Forensic Accountant

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Sri Lanka.

📋 Description

• Analyze historical financial documents, bank statements, and relevant records to uncover findings and discrepancies.

• Execute transaction tracing, fund-flow mapping, and asset recovery investigations within multi-entity corporate frameworks.

• Examine accounting irregularities, potential misstatements, and unrecorded transactions.

• Lead forensic workstreams across multiple engagements and produce audit-ready findings.

• Support court-appointed and voluntary liquidators in statutory liquidation and insolvency procedures.

• Prepare statutory reports, regulatory submissions, creditor notifications, and court documents.

• Calculate creditor distribution waterfalls, repayment priority schedules, and allocations for liquidation payments.

• Maintain case files, electronic document repositories, and schedules for statutory compliance.

• Provide financial analysis and valuation assistance during corporate restructuring activities.

• Reconcile general ledgers and reconstruct incomplete or compromised historical financial statements.

• Review financial records to ensure completeness, consistency, and accuracy.

• Create working papers, lead schedules, and supporting schedules for insolvency and forensic documentation.

• Assess financial reporting treatments in accordance with US GAAP and/or IFRS.

• Draft communications for creditors, legal counsel, regulators, and external financial institutions.

• Collaborate with external stakeholders and counterparties under engagement leadership.

• Provide case updates and convey investigative findings to cross-functional teams.

• Work in conjunction with international restructuring teams and external legal advisors.

• Utilize Microsoft 365, Xero, Harvest, Microsoft Copilot, and ChatGPT to enhance workflows and document analysis.

• Contribute to knowledge repositories and scalable AI-assisted forensic processes.

• Collaborate with liquidators, engagement partners, restructuring managers, legal counsel, forensic accountants, regulators, and creditors.

• Engage in in-person training during the initial 3.5 weeks.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of progressive experience in audit, forensic accounting, corporate restructuring, insolvency, or financial investigations.

• Background in a Big Four or equivalent top-tier professional services firm is strongly preferred.

• Demonstrated experience in reconstructing incomplete accounting records, performing general ledger reviews, and conducting complex transaction tracing or asset recovery investigations.

• Strong understanding of financial statement analysis and reconciliation principles.

• Familiarity with US GAAP, IFRS, creditor distribution waterfall mechanics, and statutory liquidation frameworks.

• Proficient in using cloud accounting platforms, preferably Xero.

• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel.

• Experience with time-tracking systems, such as Harvest.

• Comfortable using AI productivity tools like Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT.

• Exceptional written communication skills in English.

• Ability to draft formal statutory reports, creditor communications, and analytical briefing documents.

• Highly organized, exceptionally detail-oriented, with strong investigative reasoning skills.

• Intellectual agility and comfort in navigating ambiguous, case-based situations.

• Ability to work a split shift with some overlap with the client’s time zone.

🏝️ Benefits

• In-person training programs during the initial 3.5 weeks.

• Benefits and compensation details shared during the offer process.