Christian Nicholls

Associate Director at Forensic Risk Alliance (FRA), London, United Kingdom
Nationality: United Kingdom
Course: Accounting, Controls and Analytics

Christian Nicholls is an Associate Director at Forensic Risk Alliance (FRA), in the Forensic Accounting Team. He has over ten years’ experience in external audit and forensic accounting, including investigations, litigations, due diligence, compliance reviews and export control. Christian is based in the London office and also spent three years in the Paris office.

At FRA, Christian has led teams performing forensic accounting structured data analysis, involving large volumes of financial data and liaising with international legal teams. He supported a multi-year, multi-national forensic accounting and eDiscovery review, reporting to investigative authorities in the UK, France and US. He also held key roles on an investigation into alleged breaches of UK export control regulations, a bribery and corruption compliance transformation project for a multinational technology company, an internal investigation for a military vehicle manufacturer, and a risk assessment for a dental product manufacturer.

Prior to joining FRA, Christian spent three years at Ernst & Young (EY) in their Fraud Investigations and Disputes Services department, where he trained as a chartered accountant and supported investigations related to asset tracing, insider trading, bribery, and sanctions. He also worked on a number of external audit engagements for technology, media & telecommunications, products and services, and mining and metals clients, and produced risk advisory materials for a Tier 1 global bank.

Christian holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics from University of Exeter and is a Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.