What are the responsibilities and job description for the Forensics Senior Associate position at Grant Thornton - Americas?
As a Forensics Senior Associate, you will get the opportunity to grow and contribute to our clients' business needs by helping them identify, mitigate, and respond to fraud, regulations, litigation, and other issues so that they can take rapid protective action, restore confidence, and get back to creating value within the Forensics Advisory Services Practice – all with the resources, environment, and support to help you excel.
From day one, you’ll be empowered by the greater Risk team to help clients make the moves that will help them achieve their vision and help you achieve more, confidently.
Your day-to-day may include:
- Perform data and document intensive financial analysis and conduct research and investigative data analysis
- Interact with colleagues and clients in multiple time zones and locations globally while performing project management, and investigative tasks
- Assist in creating and explaining written and verbal materials describing complex analytic findings and damage calculation techniques involving complex commercial disputes and litigation matters
- Perform data collection, email reviews, a financial transaction testing to detect fraud, prove and disprove whistleblower allegations, all while identifying control weaknesses within organizations
- Communicate with clients and internally with all levels of the organization to successfully accomplish objectives while portraying knowledge and confidence
- Motivate others to perform at maximum efficiency without sacrificing quality of the services delivered
- Assist practice leadership in creating proposals, budgets, and workplans
- Other duties as assigned
You have the following technical skills and qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, MIS, or related field degree required
- Minimum 2 years of related work experience in a similar consulting practice or function servicing cross-industry clients at a national level
- CPA, CFF and/or CFE preferred
- Proficiency in more than one language is a plus
- Excellent communication skills with ability to work in a cross-functional team.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Microsoft Excel and Access
- Ability to manage multiple engagements and competing priorities in a rapidly growing, fast-paced, interactive, results-based team environment
- Must have excellent oral and written communication skills
- Can travel as needed.
