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H-1B visa jobs for forensic accountants sit squarely within specialty occupation territory: the role requires at least a bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a closely related field. Employers in litigation support, Big Four advisory, and federal contracting regularly sponsor H-1B petitions for forensic accountants, making this one of the stronger paths for international professionals in financial investigation.
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BRG brings together industry specialists and leading experts in accounting, damages analysis, economics, finance, valuation, data analytics, and strategic analysis. Our Economics, Disputes & Investigations community helps clients address complex business challenges through rigorous analysis, independent perspectives, and clear, practical insights.
About the Role
BRG’s Forensic Accounting practice is seeking a Senior Managing Consultant or Associate Director in San Francisco to lead complex financial dispute and investigation engagements and contribute to the growth of the practice. Working closely with Managing Director Frank Wisehart and other experienced professionals, this individual will manage forensic accounting, business valuation, lost profits, and economic damages analyses supporting expert opinions in litigation and other dispute proceedings.
Engagements may involve fraud allegations, disputed accounting methodologies, compliance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), alter-ego allegations, lost profits, business valuation, and economic damages. The role emphasizes rigorous, standards-based analysis and clear documentation that supports expert reports and testimony in court, arbitration, and regulatory proceedings.
This role is designed for a professional seeking a long-term career that combines technical excellence, engagement leadership, and business development, with the goal of developing into a testifying expert. The successful candidate will support established experts while progressively building a defined area of expertise, relationships with counsel and clients, and a professional reputation. Progression toward independent expert engagements and testimony will depend on demonstrated expertise, readiness, and appropriate engagement opportunities; prior testimony experience or an established book of business is not required.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead engagement planning and execution, including defining analytical workstreams, developing work plans and budgets, allocating resources, and managing timelines in coordination with engagement leaders and counsel.
- Direct and perform forensic analyses of financial statements, general ledgers, tax returns, transaction-level data, and other records to investigate alleged fraud, financial irregularities, and disputed accounting practices.
- Evaluate disputed accounting treatments and methodologies against applicable professional standards, including GAAP, and develop well-supported findings for review by engagement experts.
- Lead the development and review of financial models supporting lost-profits calculations, economic damages analyses, and business valuations, including discounted cash flow analyses where appropriate.
- Exercise independent analytical judgment in evaluating historical performance, forecasts, causation-related financial issues, and assumptions underlying claimed losses; test alternative scenarios and identify limitations.
- Take a leading role in drafting expert reports and preparing exhibits and supporting schedules, ensuring that evidence, analytical methods, assumptions, and conclusions are clearly connected and subject to expert review.
- Work closely with testifying experts and counsel to prepare for depositions, hearings, arbitration, trial, and regulatory proceedings; evaluate opposing experts’ methodologies and calculations and develop clear analyses of disputed issues.
- Oversee analyses of intercompany transactions, related-party balances, and financial relationships among entities in matters involving alter-ego allegations, without making legal determinations; direct supporting company, industry, and economic research.
- Build and maintain defensible analytical records, including reproducible workpapers, source references, and documentation of professional judgments, so analyses can withstand detailed review and challenge.
- Supervise, review, and mentor junior professionals, providing clear direction, substantive feedback, and quality control over analyses, models, and written deliverables.
- Manage day-to-day relationships with counsel and clients, communicate complex findings clearly, and identify engagement risks, scope changes, and opportunities to provide additional value.
- Contribute to business development through proposals, engagement scoping, relationship-building, networking, and collaboration across BRG practices; progressively develop referral relationships and new engagement opportunities.
- Develop a focused area of expertise through increasingly substantive expert support, publications, presentations, and professional participation, progressing toward independent expert assignments and testimony as qualifications and opportunities permit. Travel as required by engagement and practice needs.
Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related discipline is required. A master’s degree in accounting or completion of a combined bachelor’s and master’s accounting program is preferred.
- Senior Managing Consultant: Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in forensic accounting, litigation consulting, financial investigation, valuation, or related advisory work.
- Associate Director: Minimum of 9 years of progressive experience in forensic accounting, litigation consulting, financial investigation, valuation, or related advisory work.
