Senior forensic accountant – federal fraud & financial investigations

The Senior Forensic Accountant will support PRAC’s Advanced Analytic & Investigative Support Services program by conducting complex financial analysis, tracing proceeds of fraud, analyzing bank records, supporting investigative case development, and assisting federal oversight and law enforcement partners with fraud, money laundering, asset forfeiture, and financial crimes matters. This role will focus on large-scale federal benefit programs and other covered funds where fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement may have occurred.

The Senior Forensic Accountant will work closely with investigative analysts, data scientists, graph data scientists, data engineers, and Government stakeholders to identify suspicious financial activity, document money flows, assess fraud indicators, and prepare clear, defensible work products suitable for oversight, investigative, civil, or criminal referral purposes. The ideal candidate has deep experience in forensic accounting, financial investigations, bank record analysis, fraud tracing, money laundering typologies, asset forfeiture support, and federal benefit program investigations.

Key Responsibilities

Forensic Accounting & Financial Analysis

• Conduct complex forensic accounting analysis involving suspected fraud, money laundering, asset concealment, and misuse of federal funds.
• Trace proceeds of fraud across bank accounts, business entities, individuals, transactions, and related financial records.
• Analyze financial records, bank statements, wire transfers, ACH transactions, checks, deposits, withdrawals, ledgers, and other source documentation.
• Identify suspicious financial patterns, unusual activity, commingled funds, shell entities, nominee ownership structures, and related fraud indicators.
• Support financial reconstruction efforts to determine the flow, source, use, and disposition of funds.

Fraud, Money Laundering & Asset Forfeiture Support

• Support investigations involving fraud, money laundering, asset forfeiture, and related financial crimes.
• Apply knowledge of current financial investigative techniques to identify and explain suspicious activity.
• Assist in developing financial evidence and supporting documentation for civil or criminal matters.
• Support tracing efforts involving large-scale federal benefit programs and fraud schemes affecting government funds.
• Identify potential recoverable assets, financial relationships, and indicators of concealment or laundering.

Federal Benefit Program Investigative Support

• Support investigative and oversight activities related to federal benefit programs, pandemic relief programs, emergency relief authorities, and similar high-volume funding programs.
• Analyze financial activity connected to suspected identity fraud, eligibility fraud, organized fraud rings, false claims, shell companies, and misuse of program funds.
• Work with investigative analysts and data science teams to validate analytic leads and assess financial risk indicators.
• Support large-scale forensic accounting engagements involving complex federal benefit fraud matters.

Bank Record & Transaction Analysis

• Review and analyze bank records and commercial financial data sources.
• Identify transaction patterns, account relationships, related parties, source and use of funds, and suspicious movement of money.
• Develop financial chronologies, transaction summaries, source-and-application-of-funds analyses, and account activity summaries.
• Reconcile financial data across multiple sources and document findings clearly.
• Use Excel and other analytic tools to organize, analyze, and present complex financial information.

Investigative Work Products & Reporting

• Prepare written financial analysis summaries, investigative memoranda, exhibits, transaction charts, and briefing materials.
• Support the development of intelligence reports, referral packages, case summaries, and investigative documentation.
• Translate complex financial findings into clear, concise, and defensible narratives for Government stakeholders.
• Prepare PowerPoint presentations and visual summaries of financial activity, fraud proceeds, and money flow patterns.
• Ensure work products are accurate, well-documented, and suitable for review by OIG and law enforcement stakeholders.

Collaboration with Analytic & Investigative Teams

• Work closely with investigative analysts, graph data scientists, data engineers, data scientists, and Government stakeholders.
• Provide forensic accounting expertise to support fraud analytics, lead development, and case-building efforts.
• Assist technical teams in interpreting financial data, transaction patterns, and fraud typologies.
• Support cross-functional analysis involving structured data, unstructured data, graph relationships, and investigative intelligence.
• Participate in project meetings, case discussions, analytic reviews, and stakeholder briefings.

Tools, Databases & Documentation

• Use commercial financial investigative databases and information sources to support analysis.
• Maintain organized documentation of data sources, assumptions, calculations, methodologies, and findings.
• Ensure financial analysis is repeatable, defensible, and aligned with investigative support standards.
• Support quality control reviews of financial analysis work products.

Requirements

• Minimum five (5) years of forensic accounting experience.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience supporting complex financial analysis involving the tracing of proceeds of fraud.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience specializing in financial investigations with an emphasis on money laundering and asset forfeiture.
• Minimum five (5) years of experience tracing and analyzing funds, including bank records.
• Experience supporting large-scale forensic accounting engagements involving fraud and money laundering allegations.
• Experience tracing funds in criminal or civil litigation matters.
• Working knowledge of current financial investigative techniques.
• Experience using commercial financial investigative databases and information sources.
• Expert-level proficiency with Microsoft Excel.
• Expert-level proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint.

Required Certifications

• Candidates must possess at least one of the following active certifications: Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE / ACFE), Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (ACAMS).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting PRAC, CIGIE, Offices of Inspector General, federal law enforcement, or federal oversight organizations.
• Experience supporting investigations involving federal benefit programs.
• Experience supporting large-scale federal relief, emergency funding, or government assistance programs.
• Specialized training related to money laundering, fraud, asset tracing, or federal benefit program fraud.
• Experience preparing financial analysis for law enforcement, prosecutors, inspectors general, or civil enforcement teams.
• Experience with link analysis, graph analytics, entity resolution, or investigative intelligence tools.
• Familiarity with fraud typologies involving identity fraud, eligibility fraud, shell companies, organized fraud rings, and misuse of federal funds.

Required Skills

• Forensic accounting
• Fraud proceeds tracing
• Bank record analysis
• Money laundering analysis
• Asset forfeiture support
• Financial investigations
• Transaction analysis
• Source and use of funds analysis
• Financial crime typology analysis
• Investigative report writing
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Commercial financial investigative databases
• Written and verbal communication
• Stakeholder briefing support