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Forensic accountant roles qualify as H-1B visa specialty occupations, requiring at least a bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field. Employers in public accounting, financial services, and government contracting regularly sponsor candidates through H-1B, and in some cases EB-2 or EB-3 green card pathways.
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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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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Visa Sponsorship as a Forensic Accountant
Document your forensic accounting credentials early
Gather your transcripts, CPA license or CFF designation, and any court-recognized expert witness records before applying. USCIS scrutinizes whether a forensic accountant role genuinely requires a specific degree, so your credentials need to map clearly to the specialty occupation definition.
Target firms with active litigation support practices
Big Four and regional accounting firms with dedicated forensic or dispute advisory divisions sponsor H-1B candidates far more consistently than general finance employers. Focus on practices that handle SEC investigations, bankruptcy matters, or fraud litigation, since these roles most clearly satisfy specialty occupation requirements.
Use OFLC Wage Search to verify your wage tier
Forensic accountants often fall into wage Level II or III depending on experience and industry. Run the OFLC Wage Search for your specific metro area before negotiations, so you can flag immediately if an employer's LCA wage offer falls below the DOL prevailing wage for your location.
Find sponsors through Migrate Mate's verified employer data
Search Migrate Mate for employers with confirmed H-1B LCA filing history in accounting and financial investigation roles. This filters out firms that claim they sponsor but have no actual DOL filing record, saving you from pursuing dead-end applications.
Clarify your role title with the hiring manager before the offer
Job postings often list 'Forensic Accountant' interchangeably with 'Fraud Analyst' or 'Financial Investigator.' The title on your LCA must match your actual duties. Ambiguity here triggers RFEs from USCIS, so get the exact job title and duty description confirmed in writing before your employer files.
Ask about PERM timing if you want permanent residence
Firms in litigation consulting sometimes delay or avoid sponsoring PERM green cards due to recruitment advertising requirements. Ask directly in final-round interviews whether the firm has a policy on EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship, since H-1B status alone maxes out at six years without an approved I-140.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a forensic accountant role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, forensic accountant positions almost always qualify. USCIS looks for roles that normally require at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field. Accounting, finance, or fraud examination degrees satisfy this requirement. Roles tied to litigation support, financial crime investigations, or SEC compliance carry the strongest specialty occupation arguments because the technical nature of the work is well-documented.
Which visa types do forensic accountant candidates typically use for U.S. sponsorship?
H-1B is the most common path, covering initial three-year status extendable to six years. Australian nationals can use the E-3 visa, which has no lottery and renews every two years. Canadian and Mexican nationals may qualify under TN visa if the role fits the USMCA accountant category. For longer-term residence, employers can sponsor EB-2 or EB-3 green cards, which require PERM labor certification.
How do I find forensic accountant employers who actually sponsor visas?
Browse forensic accountant roles on Migrate Mate, which lists employers with verified sponsorship history so you can focus on firms that have filed LCAs before rather than those that only claim they sponsor.
Does having a CPA or CFF certification strengthen my H-1B petition as a forensic accountant?
It does, particularly for USCIS evidentiary purposes. A CPA license or Certified Fraud Examiner credential reinforces that the role requires specialized professional training beyond a general bachelor's degree. For forensic accountants working on expert witness assignments or SEC matters, professional certifications also help counter any RFE arguing the position could be filled by someone without a directly related degree.
Can a forensic accountant on H-1B change employers without losing status?
Yes. Under H-1B portability rules, you can start work with a new employer once the new petition is filed with USCIS, as long as you're in valid H-1B status at the time. The new employer must file a fresh I-129 petition with a certified LCA reflecting the new role, location, and prevailing wage. You don't need to wait for the new petition to be approved before starting.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Forensic Accountant jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.