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Florencia Schuster

Forensic Director,
KPMG LLP

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KPMG LLP
Miami, FL
Work: 305-913-3684

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Florida

Bio

Investigations, Compliance and Remediation Director


What can I do for you?

I help clients around the globe design and implement compliance programs, investigate fraud and corruption issues, including those related to the FCPA, as well as remediate their processes and controls based on investigations findings or specific needs.

My 18-year experience at KPMG gives you a cross-industry, cross-country perspective on compliance, fraud and corruption issues and how companies prevent, detect and respond to risk. I work along in-house or outside counsel in most of my projects and lead diverse teams of KPMG professionals focused on effective and cost-efficient outcomes.

Professional and Industry Experience

—When our client, a global automotive company, was dealing with a DOJ investigation on corrupt payments, they reached out to KPMG to help them remediate their processes and controls and enhance their compliance program. I led a team of multiple professionals in the US and in 5+ countries in Asia Pacific and worked on remediating 30+ affiliates along with the Company's Global Internal Controls Team and in-house and outside counsel. This project involved performing targeted gap/risk assessments, drafting policies and procedures addressing key ABC areas, enhancing systems to include automated controls that reduce the risk and providing training on designed enhancements. The ability do do remote work by engaging high quality member firms around the globe helped the client perform this highly time sensitive project during the pandemic.

—A strong bilingual investigations team came handy when our client, a multinational medical devices company, needed to investigate a high priority asset misappropriation case in its affiliate in costa Rica. The General Manager of the plant had embelezzed an uncertain amount of money from the company and engaged us to find how much and how he did it. I lead the team of investigatiors in the US and Costa Rica, performed targeted email review, data analytics and forensic accounting and uncovered an $8.1M fraud. The results were shared with the FBI, and the fraudster was prosecuted and incarcerated within a year.

—Life sciences companies need to ensure that their distributors are following their contractual obligations, specially those related to anti-bribery and anti-corruption. I led multiple distributor audits for a US based global medical device manufacturer with operations in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia among other Central and LatAm countries, with special focus on ABC risks and compliance with FCPA. The work included conducting interviews, performing data analytics, testing samples and evaluating their compliance programs.

Practice Areas

  • Anti-Corruption
  • Due Diligence Investigations
  • Forensic Accounting
  • Internal Investigations
  • Monitorship Experience
  • White Collar Crime