently deliver quality work that drives value for our clients and success as a team. As you navigate through the Firm, you build a brand for yourself, opening doors to more opportunities.

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Apply a learning mindset and take ownership for your own development.
• Appreciate diverse perspectives, needs and feelings of others.
• Adopt habits to sustain high performance and develop your potential.
• Actively listen, ask questions to check understanding and clearly express ideas.
• Seek, reflect, act on and give feedback.
• Gather information from a range of sources to analyse facts and discern patterns.
• Commit to understanding how the business works and building commercial awareness.
• Learn and apply professional and technical standards, uphold the Firm's code of conduct and independence requirements.
• Assist in reviewing documents, analysing financial and non-financial records, projects.
• Support project administration, and negotiations.
• Conduct research and prepare reports, presentations and proposals.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver project objectives.

Minimum Experience Required

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of Second Class Upper in any Degree (Accounting, Law, Computer Science is a plus)
• Professional qualification is not required, but, ACCA, ICAN, CIA, CFE or an advanced degree in a related field is a plus.
• 1-2 years post NYSC of relevant professional experience in risk advisory, consulting, or related fields.
• Strong quantitative, communication, and teamwork skills required.
• Additional skills: Analytical thinking, attention to details, problem-solving, research, feasibility analysis, project management, digital skills.

Application Closing Date
19th March, 2026.