What are the responsibilities and job description for the Forensic and Litigation Services Manager position at Windham Brannon?
Why Windham Brannon:
Windham Brannon is a recognized leader in providing assurance, tax and advisory services to clients both nationally and globally. We believe that best-in-class client service starts by creating exceptional outcomes for our people – by offering more to our team, we can offer even more to our clients. Our award-winning culture has been consistently recognized for helping our people achieve success and fulfillment in their work and personal lives. We are dedicated to providing all our employees a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment that allows our professionals to live a balanced lifestyle between their work responsibilities and personal commitments.
Offering more for your career…
Windham Brannon understands that a successful career requires continuously learning and gaining knowledge in your profession. That’s why we prioritize the following for our people.
- Dedicated learning and development budget for each employee
- Coaches who are dedicated to your career growth and development, helping you thrive in the workplace
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Advisory Council that advocates for important employee initiatives
- Referral, performance, and business development bonus opportunities
Offering more for your life…
Our competitive benefits package is designed to positively impact your life outside of work.
- Hybrid and flexible work environment
- Employer-paid dependent care, life insurance, disability, accident and critical illness, and pet insurance
- 401(k) plan with company matching
- PTO, paid holidays, and summer hours
Offering more for your community…
Windham Brannon believes that we succeed as a firm when those in our community can succeed, too. Our WB Foundation regularly contributes to charities supported by our employees and friends of the month, and we provide regular volunteer support to several not-for-profit organizations throughout the year.
What you will do…
- Possess understanding and experience to take substantial responsibility in performing analytical and investigative services to attorneys, legal counsel, audit committees, government agencies, corporate boards, insurance companies, law enforcement, and management of companies
- Assist with conducting investigations of client matters and prepare appropriate work product and schedules
- Assist in litigation and expert witness matters and prepare the appropriate work product, including reports and schedules
- Interact with attorneys and/or client personnel to ensure a quality product and delivery of work product within established timeframes
- Review the preparation of reports and schedules in connections with the forensic and litigation projects
- Provide leadership and ownership to the forensic practice and minimize the processing time and reduce the all-in cost of work involved
- Mentor and develop junior team members
- Develop new business relationships with attorneys and company personnel to grow Windham Brannon’s clientele base and work to foster on-going efforts to obtain additional opportunities for the Firm
What you bring…
- Required: CPA
- Required: Bachelor's degree in accounting
- Required: 5 years of public accounting experience
- Working towards an advanced forensic credential
- Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving, organizational, interpersonal, communication skills and solid Microsoft Suite skills required
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment and comfortably interact with senior level client personnel
- Ability to work independently and determine/anticipate next steps
- Prior experience supervising staff on a project or engagement basis
- Effective multitasker, able to prioritize and organize several engagements & teams simultaneously
- Client service oriented
*Preferred: Consideration will be given to candidates in the Atlanta or Chattanooga area who are comfortable working in a hybrid model. We will also consider strong candidates that are remotely based in other geographics locations.