Description
Investigate and analyze financial records to detect, quantify, and document fraud and other financial misconduct; reconstruct transactions, trace assets, and support litigation. Advise on anti-fraud controls, evidence handling, and systems that ensure reliable financial and compliance data.
- • Analyze ownership, related-party relationships, and off–balance-sheet arrangements to uncover concealment.
- • Coordinate with digital forensics to collect and analyze ESI, emails, and metadata relevant to financial schemes.
- • Prepare detailed investigative reports, exhibits, and timelines documenting findings.
- • Brief management, counsel, insurers, and regulators on investigative results and recovery options.
- • Collect and analyze financial and electronic data to detect fraud, misconduct, and control breakdowns.
- • Examine accounting systems and transaction flows to identify manipulation and concealment techniques.
- • Lead forensic engagements and define scope, objectives, and procedures.
- • Confer with executives, legal counsel, and law enforcement on case strategy and regulatory issues.
- • Evaluate financial and IT systems; recommend anti-fraud controls and data-integrity safeguards.
- • Verify existence of assets and reconcile cash, receivables, securities, and disbursements to source documents.
- • Review records and conduct interviews to corroborate transactions and assess compliance.
- • Analyze books and financial statements to isolate unusual entries and reconstruct accurate balances.
- • Reconstruct and propose correcting entries to unwind fraudulent postings.
- • Trace and reconcile funds through bank, credit, and vendor accounts to follow the money.
- • Investigate inventory shrinkage, phantom stock, and asset misappropriation.
- • Analyze trends and ratios to identify red flags and quantify losses or damages.
- • Prepare affidavits, declarations, or proof-of-loss statements for insurers and courts.
- • Extract, transform, and document data from ERPs and other sources using forensic tools.
- • Investigate payroll for ghost employees, falsified hours, and benefits abuse.
- • Conduct on-site or remote investigations; preserve and review evidence under chain-of-custody protocols.
- • Quantify economic damages, lost profits, and unjust enrichment for disputes.
- • Advise on fraud risk management, whistleblower response, and remediation plans.
- • Direct case teams in evidence collection, documentation, and workpaper management.
- • Perform post-incident control reviews and recommend remediation to prevent recurrence.
- • Prepare visualizations and summaries for presentations, depositions, and trial.
- • Review invoices and vendor master data to detect shell companies, duplicates, and kickbacks.
- • Support AML and sanctions investigations; review KYC files and analyze suspicious activity.
- • Support anti-bribery and corruption inquiries, including testing gifts, travel, and third-party payments.
- • Assist counsel with discovery and expert testimony preparation; testify as an expert when required.
Related specializations
Interview options
Interview options
Interviewee gender
Interviewee accent
Interview time
Related Pathways
Financial Services
View
Source
Tasks & skills:
O*NET occupational data (work activities, skills, knowledge).
Learn more
Sources & Standards:
This site includes information from O*NET by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. Career Clutch has modified some of this information for student readability. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA.
Last reviewed: Jan 2026
