Forensic Accounting Managing Director

Crowe • Chicago, IL

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About The Position

Crowe is hiring a Forensic Accounting Managing Director for its Litigation Support & Economic Damages practice. The role leads complex financial and economic damages analyses for commercial disputes, including matters involving lost profits, breach of contract, intellectual property, business interruption, shareholder disputes, and other business disputes. The Managing Director develops, reviews, and defends damages, valuation, and financial models; evaluates opposing experts’ analyses and methodologies; and leads litigation support engagements from early case assessment through reports, depositions, arbitration, and trial. The work may also involve forensic investigations, fraud allegations, accounting irregularities, asset tracing, and analysis of large financial and transactional data sets.

This leader is responsible for engagement quality and execution, including scope, workplans, staffing, budgets, risk management, reporting, and client satisfaction. The role serves as a senior advisor to clients and counsel, builds trusted relationships with law firms and corporate stakeholders, and recruits, mentors, and develops professionals. The Managing Director is also expected to originate and expand engagements, build Crowe’s market position, develop an established external network, and grow into or continue as a recognized testifying expert. The position requires travel and additional hours when client needs, deadlines, depositions, arbitrations, or trials require them.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business, or a related quantitative field.
• At least 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 responsibility for law-firm and client relationships, engagement leadership, team development, and financial performance.
• Deep knowledge of economic damages methodologies and financial analysis, with experience in 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 track record of originating or expanding engagements, and ability to build a sustainable book of business at Crowe.
• Leadership and people-management experience, including 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 communicating complex damages and financial analyses to legal counsel, senior executives, and other sophisticated stakeholders.
• Experience analyzing large and complex financial and transactional data sets and using the analyses 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.
• Must uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship and act ethically and with integrity.
• Must verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States 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-level 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 preparation of expert exhibits and demonstratives.
• Apply forensic accounting and investigative techniques to matters involving alleged fraud, accounting irregularities, asset tracing, or 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 a broad range of 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 by translating complex financial and accounting issues into clear, defensible 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 law firm, corporate, and referral networks.
• Build Crowe’s market position in economic damages and litigation support and develop into or continue 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.
• Represent Crowe through relevant 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 industry and market initiatives.
• Draft, review, and support expert reports, rebuttal reports, declarations, presentations, and trial demonstratives.
• Present complex financial concepts and conclusions clearly to attorneys, executives, boards, arbitrators, judges, and juries.
• Serve as a senior client and counsel contact and, based on experience, provide expert testimony in depositions, arbitration, and trials.
• Conduct engagements in compliance with applicable professional, legal, regulatory, and firm requirements.

Benefits

• Comprehensive total rewards package.
• Work flexibility to balance work with life moments.
• Career Coach support and consistent meetings to guide career goals and aspirations.
• Inclusive culture that values diversity and supports career growth.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director