- A CPA designation is strongly preferred, particularly for candidates focused on accounting disputes and GAAP-related matters.
- Advanced knowledge of accounting principles, financial statement analysis, and relevant professional standards, with the ability to apply that knowledge to disputed accounting and financial issues.
- Demonstrated ability to structure complex analyses, evaluate competing methodologies, exercise sound professional judgment, and develop clear, well-supported conclusions.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and financial modeling skills, with proficiency in Word and PowerPoint and the ability to oversee accurate, efficient analysis of complex financial data.
- Excellent writing and presentation skills, including experience preparing substantive reports or client deliverables and explaining complex financial issues to attorneys, clients, and other nontechnical audiences.
- Demonstrated leadership, attention to detail, professional skepticism, and commitment to independence, objectivity, confidentiality, and high-quality work.
- A clear interest in building a long-term consulting practice, developing new business and client relationships, and progressing toward serving as a testifying expert, alongside the ability to manage multiple engagements and teams.
Preferred Experience
- Experience leading accounting disputes, fraud investigations, GAAP compliance analyses, lost-profits calculations, business valuations, or expert-witness support engagements.
- Experience drafting substantial portions of expert reports, supporting deposition or trial preparation, or presenting technical findings to counsel and clients.
- Participation in proposals, pitches, professional associations, publications, speaking engagements, or other activities demonstrating the potential to build a market presence and referral relationships. Familiarity with data analytics tools such as Power Query, SQL, Python, or R is also beneficial.
- Relevant forensic accounting or valuation credentials, such as the CFE, CFF, ABV, or CVA, or progress toward obtaining them.
About BRG
BRG combines world-leading academic credentials with world-tested business expertise and purpose-built emerging technologies. Our culture centers on agility and connectivity which sets us apart and gets you ahead.
At BRG, our professionals include specialist consultants, industry experts, renowned academics, and leading-edge data scientists. Together, they bring a diversity of real-world experience, data, and human and artificial intelligence, to economics, disputes, and investigations; corporate finance; and performance improvement services that address the most complex challenges facing organizations across the globe.
Our unique structure nurtures the interdisciplinary relationships that give us the edge, laying the groundwork for more informed insights and more original, incisive thinking. When paired with our global reach and resources, our diverse perspectives and technical capabilities make us uniquely capable to address our clients’ challenges. We get results because we know how to apply our thinking to your world.
At BRG, we don’t just show you what’s possible. We’re built to help you make it happen.
BRG is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.
We Do Consulting Differently
BRG brings together industry specialists and leading experts in accounting, damages analysis, economics, finance, valuation, data analytics, and strategic analysis. Our Economics, Disputes & Investigations community helps clients address complex business challenges through rigorous analysis, independent perspectives, and clear, practical insights.
About the Role
BRG’s Forensic Accounting practice is seeking a Senior Managing Consultant or Associate Director in San Francisco to lead complex financial dispute and investigation engagements and contribute to the growth of the practice. Working closely with Managing Director Frank Wisehart and other experienced professionals, this individual will manage forensic accounting, business valuation, lost profits, and economic damages analyses supporting expert opinions in litigation and other dispute proceedings.
Engagements may involve fraud allegations, disputed accounting methodologies, compliance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), alter-ego allegations, lost profits, business valuation, and economic damages. The role emphasizes rigorous, standards-based analysis and clear documentation that supports expert reports and testimony in court, arbitration, and regulatory proceedings.
This role is designed for a professional seeking a long-term career that combines technical excellence, engagement leadership, and business development, with the goal of developing into a testifying expert. The successful candidate will support established experts while progressively building a defined area of expertise, relationships with counsel and clients, and a professional reputation. Progression toward independent expert engagements and testimony will depend on demonstrated expertise, readiness, and appropriate engagement opportunities; prior testimony experience or an established book of business is not required.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead engagement planning and execution, including defining analytical workstreams, developing work plans and budgets, allocating resources, and managing timelines in coordination with engagement leaders and counsel.
