Forensic Accountant, Vice President

Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future.

Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions, and organizations.

Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organizational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance, ESG and DE&I.

The firm has more than 1,500 employees located in 40+ offices around the world.

 

Financial Advisory Team at Teneo

Teneo’s Financial Advisory business has more than 450 professionals globally, with on the ground teams in the US, UK, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, The Caribbean and Bermuda. Our professionals form seamless global teams to deliver the right expertise in the right places which enables us to create and deliver strategies and solutions that will protect and enhance value for our clients and help them to realize their defined success.  Our services include turnaround and restructuring, business transformation, litigation support, capital raising, M&A and transaction services.  

 

The litigation support and investigation professionals have expertise in financial forensic investigations, valuation, solvency, fraudulent transfer, reconstruction of financial statements, damages, data modeling and analytics, structured products and derivatives and up tier exchanges. A number of our professionals have been retained as either or both a testifying expert and consulting expert in dispute resolution, forensic and accounting matters.

As a Forensic Accountant at Teneo you will be called upon to lead litigation support, fiduciary and restructuring assignments in the Financial Advisory Group.

The professional should have experience working with financial statements of companies across different industries, possess strong detail-oriented skills and interested in embracing complex financial challenges.  The successful candidate will be expected to have a positive, team-focused attitude and an ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with colleagues and clients.  

This role is an integral part of a collegiate, ambitious, and highly professional U.S. Financial Advisory Team that aims to always drive innovation, efficiencies, and progressive people solutions to ensure we continue to be an employer of choice.

The responsibilities listed below are intended to be a broad but not exhaustive list.

Responsibilities

• Support senior team members on client engagements and run certain work streams.
• Perform financial forensic investigations and reviews including: (i) conducting forensic investigations, (ii) flow of funds, (iii) tracing for funds and assets, (iv) intercompany and related party transactions, (v) investigations, and (vi) financial irregularities and improprieties.
• Reconstruct financial statement, including: (i) working with more than one accounting system, (ii) identifying and recommending adjusts to made, and (ii) preparing reports and related presentation
• Advise and consult on damage calculations including: (i) developing and preparing calculations, (ii) determining what information should be used to calculate damages, and (iii) working with counsel to prepare calculations
• Fully review and obtain an in-depth understanding of the the issues, financial information, documents, and agreements in order to advise on the issues, provide observations, set direction and focus of the work to be performed etc.
• Review and assess the issues in the matter and provide strategic alternatives and/or recommendations to the senior engagement lead.
• Act as the consulting expert to the client when the testifying expert is “walled off”.
• Prepare and make presentation for senior engagement lead and clients
• Mentor junior team members

 

Requirements

• Have an undergraduate or masters in accounting.
• CPA credential required, and a certified fraud examiner (CFE) credential is a plus.
• Have 5+ years of relevant work experience.
• Big 4 accounting or a large to midsize consulting/restructuring firm preferred.

• Experience working on audit, forensic investigation, fraud, due diligence/collateral review, transaction services, valuation and/or related fields.

• Strong knowledge and foundatio