Manager, Digital Forensics & Cyber Investigations

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


Hilco Global is a diversified financial services, advisory, and capital solutions company with a long-standing reputation for helping clients maximize value, solve complex problems, and navigate critical business moments. Across its platform, Hilco provides a broad range of services and solutions spanning valuation, restructuring, advisory, monetization, transactions, and capital solutions for corporations, lenders, investors, private equity sponsors, boards, and legal counsel.

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, digital forensics and cyber-enabled investigations, e-discovery, 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, digital forensics, cyber investigations, and e-discovery 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 digital evidence, accounting, finance, investigations, disputes, 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 a Manager in Hilco Global Investigations & Dispute Resolution practice, you will lead day-to-day execution of digital forensics and cyber-enabled investigations workstreams. The role is focused on digital evidence analysis, cyber-enabled misconduct, user-activity reconstruction, data misuse, insider-risk issues, and other technology-enabled fact patterns, rather than traditional e-discovery review management.

You will help clients and counsel identify, preserve, collect, analyze, and explain digital evidence in matters involving fraud, employee misconduct, data theft or misuse, unauthorized access, off-channel communications, business email compromise, accounting and financial issues, disputes, regulatory response, and other sensitive investigations.

Managers are expected to combine strong technical capability with project management, communication, and team leadership. This role is particularly attractive for professionals who want to help build a growing digital evidence and cyber investigations capability inside a broader investigations and disputes platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day execution of digital forensics and cyber investigations workstreams, including evidence preservation, forensic collection, artifact analysis, timeline reconstruction, and reporting

• Conduct or oversee forensic imaging, targeted collections, cloud and collaboration-platform collections, mobile-device collections, mailbox collections, log preservation, and other evidence acquisition activities where appropriate

• Analyze artifacts from laptops, desktops, servers, mobile devices, email, cloud repositories, collaboration platforms, file shares, logs, and other sources of digital evidence

• Support investigations involving unauthorized access, data misuse or exfiltration, file deletion or movement, USB activity, off-channel communications, insider risk, business email compromise, and technology-enabled misconduct

• Develop clear timelines and user-activity reconstructions that connect system artifacts, communications, documents, access logs, metadata, and business records

• Maintain chain-of-custody documentation, defensible procedures, workpapers, and quality-control protocols

• Coordinate with forensic accounting, investigative, e-discovery, analytics, legal, IT, HR, compliance, and security teams to connect technical findings to broader factual and financial issues

• Prepare and review client-facing reports, memoranda, presentations, timelines, and exhibits explaining digital evidence in clear, non-technical language

• Supervise, coach, and develop Analysts, Associates, and other team members through active review and feedback

• Support proposals, pitch materials, recruiting, training, tool evaluation, and other internal practice-building initiatives

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, cybersecurity, digital forensics, accounting, finance, business, or a related discipline required; candidates with master's degrees or other advanced technical degrees are strongly encouraged and will be prioritized

• Approximately 4-7 years of relevant experience in digital forensics, cyber investigations, forensic technology, incident investigation, insider-risk investigations, or related professional services

• Hands-on experience with forensic acquisition, evidence preservation, chain of custody, artifact analysis, timeline development, and defensible technical workpapers

• Experience with tools such as EnCase, FTK, Cellebrite, Magnet AXIOM, X-Ways, Nuix, Relativity, Microsoft Purview, Google Vault, CrowdStrike, Splunk, or similar platforms is preferred

• Familiarity with Windows, macOS, mobile, cloud, email, collaboration, and enterprise logging environments

• Strong report-writing, presentation, and client communication skills, including the ability to explain technical issues to counsel and business stakeholders

• Experience supervising junior professionals and managing workstreams, deadlines, and quality-control processes

• Professional credentials such as EnCE, GCFE, GCFA, GASF, CCE, CFCE, CISA, CISSP, RCA, CEDS, or similar certifications are advantageous

• Willingness to travel based on client and business needs

Annual base salary gross: $135,000 - $175,000. 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.