- Direct and perform forensic analyses of financial statements, general ledgers, tax returns, transaction-level data, and other records to investigate alleged fraud, financial irregularities, and disputed accounting practices.
- Evaluate disputed accounting treatments and methodologies against applicable professional standards, including GAAP, and develop well-supported findings for review by engagement experts.
- Lead the development and review of financial models supporting lost-profits calculations, economic damages analyses, and business valuations, including discounted cash flow analyses where appropriate.
- Exercise independent analytical judgment in evaluating historical performance, forecasts, causation-related financial issues, and assumptions underlying claimed losses; test alternative scenarios and identify limitations.
- Take a leading role in drafting expert reports and preparing exhibits and supporting schedules, ensuring that evidence, analytical methods, assumptions, and conclusions are clearly connected and subject to expert review.
- Work closely with testifying experts and counsel to prepare for depositions, hearings, arbitration, trial, and regulatory proceedings; evaluate opposing experts’ methodologies and calculations and develop clear analyses of disputed issues.
- Oversee analyses of intercompany transactions, related-party balances, and financial relationships among entities in matters involving alter-ego allegations, without making legal determinations; direct supporting company, industry, and economic research.
- Build and maintain defensible analytical records, including reproducible workpapers, source references, and documentation of professional judgments, so analyses can withstand detailed review and challenge.
- Supervise, review, and mentor junior professionals, providing clear direction, substantive feedback, and quality control over analyses, models, and written deliverables.
- Manage day-to-day relationships with counsel and clients, communicate complex findings clearly, and identify engagement risks, scope changes, and opportunities to provide additional value.
- Contribute to business development through proposals, engagement scoping, relationship-building, networking, and collaboration across BRG practices; progressively develop referral relationships and new engagement opportunities.
- Develop a focused area of expertise through increasingly substantive expert support, publications, presentations, and professional participation, progressing toward independent expert assignments and testimony as qualifications and opportunities permit. Travel as required by engagement and practice needs.
Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related discipline is required. A master’s degree in accounting or completion of a combined bachelor’s and master’s accounting program is preferred.
- Senior Managing Consultant: Minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in forensic accounting, litigation consulting, financial investigation, valuation, or related advisory work.
- Associate Director: Minimum of 9 years of progressive experience in forensic accounting, litigation consulting, financial investigation, valuation, or related advisory work.
- A CPA designation is strongly preferred, particularly for candidates focused on accounting disputes and GAAP-related matters.
- Advanced knowledge of accounting principles, financial statement analysis, and relevant professional standards, with the ability to apply that knowledge to disputed accounting and financial issues.
- Demonstrated ability to structure complex analyses, evaluate competing methodologies, exercise sound professional judgment, and develop clear, well-supported conclusions.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and financial modeling skills, with proficiency in Word and PowerPoint and the ability to oversee accurate, efficient analysis of complex financial data.
- Excellent writing and presentation skills, including experience preparing substantive reports or client deliverables and explaining complex financial issues to attorneys, clients, and other nontechnical audiences.
- Demonstrated leadership, attention to detail, professional skepticism, and commitment to independence, objectivity, confidentiality, and high-quality work.
- A clear interest in building a long-term consulting practice, developing new business and client relationships, and progressing toward serving as a testifying expert, alongside the ability to manage multiple engagements and teams.
Preferred Experience
- Experience leading accounting disputes, fraud investigations, GAAP compliance analyses, lost-profits calculations, business valuations, or expert-witness support engagements.
- Experience drafting substantial portions of expert reports, supporting deposition or trial preparation, or presenting technical findings to counsel and clients.
- Participation in proposals, pitches, professional associations, publications, speaking engagements, or other activities demonstrating the potential to build a market presence and referral relationships. Familiarity with data analytics tools such as Power Query, SQL, Python, or R is also beneficial.
- Relevant forensic accounting or valuation credentials, such as the CFE, CFF, ABV, or CVA, or progress toward obtaining them.
About BRG
BRG combines world-leading academic credentials with world-tested business expertise and purpose-built emerging technologies. Our culture centers on agility and connectivity which sets us apart and gets you ahead.
