Forensic Accountant

This position is located in the Enforcement Division - Trade Practices in Oklahoma City, OK.

About the Role

Positions in this job family are assigned responsibilities for collecting and analyzing financial data for criminal investigations. The incumbent seeks and reports financial irregularities according to state and federal laws.

Responsibilities

• Independently conducts and assists with complex financial, regulatory, and administrative investigations by collecting, auditing, analyzing, and interpreting financial records, business documents, ownership information, licensing records, regulatory filings, and other data to identify violations of Oklahoma statutes, administrative rules, and ABLE requirements, including hidden ownership, trade practice violations, licensing fraud, brand registration issues, pricing violations, and other financial irregularities.
• Prepares investigative reports, financial analyses, and evidentiary exhibits based on findings.
• Reviews required reports submitted to ABLE's Brand Registration Unit by licensees—including direct wine shipper reports, monthly price postings, brand registrations, short-supply reports, closeout requests, carrier reports, and other regulatory filings—to identify trends and determine compliance with Oklahoma statutes, administrative rules, ABLE requirements, and other regulatory mandates.
• Serves as ABLE's resident expert in financial investigations by providing expert consultation to Enforcement, Legal, Licensing, and agency leadership regarding financial investigations, accounting principles, business structures, ownership relationships, regulatory compliance, and data analysis, and by testifying to findings in administrative and/or criminal hearings.
• Provides training to agents and other ABLE personnel regarding financial investigations.
• Investigates various white-collar crimes focusing on forensic accounting.
• Independently conducts or assists other auditors with complex, forensic financial investigations including forensic financial audits, analyzing bank records/documents and other financial records for evidence and inconsistencies.
• Investigates and assists with cases regarding fraud, money laundering, bribery, embezzlement, and other crimes of financial irregularities regarding state and federal laws.
• Testifies in state and federal courts.
• Interacts with other case participants including investigating agents, personnel, requesting law enforcement agencies, prosecutors, judges, and defense attorneys. May also interact with crime victims, suspects, and members of the media.
• Prepares and assists with search warrant preparation.
• Participates in search warrant service and evidence collection.
• Writes audit reports and creates graphs and charts to explain findings.
• Provides training to agents and requesting agencies regarding white-collar crimes.

Requirements

• Knowledge of Oklahoma and Federal criminal law statutes, accounting review and governing boards, Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA®) standards, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) Policies and Procedures, and protocols for conducting forensic financial audits; and of financial laws and regulations.
• Skill in utilizing investigative techniques; using provided data to analyze if crimes have been committed; providing documentation; assigning a total dollar figure or estimating a value of loss for the crime; writing reports and creating graphic illustrations to convey the crime, fraud, or embezzlement to assist prosecutors; and isolating and documenting specific examples of the scheme or illegal activity.
• Ability to determine the accounting data that should and should not be included in reports; detect inaccuracies; verbally communicate effectively to a variety of audiences; and maintain confidentiality.

Qualifications

Education and experience requirements consist of a bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business, or a related field plus one (1) year of general accounting work. Requires licensure as a Certified Public Accountant; and/or a Certified Forensic Auditor; and/or a Certified Fraud Examiner.

Some agencies give preference to incumbents with a Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training (CLEET) certification as a commissioned law enforcement agent. Some agencies require incumbents to be age 21 or older. The Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation may accept, if the bachelor’s degree is not in accounting or a related finance field, a bachelor’s degree in a related field such as Criminal Justice or Business Administration, if the incumbent has accounting experience combined with financial and fraud investigations experience.

Incumbent typically has one (1) to three (3) years of general accounting experience, typically as a general accountant.

Successful applicants must be willing to submit to a drug screen and a thorough background investigation. Certain events automatically disqualify an applicant, such as felony conviction; admission of an undetected crime that, if known, would have been a felony charge; failure to pay federal or state income tax; positive confirmed drug urine test; illegal use of a controlled substance within certain time frames.

Pay

Annual Salary: $90,000.00

Schedule

Full time, regular position.