About the Role
The Investigative Auditor will provide specialized financial, auditing, statistical, healthcare claims, and forensic accounting support to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York, supporting the Affirmative Civil Enforcement Unit in developing, investigating, and litigating civil fraud matters.
Responsibilities
- Assist Assistant U.S. Attorneys (AUSAs) and investigative agencies with complex financial, statistical, healthcare, and forensic accounting analyses supporting civil fraud investigations and litigation.
- Analyze and audit financial transactions, accounting systems, healthcare claims, reimbursement data, procurement records, grant expenditures, and related financial information.
- Conduct healthcare claims analyses involving Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, VA, and other federally funded healthcare programs.
- Assist with statistical sampling analyses and methodologies, including the use of RAT-STATS or comparable statistical sampling tools.
- Conduct False Claims Act damages analyses, including calculations involving damages, penalties, restitution-related figures, and other financial exposure.
- Conduct asset-tracing and ability-to-pay analyses to support evaluation of settlement positions, financial recoverability, and collection considerations.
- Analyze large financial and healthcare datasets and organize financial and documentary evidence using industry-standard analytical and visualization tools.
- Trace financial activity involving individuals, corporate entities, healthcare providers, contractors, grant recipients, and other organizations.
- Perform forensic accounting analyses involving incomplete, inconsistent, electronically stored, or voluminous financial records.
- Review and analyze bank records, tax records, healthcare billing records, claims submissions, contracts, invoices, procurement materials, grant documentation, correspondence, and other documentary evidence.
- Prepare accurate and concise audit reports, schedules, spreadsheets, charts, summaries, timelines, visualizations, and other analytical products.
- Develop analytical materials for investigations, settlement negotiations, motions practice, depositions, hearings, and trials.
- Assist with interviews of witnesses, relators/whistleblowers, subjects, healthcare providers, business representatives, law enforcement personnel, and other individuals relevant to investigations.
- Support AUSAs, USAO personnel, and investigative agencies with deposition preparation, trial preparation, exhibits, and related litigation-support activities.
- Attend meetings, interviews, depositions, hearings, and trials when requested.
- Assist with preparing declarations, affidavits, summaries, and other evidentiary materials.
- Use electronic databases and publicly available information to identify assets, financial information, and other relevant evidence.
- Assist with organizing, indexing, securing, and managing documentary and electronic evidence.
- Prepare interim and final analytical and investigative reports.
- Help develop technical guidance and analytical approaches involving auditing, healthcare claims analysis, statistical sampling, forensic accounting, and financial investigations.
- Collaborate with AUSAs, federal agents, agency personnel, and support staff to identify potential statutory and regulatory violations.
- Perform other related duties within the scope of the assignment.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Statistics, Data Analytics, Healthcare Administration, or a related field.
- Minimum of three (3) years of professional experience involving one or more of the following: Accounting, Auditing, Healthcare claims analysis, Forensic accounting, Financial investigations, Statistical analysis, Related analytical work.
- Demonstrated professional experience relevant to complex financial, healthcare, forensic accounting, statistical, and investigative analysis.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Access.
- Experience using financial, auditing, analytical, statistical, and/or data visualization software.
- Strong quantitative, analytical, investigative, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to analyze large and complex datasets and accurately communicate findings.
- Ability to prepare professional reports, spreadsheets, schedules, charts, timelines, and other analytical products.
- Ability to work collaboratively with attorneys, investigators, federal agency personnel, and support staff.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential investigative information appropriately.
- U.S. Citizenship.
- Ability to successfully complete the required background investigation.
- Complete required DOJ security, privacy, ethics, cybersecurity, records-management, confidentiality, and other contract-specific training.
Skills
- Accounting
- Auditing
- Healthcare claims analysis
- Forensic accounting
- Financial investigations
- Statistical analysis
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Access
- Financial software
- Auditing software
- Analytical software
- Statistical software
- Data visualization software
- Quantitative analysis
- Analytical skills
- Investigative skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Data analysis
- Report preparation
- Collaboration
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Handling confidential information
- False Claims Act investigations
- Healthcare fraud investigations
- Medicare claims analysis
- Medicaid claims analysis
- TRICARE claims analysis
- VA claims analysis
- Government procurement fraud
- Grant fraud
- Financial tracing
- Statistical sampling
- RAT-STATS
- Damages calculations
- Financial exposure analyses
- Asset tracing
- Ability-to-pay assessments
- Federal investigations support
- Litigation support
Location
- Contractor-designated location within the United States
- On-site support in Albany, New York
Work Type
- Full-Time
- Federal Contract Support
Experience Level
- Minimum of three (3) years of professional experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree or higher
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision Benefits Offered
- 401k
- Life Insurance plans
- Employee Health and Wellness program
About the Company
- Founded in 2014, Crossroads Talent Solutions, LLC is a veteran-led SBA 8(a) and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business headquartered in Maryland, delivering trusted program management, administrative, and mission support services to federal agencies nationwide.
- For more than a decade, we have supported critical operations for partners including the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, National Guard, Defense Health Agency (DHA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Small Business Administration (SBA), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
- Known for our integrity, transparency, and commitment to excellence, Crossroads has built a solid reputation as a reliable federal partner dedicated to delivering measurable performance and taking care of the people who make each mission possible.
Equal Opportunity
- Crossroads Talent Solutions, LLC is a Veteran friendly employer and provides equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, genetic information, marital status, ancestry, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws.
- Equal Opportunity Employer/Veteran/Disabled
