2026 Industry Placement | Forensic Investigations, London in United Kingdom, England, London at FTI Consulting

Who We Are  

FTI Consulting is the leading global expert firm for organizations facing crisis and transformation. We work with many of the world’s top multinational corporations, law firms, banks and private equity firms on their most important issues to deliver impact that makes a difference. From resolving disputes, navigating crises, managing risk and optimizing performance, our teams respond rapidly to dynamic and complex situations.  

At FTI Consulting, you’ll work side-by side with leaders who have shaped history, helping solve the biggest challenges making headlines today. From day one, you’ll be an integral part of a focused team where you can make a real impact. You’ll be surrounded by an open, collaborative culture that embraces diversity, recognition, professional development and, most importantly, you.

Are you ready to make your impact?

About the Role

The Forensic Investigations team at FTI Consulting is an internationally recognised leader in investigation services to the business and legal community.
We sit within FTI Consulting’s Forensic and Litigation Consulting segment and work collaboratively with a range of teams including business intelligence, data analytics and computer forensics to undertake investigations involving corporate fraud, whistle-blowing, tracing of assets, and bribery and corruption allegations. 

We work closely with law firms, banks, regulatory bodies and companies in the UK and around the world in a wide range of industries. We support our clients through every step of an investigation, from responding to an incident to uncovering critical facts, communicating with regulators and engaging in remediation efforts.

The projects we work on require us to address issues which often have a critical impact on businesses.

We aim to answer questions such as:

• Who authorised the transaction?
• What was the chronology of events?
• When did the losses commence?
• Where did the monies or assets go?
• Why didn’t anyone spot the problem earlier?
• How does the company ensure it does not happen again?

What You’ll Do

As an placement year student in the Forensic Investigations team, you will be exposed to a broad range of forensic accounting and investigative work from day one.
The kind of work you do will be project-specific, but will often fall under one of the following:

• conducting investigative research into companies and individuals, either in preparation for or as part of project work;
• performing a detailed review and analysis of an entity’s financial records (e.g. general ledger extracts, underlying financial records such as invoices and bank statements, and financial statements);
• recording, summarising and explaining your analysis in rigorously maintained working papers;
• reviewing an entity’s internal and external communications to identify patterns and corroborate the findings from your detailed analysis;
• summarising your findings for team members orally or in emails, memoranda, presentations or reports;
• attending internal project meetings and potentially those with clients and their internal and external legal advisers, and taking detailed notes; and
• assisting with research for new opportunities and preparing proposals to win them.

How You Will Grow

You will have the opportunity to apply your skills and intelligence to real-world financial and business issues which will help develop you into an industry-expert consultant. You will collaborate with team members on project design, perform research and develop insights and conclusions.

We can also offer you:

• access to our in-house learning and development programme;
• the chance to be part of interesting and stimulating projects that will develop your technical and professional capabilities; and
• in some cases, the opportunity to work on offsite assignments, which may include trips abroad, and/or in collaboration with other members of our global team.