Advisory Senior Manager, Forensics

armaninollp; Pasadena (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Armanino LLP seeks a senior professional to lead fraud investigations, forensic accounting engagements, and dispute consulting. You will review financial data, oversee discovery, and direct financial modeling for litigation support.

You will manage engagement teams, budgets, and client relations while driving practice growth and high-quality execution. The role emphasizes leadership, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver complex engagements and expand client partnerships

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field.
• CPA license and/or CFE/MAFF/CFF.
• 8+ years of experience providing litigation support, investigations, forensic accounting, and dispute consulting services.
• Experience managing client engagements, budgets, project teams, and client relationships.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex fraud investigations and litigation consulting engagements.
• Strong business development and relationship management skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and financial modeling.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage fraud investigations, forensic accounting engagements, contract compliance matters, and dispute and litigation consulting engagements.
• Review and analyze financial information, accounting records, tax returns, court pleadings, and other relevant documentation in support of litigation and dispute matters.
• Oversee litigation discovery efforts, including document requests, data analysis, and coordination with internal and external stakeholders.
• Direct the development and review of financial models and analyses for litigation support and forensic accounting engagements.
• Lead complex fraud investigations, including embezzlement, financial reporting fraud, Ponzi schemes, healthcare fraud, and other matters.
• Manage dispute and litigation consulting engagements, including partnership disputes, billing disputes, real estate disputes, post‑acquisition disputes, intellectual property disputes, lost profits analyses, lost wage analyses, and other matters.
• Serve as the primary client relationship manager, overseeing engagement execution, client communications, budgets, invoicing, collections, deliverables, and presentations.
• Provide leadership to engagement teams by supervising project execution, managing resources, and ensuring adherence to Armanino's A+ Execution standards.
• Mentor, coach, and develop team members through performance management, career development, and ongoing feedback.
• Contribute to practice growth initiatives by helping build team culture, enhancing operational scalability, and supporting strategic objectives.
• Develop, manage, and maintain strong relationships with colleagues, clients, attorneys, referral sources, and other industry professionals to identify and generate new business opportunities.
• Support business development efforts through proposal development, networking activities, industry involvement, thought leadership, and client presentations.

Skills

Fraud investigations

Forensic accounting

Litigation support

Client relationship management

Business development

Financial modeling

Project budgeting

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting

CPA / CFE / MAFF / CFF

Tools

Microsoft Excel

MS Office

Job description

At Armanino, you determine your career path. This means it's possible to pursue challenges you are passionate about, in industries you care about.

Armanino is proud to be Among the top 20 Largest Firms in the Nation and one of the Best Places to Work . We have a community of resources that are ready and willing to support your ideas, build your skills and expand your professional network. We want you to integrate all aspects of your life with your career. At Armanino, we know you don't check-out of life when you check-in at work. That's why we've created a unique work environment where your passions, work, and family & friends can overlap. We want to help you achieve growth by giving you access to a network of smart and supportive people, willing to listen to your ideas.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead and manage fraud investigations, forensic accounting engagements, contract compliance matters, and dispute and litigation consulting engagements.
• Review and analyze financial information, accounting records, tax returns, court pleadings, and other relevant documentation in support of litigation and dispute matters.
• Oversee litigation discovery efforts, including document requests, data analysis, and coordination with internal and external stakeholders.
• Direct the development and review of financial models and analyses for litigation support and forensic accounting engagements.
• Lead complex fraud investigations, including embezzlement, financial reporting fraud, Ponzi schemes, healthcare fraud, and other matters.
• Manage dispute and litigation consulting engagements, including partnership disputes, billing disputes, real estate disputes, post‑acquisition disputes, intellectual property disputes, lost profits analyses, lost wage analyses, and other matters.
• Serve as the primary client relationship manager, overseeing engagement execution, client communications, budgets, invoicing, collections, deliverables, and presentations.
• Provide leadership to engagement teams by supervising project execution, managing resources, and ensuring adherence to Armanino's A+ Execution standards.
• Mentor, coach, and develop team members through performance management, career development, and ongoing feedback.
• Contribute to practice growth initiatives by helping build team culture, enhancing operational scalability, and supporting strategic objectives.
• Develop, manage, and maintain strong relationships with colleagues, clients, attorneys, referral sources, and other industry professionals to identify and generate new business opportunities.
• Support business development efforts through proposal development, networking activities, industry involvement, thought leadership, and client presentations.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, or related area of study.
• CPA license, and/or CFE, and/or MAFF, and/or CFF.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience providing litigation support, investigations, forensic accounting, and dispute consulting services.
• Experience managing client engagements, budgets, project teams, and client relationships.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex fraud investigations and litigation consulting engagements.
• Strong business development and relationship management skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and financial modeling.

Preferred Qualifications

• Other credentials related to fraud and forensic investigations, business valuation, dispute consulting, or litigation support.
• Experience developing and mentoring high-performing consulting teams.
• Demonstrated success in business development, client expansion, and practice growth initiatives.

"Armanino" is the brand name under which Armanino LLP and Armanino Advisory LLC, independently owned entities, provide professional services in an alternative practice structure in accordance with law, regulations, and professional standards. Armanino LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services, and Armanino Advisory LLC and its subsidiary entities provide tax, advisory, and business consulting services. Armanino Advisory LLC and its subsidiary entities are not licensed CPA firms.

Armanino provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Armanino complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Armanino expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability