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About Us

Applying Urgency, Innovation, Specialist Industry Insights, International Best Practices, and Subject Matter Expertise

Organisational Higher Purpose

Fi-Fa-C has set its core purpose as the development of the forensic investigations and forensic auditing profession to contribute to the combating of commercial offences such as financial crimes, fraud, corruption, asset misappropriation and unethical conduct. We provide access to the forensic services profession for aspiring practitioners and subject matter experts.

Distinct Client Value Proposition

Fi-Fa-C draws on subject matter expertise and international best practices, methodologies and solutions to assist clients across the African continent with speedy and effective prevention treatment and response mechanisms to confront diverse forensic crises arising from diverse breaches of good organisational and corporate governance standards and practices, legislation, regulations and policies.

Transformation Credentials

Fi-Fa-C is a wholly black owned niche professional services provider. Embedded in Fi-Fa-C’s strategic objectives is a focus on collaborative alliances with like-minded transformed professionals and subject matter experts.

Origins of Fi-Fa-C Forensics

Fi-Fa-C Forensics originates from over 45 years of PracAdemic (Practitioner and Academic) experiences of Peter and Tshepo in law enforcement, in-house corporate forensic auditing and investigations,

fraud and corruption risk governance, and corporate governance consulting.

Origins of Fi-Fa-C Forensics

Fi-Fa-C Forensics originates from over 45 years of PracAdemic (Practitioner and Academic) experiences of Peter and Tshepo in law enforcement, in-house corporate forensic auditing and investigations, fraud and corruption risk governance, and corporate governance consulting.

Our Core Team

Our multidisciplinary and diverse core team covers a range of skills, knowledge and expertise. This includes corporate governance, risk governance, financial governance, law, corporate and law enforcement investigation, forensic auditing and accounting, internal auditing, regulation, and public administration.

About Dr. Peter Goss

Ph.D Crim. Just.

Dr. Peter Goss is our Managing Director (MD) and a leading Subject Matter Expert in corporate governance and forensic investigations. He has three decades of experience in hundreds of diverse corporate governance crisis management, forensic investigation, and forensic auditing assignments across Southern Africa.

His leadership roles include having served as a managing director and partner-in-charge of forensic services solutions in one of the world’s largest accounting and auditing firms (PwC) and in SNG in association with Protiviti Global. Peter cut his teeth as a commercial crime investigator in the Commercial Branch of the South African Police Service (SAPS) which he left as a trained Detective Inspector.

Dr. Peter is a certified Commercial Forensic Practitioner (CFP) with the Institute of Commercial Forensic Practitioners (ICFP), and a founding former Board member of the ACFE (Association of Certified Fraud Examiners) in South Africa. He has authored three books: Corporate Governance and Illicit Conduct (2017); Fraud and Corruption Risk Governance (2015); and Forensic Investigation Process (2013) and visits as a Professor of Practice in Corporate Governance and Forensic Investigations at the College of Business and Economics and Faculty of Law at the University of Johannesburg.

About Tshepo Nyatlo

BComm Int. Aud.

Tshepo is our Head of Operations and Finance and has over 17 years of experience in diverse forensic audit investigation and fraud risk governance assignments.
His former international corporate positions include serving as Associate Director (AD) in international professional services firm Control Risks, AD in the law firm Rooth and Wessels, senior manager at SNG Grant Thornton, and manager in Forensic Investigations at PwC.

Tshepo has led substantial international assignments acquiring deep insights and experience from, inter alia, a 2-year secondment in Kenya assisting PwC Kenya in the development and expansion of the Fraud Prevention Consulting practice within the East Africa market.

Coupled with serving in large multinational contexts Tshepo has led several assignments in territories across Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland, Malawi, Ethiopia, Congo Brazzaville, Ghana, Zambia, Mozambique, Sao Tome and South Sudan.

The client industries serviced by Tshepo include government and state-owned entities, non-government organisations (NGOs) and donors, FMCG, oil and gas, healthcare, telecoms and financial institutions.

About Michael Goss

LLB, Law School Grad, M.Inst.D

Michael provides our team with a balance of insights into law, legislation and policy reviews, and corporate governance drawing on multiple assignments in which he serves Boards of Directors with corporate governance frameworks and advice, evaluating the effectiveness of Boards, and developing fraud risk governance policies. His knowledge, skills and experience in forensic auditing and investigation includes assignments in the Higher Education Sector supporting statutory administration interventions for ailing organisations, corruption in State-Owned Entities (SOEs), investigating senior management fraud in mid-tier banking, and remediating governance control breaches in medical schemes.

About Emma Morudi

BAdmin. (Public Admin.)

Emma brings the diversity of her four years of academic studies in public management to the fore in our team. She is a forensic investigation and corporate governance consultant working directly with our leading subject matter experts. Her experience includes investigating workplace fraud and syndicate fraud, fraud by senior management, and ethical dilemmas. She has deep subject matter knowledge, skills, and experience in the development of corporate governance instruments such as Board charters and policies, and fraud prevention policies.

Agile, highly experienced, and qualified staffing resource pool

We staff our client assignments from a hand-picked core pool of highly experienced and qualified manpower resources which include retired subject matter experts and practicing forensic investigation project managers. These colleagues have multi-disciplinary competencies in the fields of business management, accounting, law, investigations, law enforcement, business process, and diverse industry-specific insights. Alongside this, we develop and mentor graduates from academic institutions, education and training institutes and from professional associations directly engaged in our field of application.