Forensic Services

Optimize your organization’s security with our experienced forensic team

Irregularities within an organization can lead to serious consequences. It is crucial to act swiftly on information and allegations to manage situations successfully and to minimize the risk of damage. Responding with determination and the right measures requires experience, competence, and resources – something our experienced forensic investigators have. We assist your organization in effectively preventing, detecting, and investigating various types of irregularities, as well as identifying and managing risks. Our experts have extensive experience in qualified forensic work within both the private and public sector, nationally as well as globally, and use best practice investigation methodology.

We can help you with:

Unique experience from 4 700 investigators worldwide: Our experienced investigators stationed in over 100 countries, enable us to act quickly and coordinated in investigations involving multiple countries and languages.

Capability to perform robust data analyses: Our investigators have access to forensic technology that streamlines and facilitates the analysis of large data sets, such as reconstruction of accounting records or reviewing email communications.

Advisory support for legal proceedings: Our methodologies and reports take into consideration that the cases we investigate may have legal repercussions where our findings can be used by police and prosecutors, or in other legal processes.

Overview in complex situations: We conduct investigations that help you gain a comprehensive understanding of complicated scenarios and accurately understand the situation, as well as anticipate critical developments.

Close collaboration: We work closely with you to ensure critical knowledge about operations and systems through ongoing knowledge transfer, for example, in preparation for reviewing internal controls in various processes.

Services

Prevention

We conduct background checks and Integrity Due Diligence (IDD) on business partners, suppliers, individuals, and other entities. Our background checks are scalable, ranging from general checks to more comprehensive efforts that include everything from contacting and interviewing senior executives to managing and verifying self-assessments. Thanks to our international network, we can also offer on-site checks virtually anywhere in the world.

We assist your organization in ensuring that policies and guidelines are well-designed, accessible, comprehensive, tailored, and correctly implemented with appropriate internal controls. Through our well-developed methodology for effective evaluation, we identify areas where improvements are needed in existing governance documents to meet best practices and regulatory requirements. For organizations lacking policies and guidelines, we also offer assistance in drafting customized governance documents.

In today’s constantly evolving business landscape, organizations face revolutionary technology, innovative business models, increased competition, and changing geopolitical conditions. In this transformative environment, new norms for managing risks are being shaped, making proactive identification and management of key business risks increasingly important.

We provide methods, processes, and technologies that help your organization effectively manage risks. With access to leading frameworks, experts in various risk areas, and our previous successful cases, we support you in navigating these challenges.

Detection

Many organizations rely on third parties to focus on their strategic goals and core business. However, the responsibility for services and risks related to one's own operations can never be outsourced. An increased dependence on business partners, combined with stricter requirements from authorities and other stakeholders, means increased risk for many organizations. Therefore, monitoring third-party risks and conducting follow-up checks is crucial after engaging third parties.

Public and private employers with at least 50 employees are legally required to have a whistleblower function in place. We offer a comprehensive solution for managing whistleblowing. With an independent whistleblower channel, you make it safe and secure for employees to report suspected irregularities without the risk of retaliation. This helps you identify dishonest behavior within your organization before it leads to serious harm.

Melai Lehkamo

Manager, Risk & Compliance Consulting

KPMG in Sweden

Investigation

Many business relationships are governed by complex contracts, where terms of responsibility and obligations are not always clearly defined or where practical contract compliance is not a top priority. Relying on one party's reporting in these cases can pose a risk of significant revenue loss, increased costs, and inefficient use of resources.

We offer support in reviewing the counterparty's contract compliance by applying the audit clause often included in the contract. As independent reviewers, we seek relevant facts to assess whether the contractual terms, both monetary and non-monetary, are being met and adhered to during the contract period.

Handling disputes is an inevitable byproduct of doing business, and the nature of disputes is becoming increasingly complex with much at stake. It can be very costly for all parties involved, both financially and in terms of time.

Our team can help you minimize risks at all stages of a dispute through independent advisory services. Our advisors combine extensive experience in dispute resolution with deep technical knowledge to limit potential business and reputational risks

We offer advanced digital solutions for a range of matters related to risk, investigations, and other analyses. Our expertise handle both unstructured and structured data sets, enabling rapid and cost-effective review of large data volumes. This is aimed at identifying risks, errors, or red flags in transactions, documentation, and systems. Our specific analyses cover areas such as payroll and travel expenses, supplier invoices, general ledger, bank transactions, and related-party relationships.

We support bankruptcy trustees with financial analyses, using a bankruptcy tool to efficiently process accounting data. Through this tool, we can visually present graphs and tables of financial developments and delve into specific transactions to assess the timing of insolvency, the obligation to prepare a balance sheet for liquidation purposes, compliance with accounting regulations, and identify potentially recoverable transactions. Our experienced forensic team, with backgrounds in financial auditing and expertise in accounting, ensures high-quality reviews.

Large construction and infrastructure projects are often complex, costly, and long-term, making them unpredictable and difficult to forecast. At the same time, stakeholders and decision-makers require transparency, predictability and accountability for project outcomes.

Our forensic team has extensive experience in project reviews of construction and infrastructure projects. We examine areas such as governance, decision-making, collaboration, risk assessment, goal achievement, budget and costs, procurement and contract compliance.