Description
Obtain and analyze financial records, reconstruct transactions, trace assets, quantify losses, and produce expert reports and testimony to resolve allegations of fraud or financial disputes. May coordinate fraud risk assessments and prevention activities and support litigation.
- • Maintain current knowledge of financial crime trends, accounting standards, AML regulations, and investigative techniques.
- • Train finance and compliance staff in fraud risk assessment, internal controls, and forensic accounting techniques.
- • Research and evaluate analytic tools, data mining, and visualization technologies for forensic and fraud detection work.
- • Prepare financial exhibits, schedules, and workpapers for use in depositions, arbitration, and court.
- • Draft document requests and assist counsel with subpoenas and discovery related to financial records.
- • Support asset tracing and recovery efforts; quantify losses to inform settlements and restitution.
- • Perform on-site reviews and inventory counts to verify records and assets.
- • Trace funds and beneficial ownership through complex entities and accounts.
- • Testify as an expert witness regarding financial analyses and findings.
- • Advise organizations on strengthening internal controls, fraud prevention, and compliance programs.
- • Review allegations, tips, and anomaly reports to scope and prioritize forensic reviews.
- • Prepare clear, defensible forensic accounting reports summarizing methods, findings, and conclusions.
- • Recommend remedial actions, referrals, or process changes based on investigation results.
- • Lead or collaborate on multidisciplinary teams with legal, compliance, and audit.
- • Interview key personnel, vendors, and other stakeholders to corroborate transactions and controls.
- • Design and implement data analytics, monitoring procedures, and control tests to detect anomalies.
- • Collect and authenticate financial records, bank data, emails, and other digital evidence.
- • Assess business processes to identify fraud risk, control gaps, and opportunities for manipulation.
- • Document procedures, analyses, and chain of custody in accordance with professional standards.
- • Maintain case files, evidence databases, and analytic models for current and future matters.
- • Coordinate with counsel, regulators, auditors, and law enforcement on evidence, scope, and timelines.
- • Conduct in-depth analyses of suspicious activity, including money laundering, asset misappropriation, and financial statement fraud.
- • Analyze financial and operational data to detect irregularities in transactions, relationships, billing, revenue recognition, and compliance.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
