Senior Forensic Accountant
Key Personnel
Role Title | Senior Forensic Accountant |
Reports To | Program Manager / Lead Investigator |
Type | Key Personnel — full-time for the period of performance |
Primary Outcome | Trace the proceeds of fraud across complex federal matters and produce defensible forensic analysis that supports criminal and civil enforcement, asset forfeiture, and litigation. |
Role Summary
We are seeking a Senior Forensic Accountant to lead complex financial investigations tracing the proceeds of fraud across large-scale federal matters. This is a hands-on investigative role for a seasoned forensic professional who can follow money through layered transactions and shell structures, reconstruct financial pictures from bank records and disparate data, and produce analysis that holds up under litigation and prosecutorial scrutiny. The person in this role works at the intersection of forensic accounting, financial-crime investigation, and litigation support — partnering closely with federal law enforcement, legal teams, and program stakeholders to build defensible findings that support criminal and civil enforcement actions.
The ideal candidate brings deep money-laundering and asset-forfeiture experience, fluency with commercial investigative databases and analytic tooling, and the judgment to know where to look and who to investigate in cases where fraud is deliberately concealed.
Key Responsibilities
• Conduct complex forensic accounting analysis to trace the proceeds of fraud through financial systems, bank records, and multi-layered transactions.
• Perform asset-tracing and fund-flow analysis using source-and-application-of-funds, net-worth, and comparable methodologies to identify concealment, layering, and disposition of illicit funds.
• Support criminal and civil litigation involving fraud, money laundering, and asset-forfeiture allegations, including matters involving federal benefit programs.
• Analyze structured and unstructured financial data from commercial databases and public/non-public sources to identify indicators of fraud and financial crime.
• Reconstruct financial profiles of subjects and entities to expose the infrastructure behind fraud and money-laundering schemes.
• Prepare clear, well-documented forensic reports, summary exhibits, charts, and presentations suitable for investigative use, referral to law enforcement, and courtroom presentation.
• Provide input to affidavits, subpoenas, and investigative recommendations, and support findings through testimony where required.
• Collaborate with federal investigators, prosecutors, and legal counsel throughout the investigative and litigation lifecycle.
• Apply current financial investigative techniques and maintain rigor, accuracy, and evidentiary defensibility across all work products.
Required Qualifications
• Minimum five (5) years of experience supporting complex financial analysis relating to tracing the proceeds of fraud, with a minimum of five (5) years specializing in financial investigations emphasizing money laundering and asset forfeiture. (mandatory)
• Minimum five (5) years of experience in forensic accounting and the tracing and analysis of funds, including bank records. (mandatory)
• Previous experience on a large-scale forensic accounting assignment involving federal benefit programs that included tracing of funds on large criminal or civil litigation matters involving fraud and money-laundering allegations. (mandatory)
• Active certification as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), or Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). (mandatory)
• Working knowledge of current financial investigative techniques, including the use of commercial databases and other sources of information.
• Expert-level proficiency in MS Office, including Excel and PowerPoint.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to distill complex financial findings for investigators, counsel, and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred / Differentiators
• Experience working with federal benefit programs and federal law enforcement.
• Dual certification (e.g., CPA + CFE or CPA + CAMS) — a strong signal of combined accounting and fraud-investigation depth.
• Prior expert-witness, deposition, or declaration/affidavit experience in financial-crime or asset-forfeiture matters.
• Hands-on experience with named commercial investigative databases (e.g., Accurint, CLEAR, LexisNexis, TLO) and familiarity with FinCEN / BSA / SAR data.
• Familiarity with link-analysis or data-visualization tooling (e.g., i2 Analyst''s Notebook, Tableau).
• Specialized training in money laundering and fraud within federal benefit programs.
• Experience collaborating with federal series-1811 investigators, an Office of Inspector General (OIG), or DOJ engagement teams.
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