Yulia Pleskanovskaya is a senior director in K2 Integrity’s Investigations and Disputes practice. With more than 12 years of experience in professional services, Yulia has developed expertise across a range of industries including mining, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, banking, and financial services. With a focus on forensic and dispute advisory services, she conducts sensitive investigations into financial misconduct, fraud, and anti-bribery and corruption incidents. Yulia has routinely been involved in helping multinational companies investigate alleged violations of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and UK Bribery Act; and advising corporations on compliance risk and dealing with relevant regulators, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (SFSA).
Prior to joining K2 Integrity, Yulia was an associate director in Forensic Risk Alliance’s forensic accounting practice, where she worked with clients to conduct complex, multijurisdictional investigations into anti money-laundering (AML) investigations, commercial dispute investigations, debt reviews, and sanction compliance assessments. In a representative engagement, Yulia assisted with a money-laundry investigation for a major European bank, performing in-depth analysis of the client’s records within multiple systems, comprising both structured and unstructured client and transactional data, to identify clients which were omitted from the required KYC process.
Before her time at Forensic Risk Alliance, Yulia worked across various practices at KPMG, including Internal and Private Enterprise Audit practices, and Forensic Services in Sydney, Moscow, and London. As a manager at KPMG’s Disputes Advisory Services practice, Yulia worked with clients ranging from major international corporations to ultra-high-net-worth individuals, assisting with fraud investigations, shareholder disputes, compliance monitorships and asset valuations.
Yulia holds an M.Accg. in accounting from Macquarie University in Sydney and a B.S. in sociology from Moscow State University. She is a member of Certified Professional Accountants (CPA) Australia and an accredited Counter Fraud Specialist. Yulia is fluent in Russian.