Senior Litigation Associate

Job Title: Senior Litigation Associate, Forensic Accounting

Department: Family Litigation

Location: Century City

Description of role: Gursey | Schneider seeks a dynamic and detail-oriented professional to contribute to the litigation department. This position focuses on high-net-worth clients and business owners in all financial aspects of the marital dissolution process and allows for professional growth.

Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or other business-related fields
• CPA Designation

Minimum Qualifications:

• Licensed California Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with at least two to three years of recent audit, accounting, or tax experience at a top-100 public accounting firm.
• Must possess exceptional abilities in both written and oral communication.
• Excellent computer skills required in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities:

• Tracing separate property assets.
• Analyzing gross cash flow available for child and spousal support and marital standard of living.
• Conducting business valuations
• Apportioning real estate and equity compensation (such as stock options, restricted stock units, carried interest, etc.)
• Prepare different types of declarations for court proceedings.
• Accounting for transactions occurring post-separation and analyzing their impact on the community estate.
• Prepare deposition questions for financial and party witnesses and assist counsel while attending the deposition.
• Assist partners with preparing for settlement conferences.
• Senior associates may have the opportunity to travel to attend and participate in settlement conferences, assisting clients with resolving their dissolution.
• Prepare work papers and exhibits for Court hearings.
• Senior associates may have the opportunity to travel to attend Court with the partner on the matter to gain experience toward becoming a testifying expert witness.