Biography
Seung-ho Jeong is a Director in FRA’s Korea office. He has more than nine years of experience in fraud investigations and forensic accounting, external financial statement audit, internal audit.
Jeong specializes in investigations involving fraud, misconduct, and noncompliance with established company policies. He is highly skilled in analysing audit procedures, company accounting procedures, client control environments, and general ledger data to assist in the evaluation of exposure to fraudulent financial reporting. He has extensive experience providing forensic accounting services across numerous industries including manufacturing, construction, IT and retail.
Prior to FRA, Jeong started his early career in the Audit team of Ernst & Young in Korea and was responsible for an audit for major domestic and foreign-invested companies. He then worked in the Accounting Analysis team of the Anti-Corruption Coordination & External Affairs Division of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office(SPO) and then worked in the forensic teams of KPMG in Korea. Also, he worked as internal auditor at the Republic of Korea’s No. 1 Bad Bank (UAMCO).
At KPMG and SPO, he specialized in forensic accounting and accounting analysis, tracking money flows(digital forensic investigations). This included violations of the Special Act on the Aggravated Punishment, of Specific Economic Crimes by major Korean companies, as well as corruption and embezzlement involving members of the Diet. He instructed the anti-corruption investigators and accounting analysis to new prosecutors at the Institute of Justice.
Jeong has a bachelor’s in Economics (main major) and Business administration (minor major) from the Soongsil University. He is a member of the Korean Institute of Certified Public Accountants (CPA).
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