Digital Forensics, Technology Graduate Scheme 2024

FTI Consulting is the world’s leading expert-driven consulting firm. Over the last 40 years, FTI Consulting experts have served as the trusted advisor to Fortune 500 companies and the world’s leading law and private equity firms when they are facing their greatest opportunities and challenges. Our strong performance and continued success are a direct reflection of the ambition, energy, and commitment of our talented professionals across the globe to make a positive impact for our clients and communities.  

At FTI Consulting, you’ll be inspired and empowered to make an impact on headline matters that change history. Working side by side with the world’s leading experts in your field, you’ll be surrounded by an open collaborative culture that embraces diversity, recognition, professional development and most importantly, you.  

There’s never been a more exciting time to join FTI Consulting and this is where you will do the most exciting and fulfilling work of your career.   

Are you ready to make an impact? 

About the role 

Our Technology practice uses our people and our technology to help clients identify, collect, analyse, and review electronic documents and data to locate the key evidence. Our team of over 500 professionals around the world includes e-discovery experts, software developers, and forensic specialists. They’re industry leaders and have been involved in some of the largest e-discovery matters of the past decade, which means they have the experience to help clients whatever their challenges. 

What you’ll do

This Analyst position sits in the Digital Forensics and Investigations team, part of the Technology practice of FTI Consulting.

As part of the London based team, in this role you will be trained in delivering a range of digital forensics services to clients, including data collection, data extraction and forensic analysis.

Key responsibilities

You will be part of a growing team of digital forensics professionals responsible for delivering computer forensics services to our clients, including:

• Liaise with clients and senior staff to manage work and meet client requests
• Secure and preserve electronic evidence to forensic standards, on-site at client premises around the UK and abroad
• Utilise industry standard and bespoke software to access, extract and handle data from phones, mobile devices, computers and storage media
• Perform forensic analysis and reporting for a wide range of digital devices under supervision of senior staff
• Research and develop custom solutions as required on a case by case basis
• Be customer-service-oriented to meet client deadlines, including working out of business hours when necessary
• Travel as required to ensure effective management of case activities, which may be at short notice.

How you'll grow

Analysts will experience a broad range of clients, technologies, business problems, bespoke solutions and working environments. Throughout the role, Analysts will have opportunities to manage sections of projects, develop custom solutions and build client relationships.

You will work with your Performance Coach on a development and training plan to ensure experience across the digital forensic lifecycle to support you in understanding the procedures utilized at FTI.

You may also have the opportunity to travel as part of projects or secondments, most commonly to our clients’ offices in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

The Digital Forensics team sits within our wider Technology practice, alongside our eDiscovery and Information Governance teams. Collaboration across these teams is critical to the success of many of our matters, which require cross-team collaboration in order to meet our clients expectations. We would expect that successful candidates demonstrate a willingness and capacity to develop skills that are transferable across our teams, and support this through a mixture of internal and external training courses, on-the-job exposure to new areas, and (where appropriate for the individual) a temporary rotational scheme through different practice teams.

What you will need to succeed

Education and qualifications

• Minimum 2:1 degree in forensic computing or a technology, criminal or legal-focused subject, or equivalent experience. 

Skills and competencies

• Enthusiasm for technology and an interest in technical developments
• Self-developer that demonstrates an ability to solve complex problems with well thought out solutions
• Ability to manage time and prioritise tasks effectively
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and support the team’s goals
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment while handling multiple tasks through to completion
• Ability to communicate effectively in a client facing role
• Flexible with working hours and ability to work in a cross-functional team

Experience

Essential:

• Familiarity with forensic principles and technologies
• A keen interest in forensic practices and protocols
• Familiarity with personal computer and server hardware, operating systems, and software

Desirable:

• Experience working in a computer forensics, e-Discovery or technology related role or university project
• Knowledge of forensic imaging and analysis tools such as Encase, Cellebrite or X-Ways
• A good understanding of transact SQL and relational databases
• Knowledge of data manipulation, data conversion, and data analysis activities in a SQL database and MS Access
• Familiarity with email server software (Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes)
• Knowledge of programming or scripting (Python, Java, C#, Visual Basic, PowerShell)