About This Role
Working as an onsite Junior Forensic Accountant, you will support Homeland Security Investigations' (HSI) Financial Crimes Unit (FCU) in Crystal City, VA. This role involves using financial forensic skills to investigate and analyze the financial infrastructure of various criminal organizations, their money movements, and the professional money laundering infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Use financial forensic skill sets to investigate and analyze all components of the financial infrastructure of Money Laundering Organizations (MLO), Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTO), and TCOs syndicates, their methods of criminal money movements, and the professional money laundering infrastructure facilitating these movements
- Participate in strategic planning sessions with financial investigative groups and task forces
- Assist HSI with conducting interviews during the course of the financial investigation
- Conduct analysis during the course of investigation support on financial transactions in order to accurately identify all parties involved in the criminal activity
- Conduct analysis and audit complex financial and business records to support Federal investigations and prosecutions
- Obtain raw criminal intelligence from various database resources and correlate the data, culminating in a full analysis of the information
- Input all researched and analyzed data into various professional products (i.e., Excel charts, reports, PowerPoint presentations, infographics, link charts) for statistical analysis data, and intelligence summaries for law enforcement use
- May serve as a factual witness during Federal prosecutions
Requirements
- A minimum 1 year of prior relevant experience
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university in accounting, finance, economics, criminal justice, or a related discipline
- Current passport
- Knowledge of procedures and techniques as generally prescribed under American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) disciplines
- Knowledge of accounting procedures and have experience in evaluating controls associated with complex business processes
- Experience conducting analysis of financial and business records to support federal investigations and prosecutions by using criminal investigative tools and other client-owned databases
- Knowledge to the enforcement of Title 18, Title 31 and other applicable statutes of the Federal Criminal Code, and the seizure and forfeiture of illegally derived property
- Experience in conducting research and analysis using open-source information, national and international databases, and corporate record filings to correlate and summarize data into a finished professional product
- General knowledge of HSI FCU
- Strong working knowledge of task forces and financial investigative groups and have experience in and exposure to investigations involving civil and criminal forfeitures, domestic and transnational organized crime, white collar crime, money laundering, drug trafficking offenses, illicit trade finance, and other related areas of activity