Associate, Global Investigations & Dispute Resolution

Associate, Global Investigations & Dispute Resolution

Company Overview

Hilco Global, a subsidiary of ORIX Corporation USA, is a diversified financial services company that delivers integrated professional services and capital solutions that help clients maximize value and drive performance across the retail, commercial and industrial, real estate, manufacturing, brand and intellectual property sectors, and more. Hilco Global provides a range of customized solutions to healthy, stressed, and distressed companies to resolve complex situations and enhance long-term enterprise value. Hilco Global works to deliver the best possible result by aligning interests with clients and providing strategic advice and, in many instances, the capital required to complete the deal. Hilco Global is based in Northbrook, Illinois and has more than 850 professionals operating on four continents. Visit www.hilcoglobal.com.

What differentiates Hilco is the strength and breadth of its platform. The firm is trusted in high-stakes, complex, and often time-sensitive situations where financial, operational, strategic, and legal issues intersect. Hilco brings together deep experience, commercial judgment, and execution capability across the business lifecycle — from healthy companies seeking growth or strategic alternatives to stressed and distressed situations requiring decisive action.

Built on that foundation, Hilco Global is expanding its Global Investigations & Dispute Resolution practice. This growing practice advises clients on matters involving fraud and misconduct investigations, forensic accounting and financial analysis, post-acquisition and other commercial disputes, bribery and corruption matters, asset tracing, investigative due diligence, litigation support, regulatory response, and other sensitive situations requiring rigorous analysis, sound judgment, and clear communication.

This is not a standalone niche practice being built in isolation. It is being developed within a powerful platform that already has deep client relationships, strong market credibility, and meaningful adjacency to restructuring, valuation, capital solutions, and other advisory capabilities. For the right professionals, that creates a rare opportunity: the chance to build within an established platform that already matters in the market.

Why Hilco Global

There are many firms that offer investigations and disputes work. Very few offer the combination of platform strength, market relevance, entrepreneurial upside, and cross-disciplinary opportunity that Hilco does.

Joining Hilco’s Global Investigations & Dispute Resolution practice means joining at a time of strong momentum. The practice is being actively built and expanded, with the benefit of Hilco’s broader brand, relationships, and capabilities across capital solutions, restructuring, valuation, advisory, and special situations.

For professionals who are ambitious, commercial, and excited by the idea of helping shape a market-facing practice, Hilco offers a differentiated proposition:

• A powerful platform behind the practice, with meaningful credibility and access across lenders, investors, boards, law firms, and corporate clients
• A true build opportunity — the chance to help shape a leading global investigations and disputes offering, not simply join a mature team with limited room to influence direction
• Complex, high-value matters at the intersection of accounting, finance, disputes, investigations, transactions, restructurings, and distressed situations
• Cross-platform opportunity, with natural adjacency to Hilco’s capital solutions, restructuring, valuation, and advisory capabilities
• Meaningful responsibility and career upside for professionals who combine technical excellence, sound judgment, and initiative

At Hilco, professionals are not joining a static organization. They are joining a platform with real market strength and the ambition to build a premier practice.

Position Overview

As an Associate in Hilco Global Investigations & Dispute Resolution practice, you will perform substantive investigative, accounting, financial, and industry analysis in support of client engagements. You will work on matters involving fraud and misconduct, financial reporting issues, commercial disputes, post-acquisition matters, investigative due diligence, asset tracing, litigation support, and other sensitive assignments.

Associates are expected to take ownership of core workstreams, contribute meaningfully to client deliverables, and build the technical and professional judgment required to operate in complex matters.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct investigative, accounting, financial, and industry research in support of active matters
• Analyze financial statements, accounting records, transactional data, and other business records
• Review public records, litigation materials, regulatory filings, sanctions data, corporate records, media, and other open-source information
• Support document-intensive investigations, data-intensive analyses, and e-discovery reviews as needed
• Prepare workpapers documenting methodologies, assumptions, findings, and sources
• Draft portions of client-facing reports, memoranda, presentations, schedules, and chronologies
• Identify adverse issues, inconsistencies, anomalies, and relevant fact patterns across multiple sources of information
• Deliver written and verbal summaries of findings to managers and senior leadership
• Assist in mentoring junior professionals and contribute to internal practice development initiatives

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, economics, business, or a related discipline required; candidates with master’s degrees (e.g., MAcc, MBA, MSF, or similar) are strongly encouraged and will be prioritized
• Approximately 2–4 years of relevant experience in forensic accounting, investigations, disputes, audit, compliance, valuation, restructuring advisory, or related consulting services
• Strong analytical, research, writing, and financial statement analysis skills
• Experience with tools such as LexisNexis, Westlaw, Factiva, Capital IQ, Sayari, Dow Jones, Accurint, Relativity, or similar resources is preferred
• Ability to manage multiple assignments and priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• CPA, CFE, CAMS, CFA, CFF, ABV, or progress toward such credentials is a plus
• Foreign language capabilities are beneficial but not required
• Willingness to travel based on client needs

Candidates are expected to be onsite at Hilco Global offices and work primarily in person with their teams (at least for the first 3-6 months to build connections/relationships). Travel may be required depending on client needs and engagement demands.

Work Arrangement

Hilco Global believes that complex advisory work benefits from collaboration, mentorship, and real-time problem solving. As such, professionals in the Global Investigations & Dispute Resolution practice are expected to work primarily from the office, collaborating closely with their teams and colleagues across Hilco’s broader platform.

While flexibility may be available when business needs permit, the practice operates as an office-based team environment to support high-quality client service, professional development, and team cohesion.

Annual base salary gross: $110,000-135,000. The base salary range represents the estimated low and high end of Hilco’s salary for this position based on geography. Actual base salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and proficiency for the role. The base pay is one component of Hilco’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards and benefits include cash bonuses, long term incentives, health insurance, accident and life insurance, and retirement benefits.  

Hilco Global is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered on merits and without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, genetic information, marital status, gender, veteran, or disability status.

Hilco Global strives to comply with all applicable local/state regulations regarding displaying salary ranges. Any offered salary is determined based on relevant factors such as applicant's skills, job responsibilities, prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications and market considerations. In addition, Hilco Global is proud to offer a comprehensive, competitive benefits package, with options designed to help you make the best decisions for yourself, your family, and your lifestyle. Available benefits are based on eligibility. Our Total Rewards package includes a variety of medical and dental plans, vision coverage, disability and life insurance, 401(k) plans, and a robust suite of personal well-being benefits to support your mental health. https://hilcoglobal.com/careers-about/