Leading global financial crime team experts, Julie Beesley and Dr Graham Dillon, have joined Deloitte’s forensic practice, reinforcing the firm’s reputation as the pre-eminent forensic practice in Australia.
 
Deloitte Forensic lead partner Tim Phillipps said Forensic practice has grown over the last year from 12 to 15 partners, and over 100 staff.

“Deloitte Forensic practice is the largest in terms of full-time staff and the only fully integrated and full service forensic practice in Australia,” Tim said.

“Our practice has grown substantially by 60% per annum over the last three years - 146% growth in revenue in the last year.

“Similarly, Deloitte is the recognised market leader in AML and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigations for global and local corporates, consulting to all major banks, financial institutions and major law firms in Australia, serving more than 40 Top 100 listed companies.”

Deloitte AML lead partner Chris Cass said the global experience Julie and Graham bring with them will enhance and compliment the financial crime team’s depth of expertise and offerings.

“The mix of international and local experience of our Deloitte financial crime team allows us to provide robust solutions for Australian clients that have been proven on the international stage,” Mr Cass said.

Formerly with KPMG, new partner Julie Beesley has wide-ranging experience over 16 years in more than 20 countries, principally London, New York, Zurich and Sydney.

Julie headed KPMG’s Switzerland regulatory and compliance group and specialises in fraud, anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing.
          
She is perhaps best known for her work for a number of Swiss and foreign-owned subsidiaries banks on compliance matters.  She was also part of the US Volker commission team investigating Swiss dormant bank accounts of victims of Nazi persecution.

Dr Graham Dillon, a chartered physicist and former senior scientist at the Atomic Weapons Establishment in the United Kingdom, is probably best known in professional services industry for his pioneering counter- financial crime and technology advisory work for the Wolfsberg Group of banks, and the UK Joint Money Laundering Steering Group.

The Wolfsberg Group is an association of twelve global private banks formed in 2000 to develop financial services industry standards, and related products for Know Your Customer, Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing policies.

Graham’s professional services career includes a Specialist Advisor role in 2003-4 on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing for Deloitte in London, as well as a similar role within the Compliance team at UBS AG in Zurich.

Deloitte financial crime team - fast facts

• Deloitte is the recognised market leader in AML and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigations for global and Australian corporates
• Deloitte AML consults to all Australia’s major banks, financial institutions and major law firms in Australia, serving more than 40 Top 100 listed companies
• by combining specialist fraud skills with innovative ebusiness technology, Deloitte’s Forensic practice has built a global client base
• Deloitte Forensic’s whistle blowing service using a 24/7 call centre supported by state of the art technology (SleepWorks™) is the only one of its kind in Australia and has been invaluable at assisting corporations better manage their corruption, fraud and integrity risks
• Deloitte’s Anti-Money Laundering (AML) team has been active in this specialist field for 14 years. This helps us provide our clients with significant insight into the changing AML and counter terrorism financing (CTF) landscape in Australia and throughout the Asia-Pacific region
• Deloitte offers a range of AML services to clients. These range from assessing exactly what is needed to implement a risk based approach through to conducting risk assessments, customer remediation and policy reviews
• Deloitte has developed AMLcheck™ an easy to use and cost effective online compliance tool designed to help small and medium sized businesses meet their AML/CTF obligations. Developed in Australia in collaboration with leading industry players, this innovative pay-as-you-go compliance solution has already been launched in Hong Kong and Singapore with additional global markets to follow in 2006/7.