Investigative Auditor/Senior Investigative Auditor - VID 225184

Job Description

The New York Waterfront Commission (NYWC) is a law enforcement agency vested with licensing and regulatory authority. NYWC's mission is to investigate, deter, combat and remedy criminal activity and influence in the Port of New York, and to ensure fair hiring and employment practices so that the Port and region can grow and prosper. The agency conducts investigations into waterfront practices and works with federal, state, and local law enforcement partners in complex criminal investigations. It conducts disciplinary hearings to deny or revoke licensure for statutory violations, and to bar those who pose a danger to the public peace or safety or who lack the requisite good character and integrity from working/operating in the port. NYWC is seeking an experienced forensic auditor to serve as an Investigative Auditor/Senior Investigative Auditor. Auditors conduct payroll and compliance audits of regulated businesses to assess adherence to applicable regulatory and statutory standards. This position also plays a critical role in identifying criminality by utilizing advanced auditing techniques, forensic financial analysis, and investigative methods to detect complex financial crimes, fraud, money laundering, embezzlement, theft, organized financial crime enterprises, and other economic crimes affecting the security and integrity of waterfront operations.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Conduct compliance audits of regulated businesses to assess adherence to applicable regulatory and statutory standards.
• Conduct payroll audits of regulated businesses to ensure accurate payment of mandated assessments, identify deficiencies, and recommend administrative enforcement actions when appropriate.
• Participate in comprehensive background investigations of individuals and entities seeking licensure, evaluating financial records, associations, and regulatory compliance.
• Analyze complex financial transactions, banking records, tax records, payroll records, corporate filings, asset ownership structures, transaction data, digital evidence, and other financial intelligence to identify criminal conduct.
• Identify, document, and investigate suspicious financial activity, including structuring, payroll schemes, trade-based money laundering, and other methods used to conceal illicit proceeds.
• Identify assets, beneficial ownership, shell companies, related businesses, and financial relationships among investigative subjects and entities.
• Utilize financial analysis tools and databases to identify trends, patterns, suspicious activity and criminal schemes.
• Prepare financial timelines, transaction analyses, link analyses, and other demonstrative evidence.
• Prepare detailed investigative reports and audit findings, with recommendations and evidentiary summaries suitable for administrative proceedings and/or criminal prosecutions.
• Work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary investigative team with agency personnel on complex investigations and, when appropriate, support related multi-agency prosecutions.
• Support subpoenas and document production requests by identifying relevant financial and digital records.
• Participate in sworn interviews and testify as necessary as a fact witness and subject matter expert at hearings as required.
• Working closely with the Comptroller, track quarterly assessment payments, prepare quarterly summary reports and reconcile receipts.
• All other duties as assigned by the Comptroller and Executive Director & General Counsel.

Minimum Qualifications:
Candidates must have:
• Investigative Auditor: Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in forensic accounting. Relevant experience is defined as financial investigations and/or law enforcement experience with substantial financial investigative components. A master's degree from an accredited college in a relevant criminal justice adjacent field of study with a financial or investigative focus can be substituted for 2 years of experience.
• Senior Investigative Auditor: Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience in forensic auditing. Relevant experience is defined as financial investigations and/or law enforcement experience with substantial financial investigative components. A master's degree from an accredited college in a relevant criminal justice adjacent field of study with a financial or investigative focus can be substituted for 2 years of experience.
• Proficiency with digital forensic tools, data analytics and financial investigation software.
Educational Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or economics. Certified Public Account (CPA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) or Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) preferred.
Additional Qualifications:
• Strong knowledge of Anti-Money Laundering regulations/financial crime statutes, financial systems, Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), banking operations, and money movement.
• Experience conducting complex investigations involving regulatory violations, financial crimes, fraud, money laundering, embezzlement, cyber-enabled financial crimes, or complex business crimes.
• Experience in business organizational and managerial structures and practices, and their financial documentation practices, as well as various sophisticated finance and accounting systems, methods, and techniques.
• Experience in conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses to discern and unravel complex interrelationships and to recognize concealed or obscure associations.
• Ability to translate complex and interrelated information into articulate presentations, prepare substantive analytical reports, interact effectively as a member of an investigative team, elicit information, and develop cooperative relationships.
• Ability to work at a detailed level on complex investigative and strategic matters, using unique skills to further the agency's mission to detect, deter, and disrupt criminality.
• Adaptability, intellectual curiosity, and capability to perform at an optimum level in time sensitive environments while maintaining accuracy and quality of work.
• Dedication to mission-focused, purpose-driven work.
Conditions of Employment:
Retention is contingent upon the completion and satisfactory adjudication of a background investigation.

Requirements

Candidates must have:
• Investigative Auditor: Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in forensic accounting. Relevant experience is defined as financial investigations and/or law enforcement experience with substantial financial investigative components. A master's degree from an accredited college in a relevant criminal justice adjacent field of study with a financial or investigative focus can be substituted for 2 years of experience.
• Senior Investigative Auditor: Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience in forensic auditing. Relevant experience is defined as financial investigations and/or law enforcement experience with substantial financial investigative components. A master's degree from an accredited college in a relevant criminal justice adjacent field of study with a financial or investigative focus can be substituted for 2 years of experience.
• Proficiency with digital forensic tools, data analytics and financial investigation software.
Educational Requirements:
• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or economics. Certified Public Account (CPA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Certified in Financial Forensics (CFF), Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) or Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) preferred.
Additional Qualifications:
• Strong knowledge of Anti-Money Laundering regulations/financial crime statutes, financial systems, Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), banking operations, and money movement.
• Experience conducting complex investigations involving regulatory violations, financial crimes, fraud, money laundering, embezzlement, cyber-enabled financial crimes, or complex business crimes.
• Experience in business organizational and managerial structures and practices, and their financial documentation practices, as well as various sophisticated finance and accounting systems, methods, and techniques.
• Experience in conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses to discern and unravel complex interrelationships and to recognize concealed or obscure associations.
• Ability to translate complex and interrelated information into articulate presentations, prepare substantive analytical reports, interact effectively as a member of an investigative team, elicit information, and develop cooperative relationships.
• Ability to work at a detailed level on complex investigative and strategic matters, using unique skills to further the agency's mission to detect, deter, and disrupt criminality.
• Adaptability, intellectual curiosity, and capability to perform at an optimum level in time sensitive environments while maintaining accuracy and quality of work.
• Dedication to mission-focused, purpose-driven work.
Conditions of Employment:
Retention is contingent upon the completion and satisfactory adjudication of a background investigation.