About the Role
Hilco Global is expanding its Global Investigations & Dispute Resolution practice, offering a unique opportunity to build a market-facing practice within an established platform with strong client relationships and market credibility. This role is for ambitious, commercial professionals excited by the idea of shaping a leading global investigations and disputes offering.
Responsibilities
- Lead significant investigations, forensic accounting matters, commercial disputes, and other high-stakes engagements.
- Advise clients, counsel, boards, investors, lenders, and other stakeholders on complex factual, accounting, financial, and strategic issues.
- Oversee engagement teams across multiple concurrent matters and ensure excellence in execution, analysis, and deliverables.
- Serve as a senior client contact and help develop durable, trusted relationships internally and externally.
- Direct the development of reports, expert-related analyses, investigative findings, and other key work product.
- Partner with leadership on practice strategy, market positioning, talent development, recruiting, and business growth.
- Identify opportunities to expand client relationships and originate new work where appropriate.
- Collaborate with professionals across Hilco’s broader capital solutions, restructuring, valuation, and advisory platform to deliver integrated solutions.
- Mentor managers and Associate Directors and help build the long-term leadership bench of the practice.
- Help define the culture, standards, and external profile of a growing practice.
Requirements
- Approximately 10+ years of relevant experience in investigations, forensic accounting, disputes, litigation support, valuation, restructuring advisory, or related consulting services.
- Strong track record of leading complex matters and managing senior client and counsel relationships.
- Deep technical credibility in one or more areas such as investigations, forensic accounting, damages, post-acquisition disputes, asset tracing, fraud risk, regulatory matters, or related disciplines.
- Demonstrated success leading teams in a professional services environment.
- Strong commercial instincts and interest in supporting business development and practice growth.
- Excellent communication, writing, and presentation skills.
- Ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and contribute to building a leading practice.
- Candidates are expected to be onsite at Hilco Global offices and work primarily in person with their teams (at least for the first 3-6 months to build connections/relationships).
- Travel may be required depending on client needs and engagement demands.
Skills
- Investigations
- Forensic accounting
- Disputes
- Litigation support
- Valuation
- Restructuring advisory
- Financial analysis
- Commercial disputes
- Bribery and corruption matters
- Asset tracing
- Investigative due diligence
- Litigation support
- Regulatory response
- Fraud and misconduct investigations
Location
- Northbrook, Illinois
Work Type
- Office-based
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Director
- Senior leader
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, economics, business, or a related discipline required
- Master’s degrees (e.g., MAcc, MBA, MSF, or similar) are strongly encouraged and will be prioritized
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000-300,000
Benefits
- Cash bonuses
- Long term incentives
- Health insurance
- Accident and life insurance
- Retirement benefits
- Medical and dental plans
- Vision coverage
- Disability and life insurance
- 401(k) plans
- Personal well-being benefits to support mental health
About the Company
- Hilco Global is a diversified financial services company that delivers integrated professional services and capital solutions across various sectors.
- The firm is trusted in high-stakes, complex, and often time-sensitive situations where financial, operational, strategic, and legal issues intersect.
- Hilco Global works to deliver the best possible result by aligning interests with clients and providing strategic advice and capital.
- Hilco Global has more than 850 professionals operating on four continents.
- The Global Investigations & Dispute Resolution practice advises clients on matters involving fraud and misconduct investigations, forensic accounting and financial analysis, post-acquisition and other commercial disputes, bribery and corruption matters, asset tracing, investigative due diligence, litigation support, regulatory response, and other sensitive situations.
Equal Opportunity
- Hilco Global is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered on merits and without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, marital status, gender, veteran, or disability status.
