Manager, Sanctions Forensics and Investigations

Our Deloitte Regulatory, Risk & Forensic team helps client leaders translate multifaceted risk and an evolving regulatory environment into defensible actions that strengthen, protect, and transform their organization. Join our team and use advanced data, AI, and emerging technologies with industry insights to help clients bring clarity from complexity and accelerate their path to value creation.

Work You’ll Do

As a Project - Manager, Forensics and Investigations, on the project, you will:

• Project Delivery & Team Leadership
• Own end-to-end delivery of sanctions investigation workstreams, ensuring outputs meet client deadlines, quality standards, and evidentiary requirements.
• Manage and mentor a team of junior and senior staff, assigning work, reviewing analytical products, providing real-time coaching, and conducting formal performance evaluations.
• Set clear expectations for team output quality, provide direct and constructive feedback, and cultivate a high-performance culture grounded in accuracy and accountability.
• Anticipate project risks — including resourcing gaps, scope changes, or inter-agency delays — and develop and execute mitigation strategies proactively.
• Serve as the primary point of escalation for team members encountering complex or ambiguous analytical challenges. 
• Sanctions Investigations & Intelligence Analysis
• Lead and oversee the full lifecycle of sanctions investigations, from initial intelligence collection and open-source research through drafting designation packages and adjudicating the clearance process.
• Review and approve evidentiary memoranda, designation packages, and analytical assessments drafted by the team, ensuring logical rigor, factual accuracy, and adherence to applicable legal authorities.
• Perform and guide complex open-source intelligence (OSINT), classified intelligence analysis, commercial database research, and corporate and financial record review.
• Direct supply chain mapping, corporate structure analysis, and impact assessments across regions, industries, and economies.
• Identify patterns, anomalies, and connections across large and disparate data sets to inform designation recommendations and support client decision-making.
• Client & Stakeholder Engagement
• Serve as the senior day-to-day client contact, building trusted relationships with government clients and understanding their mission priorities and program objectives.
• Coordinate seamlessly with multiple federal government agencies and Intelligence Community partners, facilitating information sharing and alignment across stakeholders.
• Present findings, status updates, and recommendations clearly and confidently to senior government officials and inter-agency working groups.
• Translate ambiguous or evolving client requirements into clear analytical tasks and delivery plans for the team.
• Quality & Process Management
• Establish and enforce quality control processes for all team deliverables, including multi-stage review protocols for designation packages and analytical memoranda.
• Monitor project milestones, track team productivity, and report progress against commitments to Deloitte leadership and the client.
• Identify opportunities to improve analytical workflows, tool usage, and team efficiency over the life of the project.
• Ensure all team activities comply with applicable legal authorities, classification requirements, and government security protocols.

The successful candidate would possess these skills:

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships 
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor 
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to mentor and provide clear guidance to others

The Team

Deloitte’s Government & Public Services (GPS) practice – our people, ideas, technology and outcomes – is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our Forensic, Discovery, & Financial Crime offering provides services to support anti-money laundering, discovery, business disputes and investigations. Protect brands from financial crime and other corporate misconduct, as well as enable government organizations with tradecraft & technology to combat emerging and evolving threats.

The Project Talent Model is designed for professionals with specialized skills that align to a current client need. Team members focus on delivering services to clients, without additional expectations related to business development or promotion. Their employment is tied to their role on a project, and they are eligible for a benefits package that is competitive for project-focused professionals.

Qualifications

Required: 

• Bachelor’s degree
• Active Top Secret security clearance required
• 6+ years of experience in intelligence collection or analysis, investigations, or trade control and sanctions.
• 2+ years team/people leadership in support of intelligence, analysis, or research related functions.
• Ability to perform job responsibilities within a work model that requires co-location in person 5 days per week in Washington, DC
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Preferred: 

• Experience with Complex Investigations, Economic Sanctions, Management of Change, Management of Risk, Team Leadership
• Demonstrated experience coordinating with different federal government agencies, including the Intelligence Community. 
• Russian, Chinese/Mandarin, Korean, or other critical language skills. 
• Maritime, shipping, oil, gas, economic, narcotics trafficking, human rights, or regional/foreign policy knowledge or experience. 

For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in Washington DC, Deloitte is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range is specific to Washington DC and takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $113,000 to $188,400.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

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