Senior Associate, Forensic Accounting & Commercial Damages

Thinkbrg; Emeryville (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

BRG is seeking a Senior Associate or Consultant in San Francisco/ Emeryville to support complex financial disputes. You will work on forensic accounting, business valuation, lost profits, and economic damages analyses, contributing to expert opinions in litigation and regulatory proceedings.

Responsibilities include analyzing financial data, tracing transactions, researching GAAP, building financial models, and drafting expert report sections.

Qualifications

• Support complex financial disputes and investigations.
• Analyze financial statements, tax returns, and transactional data.
• Research GAAP standards and evaluate accounting treatments.
• Develop financial models for lost profits and economic damages.
• Prepare expert report sections and discuss methodologies clearly.

Responsibilities

• Analyze financial statements, general ledgers, tax returns, and data to identify issues.
• Trace transactions and reconcile records to support fraud investigations.
• Research GAAP and assess consistency with standards.
• Develop models for lost profits and economic damages, including DCF where appropriate.
• Draft sections of expert reports and prepare exhibits with clear connections.
• Assist with depositions, hearings, and trial preparations as needed.
• Review work for accuracy and maintain organized, reproducible workpapers.
• Communicate findings to engagement teams and clients.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Forensic accounting

Fraud investigation

GAAP knowledge

Financial modeling

Attention to detail

Effective communication

Tools

Excel

Job description

Senior Associate, Forensic Accounting & Commercial Damages# Where Intelligence Works## Senior Associate, Forensic Accounting & Commercial DamagesApply: Emeryville, CA: Full time: Posted Yesterday: JR101226## **We Do Consulting Differently** BRG brings together industry specialists and leading experts in accounting, damages analysis, economics, finance, valuation, data analytics, and strategic analysis. Our Economics, Disputes & Investigations community helps clients address complex business challenges through rigorous analysis, independent perspectives, and clear, practical insights.# BRG’s Forensic Accounting practice is seeking a Senior Associate or Consultant in San Francisco to support complex financial disputes and investigations. The successful candidate will work with Managing Director Frank Wisehart and other engagement professionals on forensic accounting, business valuation, lost profits, and economic damages analyses supporting expert opinions in litigation and other dispute proceedings.Engagements may involve fraud allegations, disputed accounting methodologies, compliance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), alter-ego allegations, lost profits, business valuation, and economic damages. The role emphasizes rigorous, standards-based analysis and clear documentation that supports expert reports and testimony in court, arbitration, and regulatory proceedings.This role is well suited to a public accounting or advisory professional who wants to apply accounting knowledge and professional skepticism to disputed financial issues. Candidates should enjoy examining underlying records, testing assumptions, and explaining complex financial matters clearly to both technical and nontechnical audiences. # Job Responsibilities* Analyze financial statements, general ledgers, tax returns, transaction-level data, and other business records to identify relevant financial activity, inconsistencies, and potential accounting issues.* Trace transactions and reconcile financial records to support investigations of alleged fraud, financial irregularities, and disputed accounting practices.* Research applicable accounting standards, including GAAP, and assist in evaluating whether accounting treatments and methodologies are consistent with those standards and the underlying financial evidence.* Develop and maintain financial models supporting lost-profits calculations, economic damages analyses, and business valuations, including discounted cash flow analyses where appropriate.* Evaluate historical financial performance, forecasts, and underlying assumptions to assess the reasonableness of financial projections and claimed losses.* Assist in drafting expert report sections and preparing exhibits and supporting schedules that clearly connect financial evidence, analytical methods, assumptions, and conclusions.* Support preparation for depositions, hearings, arbitration, trial, and regulatory proceedings by checking report support, reviewing opposing experts’ methodologies and calculations, and identifying issues for expert evaluation.* Analyze intercompany transactions, related-party balances, and financial relationships among entities to support expert analyses involving alter-ego allegations, without making legal determinations. Conduct company, industry, and economic research as needed.* Maintain organized, reproducible workpapers with clear references to source documents so analyses can be reviewed, replicated, and supported under scrutiny.* Review your own work and the work of others for accuracy, consistency, completeness, and supportability.* Communicate findings effectively to engagement teams and contribute to client discussions as appropriate.* Collaborate across engagements, manage competing priorities, and meet project deadlines while maintaining high standards of quality and confidentiality.* Participate in practice development activities and travel as required by engagement needs.