Justin Cooper joins Grant Thornton as partner in forensics wing

The UK department of Grant Thornton has strengthened its forensics providing with the appointment of Justin Cooper. Arriving as a accomplice, he’ll head up the staff serving to shoppers with fraud and compliance analytics.

Will Davies, the top of forensic and investigation companies at Grant Thornton UK, mentioned, “We’re thrilled to welcome Justin to the agency and our forensics staff, to guide our information analytics providing. Justin has huge expertise advising shoppers on how greatest to make use of their information to achieve insights, implement course of change and inform and information choice making. He shall be invaluable in additional constructing our capabilities and enhancing the standard and breadth of our information analytics providing to shoppers.”

On his arrival at Grant Thornton, Cooper takes management of the agency’s forensics information analytics staff. His main space of focus shall be in fraud and compliance analytics together with transaction screening, know your buyer (KYC) evaluation, compliance and investigations. He may also be increasing the agency’s providing round company information analytics together with working capital discount, buyer analytics, price discount and profitability evaluation. 

The position will see Cooper draw on greater than 20 years of expertise advising shoppers throughout a variety of sectors together with retail, monetary companies, actual property, manufacturing and oil and gasoline. He specialises in utilizing information to unravel complicated enterprise issues via information analytics, modelling and visualisations, and has in depth expertise in large-scale information mining. 

Earlier than becoming a member of Grant Thornton, Cooper was information analytics lead for the EMEA area at Charles River Associates. The prior seven years noticed Cooper work with Alvarez & Marsal, the place he was most lately a senior director – main the European information analytics staff, growing merchandise and go to market technique throughout all service strains and sectors. He additionally spent eight years with AlixPartners, the place he was a director.

Commenting on his newest appointment, Cooper added, “I’m excited to be becoming a member of Grant Thornton’s forensics staff. Everybody has been so welcoming and I’m wanting ahead to working with such a powerful group of people. In my position, I shall be specializing in increasing the agency’s information analytics functionality inside forensics and constructing a market main staff to help shoppers in utilizing information to generate insights and overcome challenges.”