Forensic Accountant

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🇱🇰 Sri Lanka – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💲 Accountant / Accounting

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Oceans

201 - 500 employees

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

✈️ Travel

Logistics • Marketing • Travel

Oceans is a company that provides highly skilled, global remote talent to businesses in various sectors such as operations, finance, marketing, and administration. They are focused on fixing the outdated reputation of outsourcing by offering experienced and motivated professionals—referred to as 'Divers'—who seamlessly integrate into companies, significantly contributing to their success. Oceans prides itself on ensuring strong matches between their clients and Divers through a meticulous selection process, offering continuous upskilling, high retention rates, and exceptional client support. They cater to startups, e-commerce businesses, small businesses, and solopreneurs, enabling them to scale efficiently with top-notch remote talent.

📋 Description

• Analyze historical financial records, bank statements, and supporting documentation to identify findings and anomalies • Perform transaction tracing, fund-flow mapping, and asset recovery investigations across multi-entity corporate structures • Investigate accounting discrepancies, potential misstatements, and undocumented transactions • Lead forensic workstreams across concurrent engagements and deliver audit-ready findings • Assist court-appointed and voluntary liquidators with statutory liquidation and insolvency processes • Draft statutory reports, regulatory filings, creditor notices, and court documentation • Calculate creditor distribution waterfalls, priority repayment schedules, and liquidation payment allocations • Maintain case files, electronic documentation repositories, and statutory compliance schedules • Provide financial analysis and valuation support during corporate restructuring procedures • Reconcile general ledgers and reconstruct incomplete or compromised historical financial statements • Review financial records for completeness, consistency, and accuracy • Prepare working papers, lead schedules, and supporting schedules for insolvency and forensic files • Evaluate financial reporting treatments under US GAAP and/or IFRS • Draft correspondence to creditors, legal counsel, regulators, and external financial institutions • Liaise with external stakeholders and counterparties under engagement leadership • Deliver case updates and communicate investigative findings to cross-functional teams • Collaborate with international restructuring teams and external legal advisors • Use Microsoft 365, Xero, Harvest, Microsoft Copilot, and ChatGPT to streamline workflows and document analysis • Contribute to knowledge repositories and scalable AI-assisted forensic workflows • Work alongside liquidators, engagement partners, restructuring managers, legal counsel, forensic accountants, regulators, and creditors • Participate in in-person training during the first 3.5 weeks

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of progressive professional experience in audit, forensic accounting, corporate restructuring, insolvency, or financial investigations • Big Four or equivalent top-tier professional services firm background strongly preferred • Proven experience reconstructing incomplete accounting records, performing general ledger reviews, and conducting multi-layered transaction tracing or asset recovery investigations • Strong command of financial statement analysis and reconciliation principles • Familiarity with US GAAP, IFRS, creditor distribution waterfall mechanics, and statutory liquidation frameworks • Hands-on proficiency with cloud accounting platforms, preferably Xero • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills • Experience with time-tracking systems such as Harvest • Comfort using AI productivity tools such as Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT • Exceptional written English communication skills • Ability to draft formal statutory reports, creditor correspondence, and analytical briefing memos • Highly organized, exceptionally detail-oriented, and strong investigative reasoning • Intellectual agility and comfort navigating ambiguous, case-based environments • Ability to work a split shift with some overlap with the client’s time zone

🏖️ Benefits

• In-person training programs during the first 3.5 weeks • Benefits and compensation information shared during the offer process

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