Use this sample and step by step explanation to craft a meaningful employee performance feedback review for a forensic accounting manager. Find the right words with quality phrases.

A Forensic Accounting Manager reviews financial documents to identify any inaccuracies while analyzing financial data and tracing all the records to avoid any discrepancies and forecast preventable financial frauds. To be successful in this role, you must combine investigative skills with accounting procedures so that you can easily organize economic evidence into small detailed reports.

More responsibilities include performing regular financial record audits to ensure they comply wit the law, reviewing financial documents to identify inaccuracies, investigating complex business cases to minimize any risks, reporting on revenue losses and damages from contract breaches, forecasting and preventing financial frauds, ensuring all the accounting procedures follow legislation.

Employee Performance Review Sample

Employee's Name: Title:
Review Period: __/__/__ to __/__/__ Employee SSN:
Work Location: Supervisor's Name:

Instructions

  1. Rating: Rate the employee against the core skills based on how well he/she demonstrates each skill. Give scores 1, 2, or 3 for each rating depending on the employee's performance.
  2. Comments: Use this area to give examples of employee's performance phrases. The phrases should describe how well an employee has performed on previously set goals based on the given core skill.
  3. Summary: Use this section to give a summary of the employee's strengths and areas for improvement or development. Recommend a step increase for an employee who has met the expectations and performance improvement plans for one who doesn't meet expectations.
  4. Human Resources Review: Human resources manager must examine and indicate whether he/she concurs with the evaluation and comments. If the manager agrees, then he/she must sign the evaluation form. If he/she doesn't concur, then he/she must provide reasons explaining why this is so.
  5. Signatures: Sign the evaluation form and give it to the employee to go through and answer the Self Evaluation Questions. Ask him/her to sign and date the evaluation form before giving it back to the human resources for filing.

Rating Meaning

The employee fails to perform the most important aspects of the job satisfactorily. Requires close guidance to carry out routine jobs. He/she needs significant improvement in all areas. Meetings should be held between the employee and the supervisor to discuss performance deficiencies.

1

Employee routinely meets and exceeds expectations in all areas of responsibility. Produces high-quality work that at times exceeds expectations. Consistently meets the most critical annual goals. Occasionally produces timely and accurate results.

2

The employee consistently and significantly exceeds the communicated expectations by producing exceptionally high-quality work. He/she demonstrates exceptional knowledge of his/her duties and is highly recognized by others as an authority in his/her area of work.

3

Supervisor's Feedback

Skill

Comments

Rating

PRESENTATION SKILLS: Presentation Skills are useful in getting your message or opinion out there in many aspects of life and work, though they are mostly used in businesses, sales, teaching, lecturing, and training.

Does not make good and consistent eye contact with the audience.

Gives long presentations and does little to get the attention of the audience.

1

MOTIVATING OTHERS: Motivating is using persuasion, incentives and mental or physical stimulants to influence the way people think or behave individually or in groups.

Asks one's boss for more responsibilities in order to broaden one's skill set and keep one stimulated and motivated to work

Sets career goals that match with those of the company in order to stay motivated during the workweek

2

MANAGEMENT SKILLS: Management Skills are also known as leadership skills and involve planning, decision making, delegation, time management and time management to ensure optimum organization in focus and the technical of how and why of accomplishing tasks.

Very poor at managing a high number of people or a high-performance team

Displays unfairness in treating the team caring only for a few favorites

1

PERSONAL GROWTH: Personal Growth is the improvement of one's awareness, identity, developing talents and potential to facilitate the growth of oneself and the position they handle at the workplace.

Sets unchallenging personal goals that in most cases end up not met

Works on the same project for an extended period and ends up failing to meet the objectives

1

PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS: Personal Relationships is the relationship between individuals who have or have had a continuing relationship of any nature either professional or informal.

Speaks positively to own bosses and provides quality feedback about the people one works with

Introduces oneself to colleagues at social work events such as retreats, holiday parties, and conferences in order to know them better

2

PROJECT AND GOAL FOCUS: Project and Goal Focus is setting your mind and heart on things that matter and add value to your life against those things that add no value at all or of little value.

Creates a vision board to help one visualize end goals more clearly and get inspired to take consistent action

Interacts with people with similar goals in order to get new ideas on how to effectively achieve own goals

2

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: Financial Management is the skill of learning how to handle accounting, finance, and organizational management through providing daily data on the operations that take place every day.

Does not take the time to familiarize oneself with different types of credit thus leaves decision-making to the lender

Does not try to negotiate for better deals when contracting with suppliers or buying products from vendors

1

TIME MANAGEMENT: Time Management is the capacity for an individual to assign specific time slots to activities as per their importance and urgency to make the best possible use of time.

Delivers low-quality work to beat the clock and is poor in time-management

Rarely keeps a record of upcoming deadlines and major events

1

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: Knowledge Management is the ability to manage knowledge and information that is presented to the company from different sources without overlooking any of them.

Constantly fails to seek for further information and is poor at analyzing knowledge from multiple sources

Constantly fails to recognize the importance of good communication when sharing knowledge

1

MECHANICAL SKILLS: Mechanical Skills are the abilities to solve problems that arise in the workplace, although it may vary from one company to another.

Does not understand how to read machine prints and is unable to identify most symbols on drawings and blueprints

Demonstrates little willingness to learn how to read machine prints and diagrams

1

Self Evaluation

Self Evaluation Question

Employee Comments

PRESENTATION SKILLS:

How do you normally conclude your presentations and how can you rate it?

What do you like or dislike most about giving presentations?

[employee comments]
MOTIVATING OTHERS:

What types of tasks or projects do you enjoy doing the most? Why?

What situation(s) make(s) you feel demotivated at work? Is there anything you can do to change this/these?

[employee comments]
MANAGEMENT SKILLS:

How do employees and supervisors respond to your leadership skills?

What are the most important values you demonstrate as a leader?

[employee comments]
PERSONAL GROWTH:

Do you consider the requirements carefully before handling any task?

Are you available to attend training and coaching workshops and do you benefit from them?

[employee comments]
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS:

In your opinion, what are the key ingredients in building and maintaining a successful business relationship? How have these worked for you?

How do you make sure to keep the existing relationships with other employees and customers strong every single day?

[employee comments]
PROJECT AND GOAL FOCUS:

Where do you see yourself in the next five years? What are you going to do to achieve this?

How do you differentiate goals that are urgent from those that are important? Give an example

[employee comments]
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT:

Which is one of the best deals you have ever negotiated with a vendor? How did the company benefit from this?

Describe a time when your company was successful in reducing its expenses. What are some of the strategies you used and how did the company benefit from this?

[employee comments]
TIME MANAGEMENT:

Are you able to distinguish between unimportant and important tasks when working on a project?

Is there a time you had to seek assistance from another person to solve a problem quickly?

[employee comments]
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT:

What are you doing to improve your understanding on when to seek for new knowledge?

What efforts are you making to improve your skills in analyzing knowledge from different sources?

[employee comments]
MECHANICAL SKILLS:

How often do you train yourself to improve your ability to read a wide range machine prints and diagrams?

What efforts are you making to learn more about safety requirements and legal guidelines when developing designs?

[employee comments]

Summary

Sections 1-4: To be completed by the supervisor

Section 5: To be completed by the employee

1. Exceeds Job Related Expectations

2. Areas to improve

3. Goals completed since last performance feedback

4. Goals for next period

5. Employee comments

Signatures

I acknowledge that I discussed this performance feedback with my supervisor. My signature does not mean that I agree or disagree with this appraisal.
Employee: Date:
Supervisor: Date:
Human Resources: Date:

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