Forensic Accounting Manager or Senior Manager

Job Description

Role Overview

This role sits within FRP's Forensic Services team in Belfast and focuses on delivering forensic accounting services in relation to personal injury matters. Working closely with solicitors, insurers, counsel and other stakeholders, you will manage engagements involving the quantification of financial losses and support clients through complex claims and disputes. You will also play an important role in developing junior team members and supporting the continued growth of FRP's Forensic Services practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of personal injury forensic accounting engagements, acting as the primary contact for solicitors, insurers, counsel, and other stakeholders.
• Prepare and review financial loss calculations, including loss of earnings, business losses, pension losses, care claims, and dependency claims.
• Analyse financial, employment, business, and tax records to quantify past and future economic losses.
• Identify key quantum issues, determine information requirements, and assess supporting evidence.
• Assist in developing case strategy and advising on approaches to loss quantification.
• Prepare and review expert reports, schedules of loss, joint statements, and critiques of opposing expert evidence.
• Support expert witness assignments, including conferences with counsel, mediations, and court proceedings where required.
• Manage case deadlines, budgets, and resource requirements, ensuring efficient delivery of engagements.
• Review and supervise the work of junior team members, providing coaching and technical guidance.
• Contribute to practice development through business development, client relationship management, training, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Take a leading role in the development and growth of the personal injury practice, identifying opportunities to expand client relationships, enhance service offerings, and strengthen the firm's market presence within the personal injury sector.

Qualifications

Essential

• ACA, ACCA or equivalent professional qualification
• Experience within forensic accounting, disputes, expert witness or personal injury-related work
• Strong analytical and financial modelling skills
• Experience reviewing complex financial information and producing high-quality written reports
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to manage multiple engagements and competing deadlines
• Experience supervising, mentoring or reviewing the work of others

Desirable

• Experience preparing expert reports, schedules of loss or joint statements
• Experience working with solicitors, insurers, counsel or other legal professionals
• Knowledge of personal injury, clinical negligence or fatal accident claims
• Expert witness training or other relevant specialist qualifications

Additional Information

Our Values

• Straightforward: We provide clear, no-nonsense advice
• Confident: Our guidance is backed by expertise and evidence
• Pragmatic: We focus on practical solutions and tangible outcomes
• Real: We are professional yet approachable, understanding the challenges our clients face

Our Commitment to You and the Environment

At FRP Advisory Group, sustainability is integral to our strategy and operations. Our sustainability depends on building and maintaining meaningful, long-term relationships with all our stakeholders - including our employees, clients, and local communities - while also reducing our impact on the natural environment.

We are always striving to improve in all areas - whether it’s our people, our clients, our planet or our governance. Our ongoing success as a business depends on our sustainability and agility in a changing and challenging global landscape.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and diverse culture for our people. We maintain an Equal Opportunities Policy, ensuring that recruitment and employment decisions are based solely on the skills and experience required for our professional services - regardless of ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic. We believe every individual should have the opportunity to thrive.

Our learning and development programmes enable us to invest in growing our employees’ careers. We aim to empower our team members to each achieve their potential.

We are committed to growing long-term relationships with our clients and supporting them in achieving their objectives. We understand that our clients’ sustainability and success lead to our sustainability and success. We are emotionally invested in our clients right from the beginning.