Victor Padilla

Victor Padilla, CFE, has more than 15 years of experience in forensic accounting investigations, anti-corruption risk assessments, fraud detection, damages calculations, shareholder disputes, litigation consulting and advanced data analytics. Law firms and in-house legal counsels have retained him to work on a broad array of financial investigations involving allegations of bribery, inventory fraud, counterfeited checks, improper financial statements, billing schemes, vendor fraud, employee fraud, and payroll schemes. Victor has led forensic investigations and compliance assessments, including ones related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in the U.S.A., Mexico, Canada, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil.

Due to his language skills and cultural fluency, Victor is an experienced forensic accounting professional who has overseen every aspect of a domestic internal or an international investigation in English and Spanish, including the analysis of financial books and records, forensic data analysis, review of e-mails, interviews, and writing reports that are suitable for use in court.

His experience includes managing forensic data analytics teams and overseeing the process of acquiring, extracting, cleansing, converting and applying statistical analysis techniques to query large volumes of transactional data. The result is the capability of efficiently processing hundreds of millions of records and to present complex data issues in an understandable manner.

Victor is a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), an affiliate member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), a member of the Forensic and Valuation Services (FVS) Section of the AICPA. He earned a Master of Science of Science in accounting (MSA) from the University of Texas at Dallas and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Dallas. Victor speaks English and Spanish.