Ben Walter is an Associate Director in FRA’s London office in the Forensic Accounting team.
Ben has over eight years of experience in forensic accounting and external audit, during which he has worked on complex cross-border cases involving fraud and corruption, regulatory and internal investigation, disgorgement and fine calculations, litigation and forensic due diligence. He has worked across a variety of industries including energy and natural resources, automotive, aerospace, IT and healthcare.
Recently, Ben has worked on disgorgement and fine calculation analysis for Petrofac, including presentations to the SFO, in the lead up to the company’s £77 million settlement. He has supported a multinational IT service and consulting company investigate allegations of accounting misstatements in its US subsidiaries, and Ben has assisted a global medical device manufacturer headquartered in India with a time-sensitive investigation into allegations of bribery and misconduct in its Turkish subsidiary.
Ben has also recently provided expert forensic support to a large oil and gas company in a $2 billion litigation, involving a highly complex damages calculation and modelling a number of different scenarios based on the legal arguments.
Ben was part of the FRA team supporting Airbus in a multi-year forensic accounting and eDiscovery review within the context of the company’s multinational investigation, reporting to investigative authorities in the UK, US and France and culminating in its landmark €3.6 billion global settlement. As part of this review, Ben led teams performing forensic accounting analysis of large volumes of financial data and liaised regularly with legal teams across multiple jurisdictions.
Prior to joining FRA in 2018, Ben worked in the Forensic Investigations and Disputes practice at Deloitte in London and, prior to that, in the Corporate Audit team at Deloitte in Bristol.
Ben is a qualified chartered accountant (ICAEW) and has a bachelor’s degree in Geography from the University of Bristol.