Forensic Accounting & Litigation Senior Manager

With over 120 offices and nearly 7,000 associates throughout the U.S. CBIZ (NYSE: CBZ) delivers top-level financial and employee business services to organizations of all sizes, as well as individual clients, by providing national-caliber expertise combined with highly personalized service delivered at the local level.

CBIZ is honored to be the recipient of several national recognitions for 2023:

• Best and Brightest Companies to Work for in the Nation
• Top Workplaces USA
• Top Workplaces - Financial Services Industry
• Best and Brightest Companies in Wellness
• Great Place to Work Certification

Together, CBIZ and CBIZ CPAs are ranked as one of the top providers of accounting services in the United States. CBIZ CPAs is an independent CPA firm that provides audit, review and attest services, while CBIZ provides business consulting, tax and financial services. In certain jurisdictions, CBIZ CPAs operates under its previous name, Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C.

The Forensic and Litigation Associates work as a member of the Client Services group and can expect a diverse experience ranging from accounting procedures for litigation engagements to the performance of business appraisal and valuation services. This position performs many duties of an advance level forensic accountant including working directly for corporate clients, under the supervision of upper level management.

Essential Functions and Primary Duties

• Performance of preliminary valuation, forensic, and appraisal analyses, including development of comparative adjusted financial statements and data input for expert witness exhibits.
• Knowledgeable of the relevant statutory and family codes and their applicability to accounting principles in performance of forensic accounting.
• Participate in client assignments from beginning to end.
• Create forensic and economics models for presentation of forensic standard accounting system.
• Identify and communicate case issues, finding, and improvement opportunities with managers and partners to resolve client issues discovered during engagements.
• Work with discovery team to inventory and reconcile documents and data produced in preparation for submission to courts, attorneys and clients
• Assist in preparation of exhibits and background information for expert witness testimony
• Maintain and comply with highest degree of professional standards, client confidentiality and personal conduct.
• They will participate in training and developing staff and building a team-centered client service team; monitor client issues related to compliance services and monitor engagement status and profitability as well as attending to clients expectation

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Accounting or related field
• Family law forensic accounting experience

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required
• 6 years of experience in public accounting or related field
• 3 years supervisory experience
• Must have active CPA or equivalent certification
• Ability to manage all aspects of client engagements
• Demonstrated ability to communicate verbally and in writing throughout all levels of organization, both internally and externally
• Must be able to travel based on client and business needs
• Proficient use of applicable technology

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