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About the Role
Cherry Bekaert's Forensic & Dispute Advisory Services practice is seeking a Director to lead complex forensic accounting, economic damages, and litigation support engagements. This role involves a leadership position in practice growth, scaling operations, guiding client engagements, mentoring teams, and expanding client relationships. You will deliver clear financial analysis, damages assessments, dispute advisory work products, and expert witness testimony across various industries.
Responsibilities
- Lead forensic accounting, economic damages, and litigation support engagements from strategy through delivery.
- Guide the preparation and review of discovery requests, financial analyses, damages calculations, and engagement deliverables.
- Develop and review approaches to calculating or refuting damages in litigation matters.
- Manage multiple client relationships while communicating results, findings, and work product.
- Participate at the leadership level in driving practice growth and expanding client relationships.
- Mentor and develop professionals across the team.
- Contribute to a culture grounded in mutual respect, collaboration, trust, accountability, and excellence.
- Provide expert witness testimony.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or another relevant business discipline.
- Advanced degree and/or professional certification such as CPA, CFF or CFE.
- Minimum 10+ years of related forensic/audit experience.
- Prior expert witness testimony within a national/regional public accounting or professional services firm.
- Advanced forensic accounting, economic damages, litigation support, audit, public accounting, or corporate accounting experience.
- Ability to manage complex client assignments in deadline-driven environments.
- Proven ability to manage client relationships, lead teams, delegate work, review deliverables, and support multiple engagements.
- Demonstrated business development success, including experience expanding established client relationships and developing new opportunities.
- Strong command of Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
- Previous experience employing AI/BI systems strongly preferred.
- Ability to adapt to rapidly changing environments.
- Ability to work independently or within a group.
- Ability to travel as needed, expected to be less than 25%.
- Candidates must demonstrate eligibility to work in the United States.
- Cherry Bekaert will not provide work sponsorship for this position.
Skills
- Forensic accounting
- Economic damages
- Litigation support
- Audit
- Public accounting
- Corporate accounting
- Client relationship management
- Team leadership
- Work delegation
- Deliverable review
- Business development
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Outlook
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- AI/BI systems
Location
- United States
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years of related forensic/audit experience
- Director
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or another relevant business discipline
- Advanced degree
- Professional certification such as CPA, CFF or CFE
Salary/Compensations
- $174,200 - $302,400
Benefits
- Annual bonus
- Medical, dental, and vision care
- Disability and life insurance
- Generous Paid Time Off
- Retirement plans
- Paid Care Leave
About the Company
- Ranked among the largest accounting and consulting firms in the country.
- Consistently recognized as a Great Place to Work.
- Delivers innovative advisory, assurance and tax services to clients.
- Cherry Bekaert creates shared success through teamwork, energy, and expertise.
- Approaches business challenges with a client-first mindset.
- Committed to making a difference for people, clients, community, and professions.
- Provides opportunities for growth and development.
- Cherry Bekaert LLP and Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC are members of Allinial Global, an accountancy and business advisory global association.
Equal Opportunity
- Cherry Bekaert provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.