We are looking to place 1 (one) Forensic Auditor and 1 (one) Paralegal IV on a 2-year project at a Federal Agency headquartered in Detroit, MI. McNeal Professional Services, Inc. is a 25-year national Staffing Services firm. We offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, STD, LTD, Life Insurance, and 401(k) matching. Join our great team today!
If you are interested and available, please reply with an updated Word version of your resume and your salary requirements. Job Description:
Auditor (Investigative/Forensic)
An Auditor is necessary for the Client to pursue fraud of cases.
- Assist AUSAs and investigative agencies in conducting complex financial, forensic, statistical, identity-based, and program-integrity analyses in support of federal criminal investigations and prosecutions involving federal fund and program fraud.
- Analyze and audit program and benefit funding, eligibility determinations, application materials, identity documents, SNAP/Medicaid/Medicare/SSA records, UI claims, tax records, grant expenditures, procurement submissions, and other records relevant to benefit and program fraud, identity theft, and false-statement offenses.
- Conduct comprehensive analyses of benefit claims involving SNAP, Medicaid, Medicare, VA programs, SSA benefits, Unemployment Insurance, Federal Student Aid, and other federally funded benefit programs implicated in fraud schemes.
- Assist with data-driven analyses including pattern recognition, anomaly detection, clustering, and comparative analyses to identify suspicious activity, fraudulent claims, identity misuse, coordinated criminal activity, and large-scale fraud networks.
- Conduct loss-amount calculations for criminal charging, plea negotiations, restitution, forfeiture, and sentencing purposes, including calculations of actual and intended loss consistent with federal criminal law and sentencing guidelines. Perform asset tracing and financial-flow analysis to identify proceeds of fraud, concealment schemes, shell entities, commingled assets, and financial recoverability for restitution and forfeiture actions.
- Analyze large, complex datasets—including EBT transaction logs, UI payment histories, tax records, medical billing data, student aid disbursement records, IP logs, or identity-verification datasets—and organize digital and documentary evidence using analytical and visualization tools.
- Assist with financial and benefit-tracing analyses involving individuals, conspiracies, corporate entities, healthcare providers, contractors, grant recipients, and other targets or subjects of federal criminal investigations.
- Conduct forensic accounting analyses involving incomplete, altered, encrypted, falsified, voluminous, or electronically stored records; identify forged or manipulated documents; and reconcile conflicting data sources.
- Review and analyze banking records, tax records, medical provider documentation, claims submissions, contracts, invoices, benefit applications, eligibility certifications, correspondence, digital communications, metadata, identity documents, and other evidence relevant to criminal investigations.
- Prepare concise and accurate investigative reports, schedules, spreadsheets, charts, link-analysis diagrams, timelines, visualizations, data summaries, and other analytical materials for use in investigative decision-making, charging, plea negotiations, discovery, hearings, and trial.
- Assist with witness interviews, subject interviews, and investigative debriefings in coordination with Attorneys and federal agents, including analysis of statements for inconsistencies or corroboration with documentary evidence.
- Assist Attorneys, Client support staff, and investigative agencies with trial preparation, exhibit creation, demonstrative evidence preparation, discovery organization, and other litigation-support activities.
- Attend investigative meetings, witness interviews, proffers, hearings and trial proceedings as requested.
- Assist in preparing affidavits, subpoenas, declarations, evidentiary summaries, charts, and other materials supporting criminal complaints, search warrants, indictments, and trial presentations. Utilize electronic databases, government systems, law enforcement tools, and publicly available sources to identify assets, financial information, identity links, program participation data, and other relevant evidence.
- Assist with organizing, indexing, and managing both documentary and electronic evidence in accordance with federal discovery protocols and security requirements.
- Prepare interim and final investigative reports to summarize findings, document methodologies, and support prosecutorial decisions.
- Assist in developing analytical methodologies, forensic approaches, and investigative strategies related to benefit program reviews, identity misuse detection, forensic accounting, data analysis, and financial investigations. Work collaboratively with Attorneys, federal agents, agency personnel, and support staff to identify potential criminal violations, including theft of government funds, wire fraud, mail fraud, identity theft, aggravated identity theft, false statements, conspiracy, and related offenses.
- Utilize industry-standard financial, auditing, analytical, statistical, forensic, or visualization software tools. Perform other related duties as assigned and within scope.QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in accounting, finance, economics, statistics, data analytics, or related field.
- Minimum three (3) years of professional experience involving accounting, auditing, forensic accounting, financial investigations, statistical analysis, or related analytical work.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Access.
- U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain adjudication for the requisite background investigation.
- Preferred:
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA) Certification
- Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) Certification
Paralegal IV
- The work requires specialized knowledge and experience in complex fraud investigations and legal support.
- Responsible for organizing and processing high quantities of data and discovery documents, including electronic discovery. Responsible for completeness of discovery productions and for producing discovery.
- Compile, prepare, and summarize relevant materials for use by Attorneys in discovery and in preparation of motions, briefs and other legal documents.
- Seek and locate sources of information, in aid of criminal investigations and trials, through contact or correspondence with other departments and/or agencies of federal, state and local government.
- Gather factual material independently; read, annotate, and summarize transcripts, files and other factual aspects of the case; obtain financial and statistical information, agency records, court records and other public records; review and analyze documents and draft factual memoranda.
- Identify conflicting statements or areas requiring further investigation.
- Draft jury instructions and other trial documents for filing in court.
- Perform legal research.
- Write preliminary drafts of correspondence.
- Assist Attorneys in drafting court pleadings.
- Upload electronic documents and data onto document review platforms and organize folders for review. Participate in review and analysis of electronic documents.
- Redact documents and transcripts for discovery, including using electronic redaction.
- Prepare high volume of exhibits for trial using varied media formats.
- Provide critical assistance in trial preparations. Prepare documents, charts and visual materials for use in trials. Provide technical support, e.g., enlarging charts and photographs and marking exhibits.
- Provide automated litigation assistance to AUSAs in trial preparation and courtroom presentations. Utilize various software applications and graphics hardware such as scanners and plotters.
- Review, organize, and track responses to subpoenas and other legal process.
- Assist with internal status monitoring and reporting of investigations and prosecutions.
- Work closely with other members of case team, including assigned Attorneys
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum three (3) years of professional experience involving paralegal support services, including:
- Experience processing and reviewing complex discovery;
- Assisting in trial preparation by compiling, organizing, and indexing various evidentiary exhibits;
- Reviewing legal documents to extract information related to specific issues;
- Verifying citations and statutory references contained in legal documents;
- Utilizing various computerized database programs to include automated legal research tools and public information to organize extensive documents;
- Conducting legal research
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Access.
- U.S. Citizenship and ability to obtain adjudication for the requisite background investigation.
Ability to pass a government background and credit check.
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Pay: $95,000.00 - $125,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Experience:
- forensic accounting, auditing, financial investigations: 3 years (Required)
- paralegal support: 3 years (Required)
License/Certification:
- CPA, CFE, or CIRA for the Auditor position (Preferred)
Work Location: In person
