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Clay H Roberts

Senior Manager, Forensic & Integrity Services, Ernst & Young LLP

Passionate about solving complex financial crime compliance risks, bringing efficiency to processes, and developing EY team members through constant mentoring

Clay is a senior manager in the Forensic & Integrity Services practice at Ernst & Young LLP and is based in New York. He has over 13 years of experience assisting clients and their counsel with managing and remediating their anti-money laundering, sanctions and fraud compliance risks. Clay’s objective is to protect his clients’ corporate reputation and drive their competitive advantage through integrated and effective risk management strategies, processes and controls.

He has led global project teams while working with counsel in sensitive and high-profile environments, communicating directly with various regulators and law enforcement agencies. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner and a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist.

How Clay is building a better working world

To me, building a better working world entails delivering solutions to our clients while growing and developing our EY professionals. I strive to build that world through passion: passion for solving problems; passion for our clients’ business, and, most importantly, passion for inspiring my teammates to do the best work of their careers.

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