Jonathan Zdimal

Jon is a Partner in KPMG’s Forensic Practice based in Washington D.C. He is a Certified Public Accountant and possesses over 20 years of forensic accounting and audit-related experience. His primary area of concentration centers on complex cross-border corporate investigations with particular emphasis in the areas of financial reporting investigations, bribery and corruption, acquisitions, sanctions, product diversion, asset misappropriation, procurement fraud and other forms of corporate/employee misconduct.

He provides global forensic accounting services to audit committees, compliance and legal officers, internal audit, corporate management teams and law firms in context of complex corporate investigations, third party audits, reputational and ownership screening, acquisition diligence, data analytics, global risk assessments, process and internal control reviews and related subject matter trainings.

Jon has substantive global experience across a variety of segments – including financial services, telecommunications, aerospace and defense, consumer products, retail, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, medical device, energy, NGO, automotive, global, retail, software and hospitality and entertainment. Jon has investigative experience around the globe with particular emphasis in Russia, China and India.

Professional and industry experience

Jonathan has significant experience leading:

• Jon has led several matters involving OFAC sanctions – including, transactional classifications, flow of funds analysis, sanctioned party screening, “ability-to-pay” analysis and acquisition diligence.
• Jon has led investigations into alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other local country bribery statutes for a variety of public and private global organizations with operations spanning the South American, European, Middle Eastern, African, Russian and Asian markets – including matters brought before the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, U.S. Department of Justice, U.K. Serious Fraud Office and the World Bank.
• Jon has led a number of complex financial reporting and cost accounting-related investigations across a variety of areas, including: complex multiple element contracts, fixed priced and percentage-of-completion contracts, cost accounting and cost allocations, distributor channel stuffing schematics, bill-and-hold, incurred-but-not-reported (IBNR) reserves, general reserves, rebate accounting, improper capitalization of expenses, manipulation of debt covenant calculations, and misleading disclosures in public filings.

Jon holds a BS in accounting from the University of Delaware. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania.