Forensic Accounting Managing Director

Crowe•Chicago, IL

1d•$180,500 - $380,500

About The Position

Crowe is hiring a Forensic Accounting Managing Director focused on litigation support and economic damages. The role leads complex financial analyses and litigation-support matters, including economic damages, forensic accounting investigations, post-acquisition disputes, and insurance claims. The Managing Director develops and defends damages analyses and models, evaluates opposing experts’ opinions, and guides engagements from early case assessment through expert reports, depositions, arbitration, and trial. The position serves as a senior advisor to clients and legal counsel, communicating complex financial issues in clear, defensible terms and supporting practical litigation strategies. It also leads engagement execution and team development, builds relationships with law firms and corporate clients, and originates and expands business. The successful candidate is expected to develop or continue as a recognized testifying expert and contribute to Crowe’s market presence through professional organizations, speaking, publications, and other thought leadership.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business, or a related quantitative field.
Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in economic damages, litigation support, forensic accounting, valuation, dispute advisory, or related professional services, including significant responsibility for complex matters.
Significant professional-services experience, with demonstrated responsibility for law-firm and client relationships, engagement leadership, team development, and financial performance.
Deep knowledge of economic damages methodologies and financial analysis, including experience with areas such as lost profits, breach of contract, intellectual property, business valuation, business interruption, shareholder disputes, or other complex commercial litigation.
Experience developing or managing complex damages models and contributing substantially to expert reports, rebuttal analyses, deposition preparation, arbitration, and trial.
Ability to manage multiple complex engagements simultaneously, including scope, budgets, staffing, deliverables, expert deadlines, risk management, and client and counsel expectations.
Demonstrated business-development success, including an established network of attorneys and/or corporate relationships, a record of originating or expanding engagements, and ability to build a sustainable book of business at Crowe.
Leadership and people-management experience supervising, mentoring, developing, and evaluating professionals and building teams for complex expert matters.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and critical-thinking skills, including the ability to evaluate incomplete or conflicting financial evidence and develop independent, defensible conclusions.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex damages and financial analyses to legal counsel, senior executives, and other sophisticated stakeholders.
Experience analyzing large and complex financial and transactional data sets to support damages opinions, forensic conclusions, or litigation strategy.
Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
Ability to travel and work additional hours as required by client needs, expert-report deadlines, depositions, arbitrations, and trials.
Ability to uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship and to act ethically and with integrity.
Must verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire; Crowe is not sponsoring work authorization at this time.

Nice To Haves

An advanced degree.
A CPA, CFA, CFF, ABV, CVA, CFE, or other relevant professional credential; CPA is preferred for candidates whose expert work is primarily accounting-based.
Prior expert testimony; candidates with substantial second-chair or supporting-expert experience and a clear trajectory toward testimony will also be considered.
Experience with financial modeling, data analytics, and litigation-support tools.

Responsibilities

Lead complex economic damages and financial analyses in commercial disputes, including lost profits, breach of contract, intellectual property, business interruption, shareholder disputes, and other business disputes.
Develop, review, and defend damages, valuation, and financial models using financial statements, transaction data, forecasts, market information, and other evidence.
Evaluate opposing expert analyses, damages theories, assumptions, and methodologies, identifying strengths, weaknesses, and alternative approaches.
Lead litigation-support engagements from early case assessment through expert reports, depositions, arbitration, and trial, including the preparation of expert exhibits and demonstratives.
Apply forensic accounting and investigative techniques to matters involving suspected fraud, accounting irregularities, asset tracing, and other complex financial issues.
Use quantitative analysis and data analytics to support damages calculations, forensic investigations, post-acquisition disputes, and other litigation-related inquiries.
Manage investigations, litigation-support matters, post-acquisition disputes, insurance claims, and other complex financial disputes.
Lead engagement execution, including scope, workplans, staffing, budgets, quality, risk management, expert-report development, and client satisfaction.
Manage engagement setup and completion activities, including conflicts, engagement letters, billing, collections, and other administration.
Advise clients and counsel, translating complex financial and accounting issues into clear analyses and practical litigation strategies.
Develop and maintain relationships with outside counsel, in-house legal teams, executives, and other senior client stakeholders.
Recruit, mentor, and develop professionals across the damages and broader Disputes & Investigations team, including future expert witnesses.
Originate and expand economic damages and litigation-support engagements through relationships with law firms, corporate clients, and referral sources.
Build Crowe’s market position in economic damages and litigation support, developing into or continuing as a recognized testifying expert.
Identify opportunities to expand client relationships and cross-sell Crowe capabilities across forensic accounting, investigations, digital forensics, post-acquisition disputes, and other Advisory services.
Collaborate with Crowe partners and Advisory leaders to identify disputes, litigation, and expert-services opportunities.
Maintain and expand an external network of attorneys, experts, corporate decision-makers, and industry contacts.
Represent Crowe through professional organizations, conferences, CLE/CPE programs, publications, and other thought-leadership activities.
Develop a recognized area of expertise in economic damages and litigation support and contribute to Crowe industry and market initiatives.
Draft, review, and support expert reports, rebuttal reports, declarations, presentations, and trial demonstratives.
Present complex financial concepts and conclusions to attorneys, executives, boards, arbitrators, judges, and juries.
Serve as a senior client and counsel contact and, based on experience, provide deposition, arbitration, and trial testimony as an expert witness.