At BRG, our professionals include specialist consultants, industry experts, renowned academics, and leading-edge data scientists. Together, they bring a diversity of real-world experience, data, and human and artificial intelligence, to economics, disputes, and investigations; corporate finance; and performance improvement services that address the most complex challenges facing organizations across the globe.
Our unique structure nurtures the interdisciplinary relationships that give us the edge, laying the groundwork for more informed insights and more original, incisive thinking. When paired with our global reach and resources, our diverse perspectives and technical capabilities make us uniquely capable to address our clients’ challenges. We get results because we know how to apply our thinking to your world.
At BRG, we don’t just show you what’s possible. We’re built to help you make it happen.
BRG is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.
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Align your credentials to SOC 13-2011
USCIS evaluates your degree against the specific duties listed in the I-129 petition. Pull the O*NET profile for Accountants and Auditors to confirm your coursework in forensic accounting, fraud examination, or financial auditing maps directly to that classification before applying.
Target litigation support and advisory practices
Law firms with dedicated forensic practices and Big Four advisory divisions file H-1B visa petitions for forensic accountants more consistently than general corporate employers. Focus your search on employers with established economic damages or fraud investigation units rather than broad accounting departments.
Search verified H-1B sponsors on Migrate Mate
Filter your job search to employers with confirmed H-1B LCA filing history in forensic or investigative accounting roles. Migrate Mate shows which employers have sponsored roles in this classification, so you're not applying blind to companies with no sponsorship track record.
Verify prevailing wage before negotiating offers
Your employer must certify your offered salary meets the DOL prevailing wage for your worksite location and experience level. Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the Level I through Level IV wage for SOC 13-2011 in your city before you enter salary discussions.
Confirm each worksite has a certified LCA
Forensic accountants frequently work across multiple client sites or court locations. Each distinct worksite address requires its own certified Labor Condition Application. If your role involves rotating engagements, clarify with your employer whether a blanket or multiple LCAs are filed before your petition is submitted.
Use your CFE designation as a specialty occupation anchor
If you hold a Certified Fraud Examiner credential, include it prominently in your offer letter and I-129 supporting documentation. CFE holders can demonstrate that the role demands specialized knowledge beyond a generalist accounting degree, which strengthens the specialty occupation argument for USCIS.
H-1B Visa Forensic Accountant: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a forensic accountant role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes. Forensic accounting requires at least a bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a directly related field, which meets the USCIS specialty occupation standard. Employers strengthen the petition by ensuring the job description emphasizes degree-specific duties such as financial fraud analysis, litigation support, or quantitative damages modeling, rather than general bookkeeping tasks.
Which types of employers sponsor H-1B visas for forensic accountants?
Big Four and mid-tier advisory firms, economic consulting practices, federal contractors with forensic audit contracts, and law firms with dedicated forensic accounting units are the most active sponsors. Government contractors working on fraud investigation or asset recovery mandates also sponsor regularly. You can browse employers with verified H-1B filing history in this field on Migrate Mate.
How does the H-1B cap and selection process affect forensic accountants?
Most private-sector forensic accounting roles are subject to the annual H-1B cap. The selection rules have changed recently, so check USCIS for current registration mechanics. One useful strategy is targeting cap-exempt employers such as universities, nonprofit research institutions, or government-affiliated entities, which can file H-1B petitions outside the annual cap entirely.
Can I work at a client site under my H-1B as a forensic accountant?
Yes, but each distinct worksite requires a separately certified Labor Condition Application filed with DOL before you begin work there. If your role involves frequent client rotations or court appearances at different locations, your employer must file or amend LCAs accordingly. Failing to cover a worksite with a certified LCA is a compliance violation.
What documentation strengthens an H-1B petition for a forensic accountant?
A detailed job description tying every core duty to degree-level accounting knowledge is essential. Include evidence of your academic credentials, any professional certifications such as CPA or CFE, and prior work product in fraud examination or litigation support. If your degree is from outside the U.S., a credential evaluation confirming equivalency to a U.S. bachelor's in accounting significantly reduces the risk of a Request for Evidence from USCIS.