Miranda is a Chartered Accountant and Certified Fraud Examiner with over 11 years’ experience working in audit, management accounting, financial investigation, and forensic accounting. Prior to joining C. Lewis & Company in June 2020, Miranda worked at Smith & Williamson (now Evelyn partners) in their audit department, and as both the Finance Manager, and subsequently, as a Director in the Financial and Fraud Investigation Team at K2 Intelligence (now K2 Integrity).
In January 2022, Miranda opened, and became the Director of, the C. Lewis Middle East office, focusing on forensic accounting in the Middle East region.
As well as these claims in the Middle East region, Miranda has spent the last three years valuing and reviewing over 1,000 Covid-19 business interruption claims for large insurers.
Her professional experience includes:
- Business interruption claims, primarily power and steel losses, in Europe and the MENA region;
- Reviewing and summarising a variety of claims in a diverse, global, litigation claims portfolio;
- Audit of insurance claims held by four difference insurers in Lebanon (at the appointment of the reinsurer), following the Beirut port explosion;
- Valuing Covid-19 business interruption claims in many different industries in the UK and Ireland; subsequently, reviewing and managing a team of up to 20 people on these claims;
- Assisting in the preparation of an Expert Witness Report for the Irish Test Case for the treatment of Covid-19 claims;
- Working on three W&I claims in various jurisdictions;
- Internal audit into the controls and processes in a major energy company based in Pakistan and the Middle East;
- Internal investigation for a Middle East petrochemicals company following concerns of fraudulent transactions;
- Investigation into the collapse of a major UK retail brand involving allegations of value extraction by those in control of the company;
- Investigations in connection with bribery allegations involving the Operation Carwash corruption scandal in Brazil;
- Money laundering investigation into the movement of funds between large Eastern European banking institutions.
Professional Credentials
Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Certified Fraud Examiner
Degree
BSc Economic, Politics and International Studies (University of Warwick)
