About the Role
BRG’s Disputes & Investigations practice is seeking a senior manager with a strong interest in complex financial investigations, forensic accounting, asset tracing, and fraud-related matters. This position requires a highly motivated problem solver with exceptional analytical skills, strong organizational capabilities, and a desire to advance within a dynamic and expanding practice. Engagements may involve investigating allegations of fraud and financial misconduct, tracing assets and funds across complex transactions, analyzing accounting records and financial data, assessing damages and other financial impacts, supporting regulatory and litigation matters, and developing clear, defensible conclusions for clients, counsel, and other stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Delegate assignments to staff, instruct and monitor progress, and review work products for completeness and accuracy.
- Plan and manage all sizes of client engagements from small projects to larger investigations.
- Demonstrate creativity and efficient use of relevant software tools, analytical methods, and computer models to develop solutions.
- Prioritize assignments and responsibilities to meet goals and deadlines.
- Analyze financial statements, general ledgers, tax returns, and other financial documents to carry out the objectives of the stated project(s).
- Manage preparation of expert witness reports by supporting analyses and opinions based on industry research, data analysis, and financial modeling.
- Perform detailed research and analysis, including the review of various dispute-related documents and accounting standards, then put the results into action (e.g., gather, review, and summarize literature and data from the public domain, specialized industry resources, or client, public and commercial databases).
- Analyze historical and projected financial information and develop financial and damage models.
- Organize and maintain case documents and folders, create electronic libraries for documents, and retrieve documents as necessary.
- Audit own work products and work products of others to assure quality.
- Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Participate in group practice meetings, contribute to business development initiatives and office functions such as staff training and recruiting.
- Participate in a team environment and meet client deadlines and quality expectations.
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, economics, or a related field.
- CPA required, with CFE certification preferred for candidates with forensic accounting and investigations experience.
- Minimum eight (8+ years) experience working for a consulting firm in an accounting or audit capacity.
- Big 4 Consulting experience in investigations.
- Strong understanding of accounting principles and financial statements (e.g., relationship between debits and credits and statement of cash flow, income statement, balance sheet, and trial balance).
- Proven capability with Excel in addition to other Microsoft Office products.
- Experience with research software such as LexisNexis, Factiva, JSTOR, Bloomberg, and Capital IQ.
- Proven capability with relational database program(s) (e.g., MS SQL Server, MS Access, MySQL, Oracle), or statistical analysis programs (e.g., SAS, SPSS, Stata, R, and Python).
Skills
- Forensic accounting
- Global investigations
- Discovery & forensics technology
- M&A & private equity disputes
- Cybersecurity & investigations
- Financial investigations
- Asset tracing
- Fraud-related matters
- Analytical skills
- Organizational capabilities
- Litigation consulting
- Advisory services
- Excel
- Microsoft Office products
- Research software (LexisNexis, Factiva, JSTOR, Bloomberg, Capital IQ)
- Relational database programs (MS SQL Server, MS Access, MySQL, Oracle)
- Statistical analysis programs (SAS, SPSS, Stata, R, Python)
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
- 8+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, economics, or a related field
- CPA
- CFE certification preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $180,000 to $250,000 per year
About the Company
- BRG combines world-leading academic credentials with world-tested business expertise and purpose-built emerging technologies.
- Our culture centers on agility and connectivity which sets us apart and gets you ahead.
- At BRG, our professionals include specialist consultants, industry experts, renowned academics, and leading-edge data scientists.
- Together, they bring a diversity of real-world experience, data, and human and artificial intelligence, to economics, disputes, and investigations; corporate finance; and performance improvement services that address the most complex challenges facing organizations across the globe.
- Our unique structure nurtures the interdisciplinary relationships that give us the edge, laying the groundwork for more informed insights and more original, incisive thinking.
- When paired with our global reach and resources, our diverse perspectives and technical capabilities make us uniquely capable to address our clients’ challenges.
- We get results because we know how to apply our thinking to your world.
- At BRG, we don’t just show you what’s possible. We’re built to help you make it happen.
- We do Consulting Differently It takes more than top-tier people. It takes top-tier people grounded in real-world expertise, working together in the right ways. This is BRG.
- Purpose-built for the agility and connectivity that sets us apart— we bring the best data, brightest talent, and boldest thinking to all that we do.
- With the crucial added ingredient of our real-world business acumen, we translate insights into action.
Equal Opportunity
- BRG is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.
- If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at Recruiting@Thinkbrg.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.
- Requests for Website Accessibility and Required Information for Online Applicant Tracking Systems accommodation will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
- Please note that only inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to from this email address.
