Founding semester · Spring 2027
Every major consulting firm runs a risk practice. Its teams investigate fraud, test the models banks rely on, value the damages in lawsuits and advise clients on what to do next. We're a new student club that helps you find these roles, learn the work and prepare for the interviews.
What we cover
Our workshops, speakers and interview prep rotate through these four areas.
When a company's numbers don't add up, forensic teams find out why. Trace fraud and money laundering through millions of transactions, find the controls that failed, and build the evidence, in cases as large as Wirecard's €1.9 billion in cash that never existed.
Fits CS, AEM, Economics, Government
A spreadsheet error in a JPMorgan risk model understated the risk behind a $6 billion trading loss. Build and test the models banks use to lend and trade, along with the checks meant to catch errors like that one.
Fits CS, ORIE, Statistics, Economics
When one company sues another, economists put a dollar figure on the damage. Build the models behind that number from large datasets of sales and prices, in cases as large as Oracle's $8.8 billion claim against Google.
Fits Economics, AEM, CS
Help a client decide what to do about a risk: whether to enter a market, how to rebuild after a fraud, which processes and controls to redesign. Then back the recommendation with the analysis.
Fits Economics, AEM, Government, CS
Why it's worth a look
Risk work sits inside each of the Big 4 and is central to firms like Kroll, FTI and Ankura. The skills you build carry from one firm to the next.
Analysts come from Computer Science, Economics, AEM, Government and Engineering. What matters is working carefully with data and explaining what you found.
Most consulting-minded students only apply to strategy roles. Risk practices recruit on their own tracks, and many strong candidates never hear about them.
Firms with risk practices include
Deloitte · PwC · EY · KPMG · Protiviti · Guidehouse · Ankura · FTI Consulting · Kroll · Alvarez & Marsal
Named for information only. No firm sponsors or endorses this club.
What we do
Case, behavioral and technical practice built for risk roles, including investigation-style cases.
Hands-on sessions on real skills: tracing a fraud, reviewing suspicious transactions, testing a model.
Practitioners and recent graduates explain what the work is like and how they got hired.
Teams work a realistic case and present their findings to judges from the field.
FAQ
No. We start from the basics, and most members will be new to this work.
Yes. Risk interviews use the same case and teamwork skills, so you can prepare for both at once.
Come to whatever interests you. Most events run about an hour.
Not yet. We're student-run, in our founding semester, and plan to register with Cornell's Campus Activities office.
