Forensic Accounting Managing Director

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Job Description:

Forensic Accounting Managing Director – Litigation Support & Economic Damages

Position Overview:

Crowe is seeking an experienced Managing Director to join our Disputes & Investigations team, specializing in economic damages, litigation support, and forensic accounting. This senior leadership role will focus on leading complex engagements, serving as a trusted advisor to clients and legal counsel, developing high-performing teams, and driving business growth.

The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise in economic damages and commercial litigation, strong relationships within the legal and business communities, and demonstrated success developing and expanding client engagements. This individual will also have experience serving as an expert witness or a clear path toward becoming a recognized testifying expert.

Key Responsibilities

Economic Damages & Litigation Support

• Lead complex economic damages, forensic accounting, and litigation support engagements involving lost profits, breach of contract, intellectual property, business interruption, shareholder disputes, and other commercial matters.
• Develop, review, and defend sophisticated financial, valuation, and damages models; evaluate opposing expert analyses and methodologies.
• Oversee litigation matters from initial assessment through expert reports, depositions, arbitration, and trial, including preparation of expert exhibits and demonstratives.
• Apply forensic accounting, investigative techniques, and data analytics to complex financial disputes, fraud investigations, and post-acquisition matters.
• Communicate complex financial findings clearly and credibly to clients, legal counsel, and other stakeholders, including providing expert testimony as appropriate.

Client & Engagement Leadership

• Serve as a trusted senior advisor to law firms, corporate clients, and executives on complex financial disputes and litigation strategies.
• Direct engagement execution, including scope, staffing, budgets, deliverables, quality, risk management, and client satisfaction.
• Manage multiple complex engagements while ensuring compliance with professional standards and firm requirements.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships while mentoring, developing, and leading professionals across the Disputes & Investigations practice.

Business Development & Practice Growth

• Originate and expand client engagements through established relationships with law firms, corporate clients, and referral sources.
• Drive growth of Crowe's economic damages and litigation support services, including identifying cross-selling opportunities across Advisory.
• Collaborate with firm leadership to identify new opportunities, strengthen client relationships, and expand market presence.
• Build external visibility and thought leadership through professional organizations, industry events, publications, and other market-facing activities.
• Develop or further establish a recognized reputation as an economic damages and litigation support expert.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in economic damages, litigation support, forensic accounting, valuation, or related dispute advisory services.
• Deep expertise in economic damages methodologies, financial modeling, and complex commercial litigation matters.
• Significant experience leading complex engagements, managing client and law-firm relationships, and overseeing teams, budgets, and deliverables.
• Demonstrated business development success, including an established professional network and the ability to originate and grow a sustainable book of business.
• Experience developing damages analyses, expert reports, and rebuttal analyses, and supporting deposition, arbitration, or trial proceedings.
• Strong leadership, analytical, and communication skills, with the ability to present complex financial conclusions to legal counsel, executives, and other stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, including advanced financial modeling capabilities.
• Ability to travel and work additional hours as business and client needs require.

Preferred Qualifications

• CPA, CFA, CFF, ABV, CVA, CFE, or other relevant professional certification; CPA preferred for accounting-focused expert work.
• Advanced degree in a relevant discipline.
• Prior expert witness testimony experience; candidates with substantial supporting-expert experience and a clear path toward testimony will also be considered.
• Experience with large financial and transactional datasets, advanced data analytics, and litigation-support tools.

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.

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How You Can Grow:
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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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