Forensics Analyst Personal Statement

The path to choosing a career has been a long journey that has changed countless times over the years. I used to want to be a doctor, but quickly realized I could not provide the devotion necessary to be a great doctor because I knew in the future I would want a career that allowed me to have a family early on and the amount of schooling and investment it would take was too large for myself to commit to. My job as a manager at an electronics retailor has greatly influenced what virtues I have built and embraced that will apply to my future career as a forensics analyst with the government. As a forensics analyst possibly working for the FBI/CIA there are many traits that separate the good from the great but the critical traits found in great …show more content…
Now my position with Best Buy that really helped me practice all these traits daily was my position as a Back Office Leader. In this role I was auditing all cash and credit transactions to track and report variances with cashiers. In my position I was given a lot of power to make decisions for the business and I was the sole person auditing all cash variances so there was a lot of trust emplaced within me. My role helped me practice Integrity, Justice, and Prudence daily and these are the traits that will allow me to be a great forensics accountant. A forensics accountant’s job is to research and provide expert testimony in court on complex financial manners involving primarily fraud …show more content…
Justice can be defined as a theory by which we attempt to preserve each person’s rights equally. Each person’s view of justice can be different but in a moral sense, it is the theory that wrongs acts must be corrected in order to preserve everyone’s rights and liberties. A forensics accountant’s duty is to research and bring forward an analysis based on data to court to then be used to set the facts in the alleged crime. In order for a forensics accountant to be able to provide a testimony in court there needs to be strong sense of justice. You will find in a great accountant the urgency around justice and see that not only in their careers do they attempt to carry out justice but in their daily lives as well. These accountants are people that on a daily basis call out injustices in society and practice a just life as well. Having a forensics accountant without a sense of justice is like having a nurse without a sense of compassion; it simply results in someone doing the job without the motivation to do it for its sole