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DiverseGOV is recruiting an experienced investigative/forensic auditor to support fraud prosecution matters for a federal contract in Detroit, Michigan. The role supports Assistant United States Attorneys, investigative agencies, and case teams by analyzing financial records, federal benefit/program data, identity-related materials, banking and tax records, claims data, grant expenditures, procurement submissions, and other evidence tied to federal fraud investigations and prosecutions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Conduct complex financial, forensic, statistical, identity-based, and program-integrity analyses in support of criminal investigations and prosecutions involving federal funds and programs.
• Analyze benefit and program records including SNAP, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, VA programs, federal student aid, tax refunds/rebates/credits, grants, procurement submissions, and related records.
• Perform data-driven analysis such as pattern recognition, anomaly detection, clustering, comparative analysis, suspicious activity identification, identity misuse analysis, and fraud network analysis.
• Prepare loss calculations for charging decisions, plea negotiations, restitution, forfeiture, sentencing, and related litigation needs.
• Conduct asset tracing and financial-flow analysis to identify fraud proceeds, concealment methods, shell entities, commingled assets, and potential recovery sources.
• Review banking records, tax information, claims submissions, contracts, invoices, benefit applications, eligibility records, correspondence, metadata, digital communications, and identity documents.
• Prepare investigative reports, schedules, spreadsheets, charts, timelines, link-analysis diagrams, data summaries, visualizations, and other analytical materials for investigative and litigation use.
• Assist with witness interviews, subject interviews, investigative meetings, hearings, trial preparation, exhibit creation, discovery organization, affidavits, subpoenas, declarations, complaints, warrants, indictments, and trial presentations.
• Use electronic databases, government systems, law enforcement resources, public records, analytical software, auditing tools, forensic tools, statistical tools, and visualization tools as required.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in accounting, finance, economics, statistics, data analytics, or a related field.
• Minimum of three years of professional experience involving accounting, auditing, forensic accounting, financial investigations, statistical analysis, or related analytical work.
• Demonstrated ability to support complex fraud, financial, benefit/program integrity, identity misuse, or data-heavy investigations.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Access.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain adjudication for the required federal background investigation.
• Ability to work with sensitive and confidential investigative information in a secure, professional, and compliant manner.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
• Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).
• Experience supporting federal criminal fraud, benefit fraud, healthcare fraud, unemployment insurance fraud, tax fraud, grants fraud, procurement fraud, or public corruption matters.

Work Environment and Compliance Expectations

• Must protect sensitive, confidential, investigative, legal, PII/PHI, and government information in accordance with contract and client requirements.
• Must complete required ethics, cybersecurity, privacy, records management, and other client-directed training within required timelines after onboarding.
• Must sign required nondisclosure, rules of behavior, and related federal contractor acknowledgements before accessing client systems or sensitive information.
• Travel may be required within the district or occasionally outside the district when directed and approved in advance by authorized government officials.

Diverse Staffing Services, Inc. dba DiverseGOV is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. DiverseGOV complies with applicable federal contractor affirmative action obligations, including OFCCP requirements, and provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in employment and application processes.