- Balance work from home with collaborative team connection days
- Define your career- your terms with clear, genuine progression prospects
- 9-day fortnight with no salary reduction

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About this role

We are looking for a Manager to join our collegiate, inclusive Forensic Accounting team. You will apply your experience and expertise across a broad range of forensic engagements, including contentious valuations, commercial loss and damage claims, insurance events and accounting reviews. Whilst our team does undertake corporate & employee investigations and fraud matters, this role is exclusively for dispute advisory assignments. There are extensive opportunities for career progression in this role – you’ll enjoy a high level of autonomy and visibility, with direct access to Partners and opportunity to develop both personally and professionally, on your own terms.

Some of the exciting projects this team has recently worked on include:

- Valuation of a minority interest in a large manufacturer as part of Shareholder Oppression proceedings
- Assessment of economic loss in large insurance litigation claims
- Expert accounting input and assistance to support commercial litigation proceedings
- Complex valuations for family law and estate disputes
- Disputes arising under a purchase and sale agreement for the sale of a chain of retail stores,



requiring Expert Determination

Key responsibilities

- Advise on a broad range of forensic engagements, including business valuations, commercial loss and damage claims, insurance events, and accounting reviews - involving preparation of detailed calculations, financial analysis and drafting of reports
- Build and maintain beneficial stakeholder relationships, including active communication with instructing solicitors and clients
- Undertake detailed review and analysis of the financial performance of businesses and provide meaningful interpretation
- Participate in business development and practice management activities

Skills and experience

- CA / CPA / CFA qualification
- Qualified accounting experience gained within a public practice environment
- Strong analytical skills and mindset, complemented by lateral and critical thinking capability
- Conscientious with a solid degree of accuracy and keen eye for detail
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills
- Well-developed skills in Microsoft Office, including Excel and Word

Desirable

- Ideally, candidates with a forensic accounting background should have experience preparing valuation reports and / or commercial loss and damage reports for disputes
- Whilst experience in forensic accounting is preferred, candidates with other public practice experience (e.g. audit, business services, corporate finance, or tax) who have developed an interest in forensic accounting and / or valuations are welcome to apply for this role.

If you’re interested in this role but don’t feel that you match every single one of our requirements, we would still love to hear from you and explore the unique skillset and attributes that you can bring to the team.

Remarkable perks that put you first:

- 9-day fortnight with no salary reduction
- Funded professional membership and study assistance
- Up to 26 weeks’ paid parental leave | paid secondary carers’ leave
- Fully funded gym membership | Health Insurance discounts
- And many more!

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📌 Manager, Forensic Accounting (Melbourne)
🏢 Grant Thornton Australia
📍 Melbourne