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With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you’re trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.\nJob Description:\nForensic Accounting Managing Director - Litigation Support & Economic Damages\nEssential Job Functions:\nEconomic Damages, Litigation & Forensic Analysis:\nLead complex economic damages and financial analyses in commercial disputes, including lost profits, breach of contract, intellectual property, business interruption, shareholder and other business disputes.\nDevelop, review, and defend sophisticated damages, valuation, and financial models using financial statements, transaction-level data, forecasts, market information, and other relevant evidence.\nEvaluate opposing expert analyses, damages theories, assumptions, and methodologies; identify strengths, weaknesses, and alternative approaches.\nLead litigation support engagements from early case assessment through expert reports, depositions, arbitration, and trial, including preparation of expert exhibits and demonstratives.\nApply forensic accounting and investigative techniques where disputes involve allegations of fraud, accounting irregularities, asset tracing, or other complex financial issues.\nUse quantitative analysis and data analytics to support damages calculations, forensic investigations, post-acquisition disputes, and other litigation-related inquiries.\nClient & Engagement Management:\nConduct engagements in compliance with applicable professional, legal, regulatory, and firm requirements.\nManage a broad spectrum of matters involving investigations, litigation support, post-acquisition disputes, and insurance claims.\nLead a broad spectrum of matters involving economic damages, litigation support, forensic accounting investigations, post-acquisition disputes, and other complex financial disputes.\nPosition the team for successful engagement execution, quality results, and client satisfaction by clearly working within project parameters, managing resources and processes, and anticipating/resolving issues.\nServe as a senior advisor to clients and counsel, translating complex financial and accounting issues into clear, defensible analyses and practical litigation strategies.\nLead engagement execution, including scope, workplan, staffing, budgets, quality, risk management, expert-report development, and client satisfaction.\nManage engagement setup and completion activities, including conflicts, engagement letters, billing, collections, and other engagement administration.\nDevelop and maintain trusted relationships with outside counsel, in-house legal teams, executives, and other senior client stakeholders.\nRecruit, mentor, and develop professionals across the damages and broader Disputes & Investigations team, including development of future expert witnesses.\nBusiness Development:\nOriginate and expand economic damages and litigation support engagements through an established network of law firms, corporate clients, and referral relationships.\nBuild Crowe’s market position in economic damages and litigation support, with an expectation of developing into or continuing as a recognized testifying expert.\nIdentify opportunities to expand existing client relationships and cross-sell Crowe capabilities across forensic accounting, investigations, digital forensics, post-acquisition disputes, and other Advisory services.\nCollaborate with Crowe partners and leaders across Advisory to identify disputes, litigation, and expert-services opportunities within existing client relationships.\nMaintain and expand an external network of attorneys, experts, corporate decision-makers, and industry contacts to generate opportunities and strengthen Crowe’s brand in the disputes market.\nRepresent Crowe through relevant legal, accounting, damages, and industry organizations, conferences, CLE/CPE programs, publications, and other thought-leadership activities.\nDevelop a recognized area of expertise within economic damages and litigation support and contribute to Crowe industry and market initiatives.\nReporting & Communication:\nDraft, review, and support expert reports, rebuttal reports, declarations, presentations, and trial demonstratives that clearly communicate complex damages and financial analyses.\nPresent complex financial concepts and conclusions to attorneys, executives, boards, arbitrators, judges, and juries in a clear and credible manner.\nServe as a senior client and counsel contact and, based on experience, provide deposition, arbitration, and trial testimony as an expert witness.\nBasic Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business, or a related quantitative field required; advanced degree is a plus.\nCPA, CFA, CFF, ABV, CVA, CFE, or other relevant professional credential strongly preferred. A CPA is preferred for candidates whose expert work is primarily accounting-based.\nMinimum of ten (10) years of progressive experience in economic damages, litigation support, forensic accounting, valuation, dispute advisory, or related professional services, including significant responsibility for complex matters.\nSignificant professional-services experience with demonstrated responsibility for law-firm and client relationships, engagement leadership, team development, and financial performance.\nDeep knowledge of economic damages methodologies and financial analysis, with experience in areas such as lost profits, breach of contract, intellectual property, business valuation, business interruption, shareholder disputes, or other complex commercial litigation.\nDemonstrated experience developing or managing complex damages models and contributing substantially to expert reports, rebuttal analyses, deposition preparation, arbitration, and trial. Prior expert testimony is strongly preferred, but candidates with substantial second-chair or supporting-expert experience and a clear trajectory toward testimony will be considered.\nProven ability to manage multiple complex engagements simultaneously, including scope, budgets, staffing, deliverables, expert deadlines, risk management, and client/counsel expectations.\nDemonstrated business development success, including an established network of attorneys and/or corporate relationships, a track record of originating or expanding engagements, and the ability to build a sustainable book of business at Crowe.\nStrong leadership and people-management experience, including supervising, mentoring, developing, and evaluating professionals and building teams capable of supporting complex expert matters.\nExceptional analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to evaluate incomplete or conflicting financial evidence and develop independent, defensible conclusions.\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience communicating complex damages and financial analyses to legal counsel, senior executives, and other sophisticated stakeholders.\nExperience analyzing large and complex financial and transactional data sets and using those analyses to support damages opinions, forensic conclusions, or litigation strategy.\nAdvanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint; experience with financial modeling, data analytics, and litigation-support tools is preferred.\nAbility to travel and work additional hours as required by client needs, expert-report deadlines, depositions, arbitrations, and trials.\nWe 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.\nIn 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.\nThe 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.Our Benefits:\nYour exceptional people experience starts here. At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We care about our people and offer employees a comprehensive total rewards package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!\nHow You Can Grow:\nWe will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!\nMore about Crowe:\nCrowe 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.\nThe 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)\nCrowe LLP and Crowe Advisory LLC (and their respective subsidiary entities) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.\nCrowe LLP and Crowe Advisory LLC (and their respective subsidiary entities) does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity or any other third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes or candidates submitted to Crowe, or any employee or owner of Crowe without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered the property of Crowe, and free of charge.\nCrowe will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act.\nPlease visit our webpage to see notices of the various state and local Ban-the-Box laws and Fair Chance Ordinances, where applicable.\nWe are committed to a merit-based hiring process, evaluating all candidates consistently using objective, job-related criteria such as relevant experience, demonstrated skills, measurable impact, and alignment 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