Lisa James is a senior forensic accounting, fraud investigation, financial crime, and data risk governance professional with more than 20 years of experience analyzing complex financial transactions, evaluating internal controls, identifying fraud indicators, and translating financial and operational data into clear, defensible findings.
Ms. James specializes in forensic accounting, fraud investigations, transaction analysis, funds tracing, payment integrity, internal controls, financial data analytics, and fraud risk management. Her work includes identifying improper payments, unsupported transactions, suspicious cash flows, fraudulent cost reallocations, vendor integrity concerns, control deficiencies, and potential misuse or diversion of funds.
Her experience includes engagements supporting the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, Environmental Protection Agency, Defense Logistics Agency, and Navy Federal Credit Union across forensic accounting, fraud risk, financial controls, and data governance matters.
Ms. James also brings specialized expertise in Human Resources Data Risk Governance (HRDRG), data integrity, data privacy and protection, data quality, data classification, data lineage, identity and access governance, control testing, incident investigation, and root cause analysis. Her emerging technology focus includes AI governance and the intersection of AI with data integrity, privacy, access controls, responsible data use, and organizational risk.
Her multidisciplinary experience enables her to evaluate complex financial, transactional, control, and data issues, identify patterns and anomalies, assess underlying risk and control failures, and communicate findings in a clear, objective, and analytically supported manner.
SER Associate Member
Curriculum Vitae