Benoit Legault

Successful organizations build reputations by keeping promises, respecting laws, and operating ethically to cultivate stakeholder trust. As EY Canada’s Forensics & Integrity Services leader for Québec, Benoit guides clients in protecting and restoring enterprise and financial reputation to support those goals.

As a forensic accountant, Benoit offers extensive experience leading and supporting investigations related to suspected or alleged fraud, corruption, corporate policy non-compliance, conflicts of interest and a host of other irregularities. That includes drafting reports and affidavits for legal proceedings or internal management purposes for clients in Canada and abroad. Benoit also assists clients and their legal advisors as they navigate disputes that require forensic accounting knowledge. Through his work, Benoit and his team support clients in mitigating and preventing ethical risks by building out processes and frameworks to help identify, investigate and remediate irregularities at every stage of the game.

Benoit is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) in Québec and a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). He is a CA Specialist in Investigative and Forensic Accounting Canada (CA⋅IFA) and is certified in financial forensics (CFF) with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from HEC Montréal and a Diploma in Investigative and Forensic Accounting from the University of Toronto. 

How Benoit is building a better working world

“We’re building a better working world by enabling and empowering organizations to embrace integrity, with processes and frameworks that help them do what they say, and say what they do, transparently and ethically.”

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“Fraud transforms over time. The way we prevent, identify and mitigate it must evolve, too.”