Forensic Accounting Managing Director Greater Chicago, IL Area + 2 more

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Job Description:

Forensic Accounting Managing Director - Litigation Support & Economic Damages

Essential Job Functions:

Economic Damages, Litigation & Forensic Analysis:

Lead complex economic damages and financial analyses in commercial disputes, including lost profits, breach of contract, intellectual property, business interruption, shareholder and other business disputes.

Develop, review, and defend sophisticated damages, valuation, and financial models using financial statements, transaction-level data, forecasts, market information, and other relevant evidence.

Evaluate opposing expert analyses, damages theories, assumptions, and methodologies; identify strengths, weaknesses, and alternative approaches.

Lead litigation support engagements from early case assessment through expert reports, depositions, arbitration, and trial, including preparation of expert exhibits and demonstratives.

Apply forensic accounting and investigative techniques where disputes involve allegations of fraud, accounting irregularities, asset tracing, or other complex financial issues.

Use quantitative analysis and data analytics to support damages calculations, forensic investigations, post-acquisition disputes, and other litigation-related inquiries.

Client & Engagement Management:

Conduct engagements in compliance with applicable professional, legal, regulatory, and firm requirements.

Manage a broad spectrum of matters involving investigations, litigation support, post-acquisition disputes, and insurance claims.

Lead a broad spectrum of matters involving economic damages, litigation support, forensic accounting investigations, post-acquisition disputes, and other complex financial disputes.

Position the team for successful engagement execution, quality results, and client satisfaction by clearly working within project parameters, managing resources and processes, and anticipating/resolving issues.

Serve as a senior advisor to clients and counsel, translating complex financial and accounting issues into clear, defensible analyses and practical litigation strategies.

Lead engagement execution, including scope, workplan, staffing, budgets, quality, risk management, expert-report development, and client satisfaction.

Manage engagement setup and completion activities, including conflicts, engagement letters, billing, collections, and other engagement administration.

Develop and maintain trusted relationships with outside counsel, in-house legal teams, executives, and other senior client stakeholders.

Recruit, mentor, and develop professionals across the damages and broader Disputes & Investigations team, including development of future expert witnesses.

Business Development:

Originate and expand economic damages and litigation support engagements through an established network of law firms, corporate clients, and referral relationships.

Build Crowe’s market position in economic damages and litigation support, with an expectation of developing into or continuing as a recognized testifying expert.

Identify opportunities to expand existing client relationships and cross-sell Crowe capabilities across forensic accounting, investigations, digital forensics, post-acquisition disputes, and other Advisory services.

Collaborate with Crowe partners and leaders across Advisory to identify disputes, litigation, and expert-services opportunities within existing client relationships.

Maintain and expand an external network of attorneys, experts, corporate decision-makers, and industry contacts to generate opportunities and strengthen Crowe’s brand in the disputes market.

Represent Crowe through relevant legal, accounting, damages, and industry organizations, conferences, CLE/CPE programs, publications, and other thought-leadership activities.

Develop a recognized area of expertise within economic damages and litigation support and contribute to Crowe industry and market initiatives.

Reporting & Communication:

Draft, review, and support expert reports, rebuttal reports, declarations, presentations, and trial demonstratives that clearly communicate complex damages and financial analyses.

Present complex financial concepts and conclusions to attorneys, executives, boards, arbitrators, judges, and juries in a clear and credible manner.

Serve as a senior client and counsel contact and, based on experience, provide deposition, arbitration, and trial testimony as an expert witness.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business, or a related quantitative field required; advanced degree is a plus.

CPA, CFA, CFF, ABV, CVA, CFE, or other relevant professional credential strongly preferred. A CPA is preferred for candidates whose expert work is primarily accounting-based.

Minimum of ten (10) years of progressive experience in economic damages, litigation support, forensic accounting, valuation, dispute advisory, or related professional services, including significant responsibility for complex matters.

Significant professional-services experience with demonstrated responsibility for law-firm and client relationships, engagement leadership, team development, and financial performance.

Deep knowledge of economic damages methodologies and financial analysis, with experience in areas such as lost profits, breach of contract, intellectual property, business valuation, business interruption, shareholder disputes, or other complex commercial litigation.

Demonstrated experience developing or managing complex damages models and contributing substantially to expert reports, rebuttal analyses, deposition preparation, arbitration, and trial. Prior expert testimony is strongly preferred, but candidates with substantial second-chair or supporting-expert experience and a clear trajectory toward testimony will be considered.

Proven ability to manage multiple complex engagements simultaneously, including scope, budgets, staffing, deliverables, expert deadlines, risk management, and client/counsel expectations.

Demonstrated business development success, including an established network of attorneys and/or corporate relationships, a track record of originating or expanding engagements, and the ability to build a sustainable book of business at Crowe.

Strong leadership and people-management experience, including supervising, mentoring, developing, and evaluating professionals and building teams capable of supporting complex expert matters.

Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to evaluate incomplete or conflicting financial evidence and develop independent, defensible conclusions.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience communicating complex damages and financial analyses to legal counsel, senior executives, and other sophisticated stakeholders.

Experience analyzing large and complex financial and transactional data sets and using those analyses to support damages opinions, forensic conclusions, or litigation strategy.

Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint; experience with financial modeling, data analytics, and litigation-support tools is preferred.

Ability to travel and work additional hours as required by client needs, expert-report deadlines, depositions, arbitrations, and trials.

We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. Crowe is not sponsoring for work authorization at this time.

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Crowe, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $180,500.00 - $380,500.00 per year.

Our Benefits:

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How You Can Grow:

We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!

More about Crowe:

Crowe provides professional services through two separate entities: Crowe LLP delivers audit and attest services, and Crowe Advisory LLC provides tax, advisory, consulting, and other nonattest services.

The Crowe Global network consists of more than 300 independent accounting and advisory services firms in more than 150 countries around the globe, making it one of the largest accounting networks in the world*. As independent members of Crowe Global, Crowe LLP and Crowe Advisory LLC serve clients worldwide. (*As of July 2026)

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