Senior Forensic Accountant

Hourly pay range: $63.93–$66.02
Employment type: Full-time
Schedule: Approximately 1,920 hours annually
Location: Primarily remote, with occasional onsite work in Washington, DC

Position Summary

The Senior Forensic Accountant will conduct complex financial investigations and trace suspected fraud proceeds through bank accounts, businesses, individuals, transactions, assets, payment systems, and related entities.

The position will support fraud, money-laundering, asset-forfeiture, civil, criminal, and federal-benefit program matters by producing accurate, traceable, and defensible financial analyses, reports, schedules, exhibits, visualizations, and investigative work products.

Primary Responsibilities

• Conduct complex financial analysis involving fraud proceeds, money laundering, asset forfeiture, and financial concealment.
• Trace funds through bank accounts, payment instruments, businesses, individuals, assets, transfers, and layered transactions.
• Review bank records, ledgers, payment files, financial statements, invoices, claims, ownership records, and other financial information.
• Identify suspicious transactions, circular transfers, structuring, commingling, nominee ownership, unexplained funds, and movement of proceeds.
• Reconstruct financial activity and prepare source-and-application-of-funds analyses.
• Develop transaction timelines, flow-of-funds analyses, financial profiles, and asset-tracing schedules.
• Support large criminal or civil matters involving fraud and money-laundering allegations.
• Use commercial databases, public records, non-public sources, and government data to identify assets, businesses, ownership, and financial relationships.
• Prepare financial-investigative reports, schedules, exhibits, referral materials, transaction summaries, and presentations.
• Produce clear visual representations of the movement of funds and relationships among relevant entities.
• Coordinate with investigative analysts, attorneys, data scientists, graph specialists, and law-enforcement personnel.
• Explain methodologies, assumptions, calculations, findings, limitations, and evidentiary support to senior stakeholders.
• Maintain complete, organized, reproducible, and quality-controlled financial workpapers.
• Verify calculations, source documentation, reconciliations, and supporting evidence.
• Protect sensitive financial, investigative, personal, and law-enforcement information.
• Support technical reviews, briefings, interviews, referrals, and follow-up investigative requests.
• Assist in developing financial risk indicators and fraud-detection use cases.
• Support graph-based analysis of financial relationships and transaction networks.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of five years of experience conducting complex financial investigations involving fraud proceeds.
• Minimum of five years of experience specializing in financial investigations involving money laundering or asset forfeiture.
• Minimum of five years of forensic-accounting experience involving the tracing and analysis of funds, including bank records.
• Previous experience supporting a large-scale forensic-accounting assignment involving federal-benefit programs and significant civil or criminal fraud or money-laundering allegations.
• Working knowledge of current financial-investigative and forensic-accounting techniques.
• Experience using commercial investigative databases and public or non-public information sources.
• Expert proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Strong ability to analyze bank records, financial statements, transaction data, ownership information, and payment records.
• Experience preparing defensible financial schedules, reports, exhibits, and workpapers.
• Strong analytical, documentation, report-writing, communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to explain complex financial transactions and findings to non-financial audiences.
• Active Certified Public Accountant, Certified Fraud Examiner, or Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist credential.
• Ability to complete federal suitability, HSPD-12/PIV credentialing, and system-access requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting federal-benefit programs, federal law enforcement, an Office of Inspector General, or an emergency-relief oversight organization.
• Specialized training involving money laundering, fraud, asset tracing, financial intelligence, or federal-benefit program integrity.
• Experience using SQL, graph analytics, link analysis, data-visualization tools, or financial-investigation software.
• Experience supporting criminal referrals, civil enforcement, asset forfeiture, or program-integrity matters.
• Bachelor's or graduate degree in accounting, finance, forensic accounting, economics, or a related discipline.