Associate, Disputes and Investigations

Overview

About Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is a global consulting firm with over 10,000 professionals in more than 40 countries. We take a hands-on approach to solving clients' problems and helping them reach their potential. Our culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who positively impact clients and shape the industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work—guided by A&M's core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity—drive our people’s experience at A&M.

The Team

Our Disputes and Investigations practice is growing and highly regarded in the industry. We deliver a wide array of solutions to contentious situations by drawing on the deep skills and experiences of our professionals. We are recognized by Global Arbitration Review as a leading firm of independent experts for arbitration and are regarded as a top firm by Who’s Who Legal based on the number of experts globally.

Our clients include leading insurance companies, banks, law firms, private equity firms, and large corporations.

At A&M you will have the opportunity to work with a diverse team of supportive professionals who share knowledge and industry experience. Our practice comprises professionals from a wide range of backgrounds who bring deep expertise in investigations, expert-witness reports and testimony, and forensic technology services. We foster an inclusive developmental environment with opportunities to learn and grow, supported by a culture of openness, entrepreneurial thinking, and high-quality standards.

We strive to minimize bureaucracy in favor of recognizing our team through advancement opportunities and a performance-based reward structure.

You will collaborate closely with a high-performing team to help financial market clients navigate regulatory risks and strengthen risk management capabilities. You will contribute to engagements involving litigation and regulatory investigations across swap dealer, broker-dealer, and consumer banking matters, and you will support proactive compliance advisory services. You will expand your knowledge of financial market participants, their business strategies, regulatory obligations, and the data and technology ecosystems that power their operations, including third-party vendor platforms.

This role provides exposure to the lifecycle of major litigation and investigative matters at global financial institutions, often in collaboration with international law firms.

As an Associate in our Disputes and Investigations practice
, you will contribute to high-impact risk and compliance engagements by analyzing policies, procedures, controls, and data to generate insights that support client objectives. You will support engagements from the start by gathering, tracking, and organizing project artifacts, and you will interpret regulatory requirements and assess clients’ existing frameworks, controls, compliance implementations, and governance routines. When data is involved, you will connect business context to data understanding, gaining hands-on exposure to client operations, data models, and sandbox environments where you will perform analytics— including opportunities to apply artificial intelligence — to deliver innovative, high-impact solutions for large financial market clients.

Some main responsibilities are:

• Support client teams with project management and governance activities
• Analyze client documentation and synthesize insights aligned to project objectives
• Research global regulatory specifications and produce clear, simplified summaries
• Gather industry insights to assist with peer-practices assessments and benchmarking
• Perform high-level data queries on databases with familiarity of business intelligence tools
• Ingest, analyze, and summarize client data to identify trends and financial impacts
• Develop and refine client reports and polished presentations
• Manage multiple client commitments while ensuring high-quality deliverables
• Perform quality control reviews of work products
• Support client teams in coordinating and conducting virtual or in-person meetings
• Communicate proactively and present effectively…