PwC
Associate to Forensic
Astana, Kazakhstan (city only)
Full-time
First seen by offpeak October 23, 2026
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Job Description & Summary
At PwC, our people in forensic services focus on identifying and preventing fraudulent activities, conducting investigations, and maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements. Individuals in this field play a crucial role in safeguarding organisations against financial crimes and maintaining ethical business practices.In fraud, investigations and regulatory enforcement at PwC, you will focus on identifying and preventing fraudulent activities, conducting investigations, and confirming compliance with regulatory requirements. You will play a crucial role in safeguarding organisations against financial crimes and maintaining ethical business practices.
Driven by curiosity, you are a reliable, contributing member of a team. In our fast-paced environment, you are expected to adapt to working with a variety of clients and team members, each presenting varying challenges and scope. Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. You are expected to take ownership and consistently deliver quality work that drives value for our clients and success as a team. As you navigate through the Firm, you build a brand for yourself, opening doors to more opportunities.
Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
- Apply a learning mindset and take ownership for your own development.
- Appreciate diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
- Adopt habits to sustain high performance and develop your potential.
- Actively listen, ask questions to check understanding, and clearly express ideas.
- Seek, reflect, act on, and give feedback.
- Gather information from a range of sources to analyse facts and discern patterns.
- Commit to understanding how the business works and building commercial awareness.
- Learn and apply professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), uphold the Firm's code of conduct and independence requirements.
A career in our Forensic services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients understand where they might have vulnerabilities and develop solutions to manage the risks involved. We prevent, respond to and remediate a wide range of business threats, risks and complex issues. Our forensic specialists provide solutions and support for clients dealing with regulatory and crisis situations. As part of the team, you’ll help provide support to our clients who wish to investigate potential financial crime, support clients responding to regulatory enquiries, deal with cybersecurity breaches and provide expert advice and opinions in legal proceedings.
Join the best professional services company and get exposed to the world of Forensic developing your skill set in:
- Fraud investigations
- AML and Sanctions
- Corporate intelligence
- Fraud risk consulting
What you'll do
- Participate in investigations of different types of targets, transactions, incidents across various industries and jurisdictions by performing background checks, and financial and business operations analysis
- Assist with AML, sanctions, anticorruption assessments and developing of improvement procedures
- Prepare various types of reports
- Assist with performing forensic interviews
- Execute administrative functions: filing documents, drafting contracts, etc.
Desired Knowledge, Skills
The ideal candidates should have:
- Higher Education Accounting/Finance/Economics
- Proficient PC knowledge, Word, Excel, Power Point
- Intellectual curiosity and ability for non-standard thinking
- Commitment to quality and attention to details
- Knowledge of basics of accounting and financial statements
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in Russian and English
- Strong communication and team working skills
- Ability to work full time
- Work experience is not required, but would be a plus