Litigation Associate

Job Title: Litigation Associate, Forensic Accounting & Data Tracing

Department: Litigation, Forensic Accounting 

Location: Century City, CA

Description of role: Gursey | Schneider is looking for a dynamic and detail-oriented professional to contribute to the litigation department. G|S's litigation department position focuses on high-net-worth clients and business owners in all financial aspects of the marital dissolution process. This unique role will enable the associate to work with G|S' established tracing team and utilize G|S' proprietary tracing and marital lifestyle software. The tracing team collates, organizes, categorizes, analyzes, and characterizes high volumes of data from source documents such as bank, brokerage, and credit card accounts. This position allows for professional growth and career development.

Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree (majors in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or related discipline preferred)

Minimum Qualifications:

• Meticulous attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to organize large volumes of detailed informationBasic bookkeeping skills and/or experience using accounting, bookkeeping, or finance software (e.g., Quicken, QuickBooks, AgiLink/Datafaction, Sage) to categorize and reconcile transactions
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel; preferred candidates can demonstrate competency with logic, information, lookup-and-reference functions, and Excel tables
• Basic competency in Microsoft Word and OutlookMust live within commuting distance of the Century City office

Preferred experience/skills:

• Basic programming experience
• Data-analytics abilities, including data mining, data management, statistical analysis, and presentation

Responsibilities:

• Extract and enter transactional data to trace separate-property assets in marital-dissolution engagements
• Reformat transactional data and import it into G|S’s proprietary programs
• Generate reports from G|S’s proprietary programs (e.g., Ceres Tracing, Lifestyler)
• Reconcile data to source documentsInventory source documents and identify any deficiencies needed to complete the work
• Customize reports in Excel or Word for client-specific scenarios
• Prepare and reference work-paper files for litigation managers and partners to use in marital-dissolution proceedings (court hearings, settlement conferences, depositions, etc.)

Benefits: G|S offers market-leading benefits, including medical/dental/vision insurance, paid parental leave, generous PTO, profit sharing plan, 401(k) match, and overtime pay. We also offer fun intangible perks such as our annual ski/camping trip, black-tie holiday party, quarterly departmental mixers (travel stipend included), and paid continuing education.