Senior Director, Risk Advisory, Legal Technology & Data Analytics (eDiscovery)

Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth. Our eDiscovery team sits within the Risk Advisory practice which is one of six practices focused on client delivery services across the Firm. Practice Overview The eDiscovery practice is commonly engaged to assist financial investigations, litigations and disputes, turnaround and process improvement engagements, and other critical business issues.

The eDiscovery team specialises in designing and implementing processes that help clients reduce their data and review volumes. Our professionals provide workflow design and strategy for keyword search, workflow assignment setup, content analytics, conceptual search/clustering, and predictive coding, and work with clients to efficiently extract and effectively analyse client data. We help businesses, government entities and law firms to address their most complex and pressing concerns and make well informed decisions, using some of the most advanced technology, tools and techniques.

The team’s consulting experience involves large, diverse, and often incomplete data sets across client enterprises including email, servers, cloud storage, social media, mobile devices, instant messaging and collaboration tools. The team collaborates with cybersecurity, computer forensics, data analytics and investigatory experts to assess and respond to both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of problems.

Your role will involve working collaboratively with and learning from our diverse and knowledgeable team that has a wealth of experience in delivering excellent service to our clients. Why Join Ankura We can support and develop individuals who aspire to be an expert. Vast opportunities for career development, with formal development process, training programmes and internal e-learning training platform, Ankura Academy.

Work with leading experts in an established leading global consultancy. Work in a collaborative environment, where our professionals have the freedom to innovate which promotes curiosity, learning and communication. Role Overview As a Senior Director, you will be responsible for driving new solutions, working on complex customer engagements, and operating as a subject matter expert in the eDiscovery arena.

You will manage and support clients on a variety of eDiscovery engagements as well as take a leading operational role in managing and supporting our eDiscovery project managers and EDRM processes. This role is based in our Hong Kong office. Responsibilities Focus on delivering high quality data preparation and processing capabilities as part of our holistic eDiscovery offering Take ownership of our requirement to deliver high volume data processing, while maintaining timely delivery schedules and error free results Perform and manage multiple concurrent engagements, while ensuring quality and internal/external customer service is of the highest level Maintain and develop our standard operation procedures, data intake, and data processing workflows Continually assess the suitability of existing and emerging technology, in order to complement and/or replace as required Maintain a current understanding of e-commerce data formats and how best to prepare / process these for legal review Advise clients regarding the efficient use of concept clustering, near duplicate identification, email threading, and assisted review (predictive coding) within Relativity Become proficient in Ankura’s proprietary technology which uses Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Specific general managerial tasks include: Manage the finances of each engagement including developing, documenting, and tracking project budgets, adjusting budgets as appropriate, communicating changes in budgets internally and to the client, and managing the revenue forecasting and invoicing process Manage risk throughout engagement by evaluating quality control measures and documentation throughout engagement, strategizing to fix mistakes, communicating challe