
Biography
Lottie is a Senior Associate in our Forensic Accounting team with over five years of experience in accounting and external audit.
Lottie’s experience at FRA includes:
- Supporting a multi-year forensic accounting and eDiscovery review within the context of the company’s multinational investigation, reporting to four investigative authorities: UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the US Department of State (DOS) and French Parquet National Financier (PNF). Lottie supported workstreams to analyze large volumes of financial data and worked collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team of internal and external colleagues to support corporate and regulatory objectives.
- Supporting an internal investigation into improper accounting where material misstatements were identified in the company balance sheet. Lottie provided recommendations to the company based on findings from the review of accounts, interviews with the accounting team, and assessment of the control environment.
- Providing forensic accounting support on gain and ability to pay calculations related to a settlement between an oil and gas company and the PNF. She has also worked on anti-bribery and corruption cases evaluating internal control environments and global compliance for a multinational company.
- Assisting external counsel in their support of the US Department of Justice (DOJ) "KleptoCapture" Taskforce working to identify and investigate assets belonging to those associated with the Russian regime. The review required the analysis of large volumes of data to identify transactions indicative of potential sanctions breaches related to over 800 connected individuals and entities.
Prior to joining FRA, Lottie achieved her Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA ICAEW) qualification at Deloitte while working in external audit. In her three years at Deloitte, she managed audit teams for audits of companies in the real estate, retail and entertainment industries with exposure to IFRS and UKGAAP reporting.
Lottie has also completed her Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) qualification and has a bachelor’s (hons) degree in Economics & Finance from the University of Southampton.