IT Risk Senior Associate — Hybrid, SOX & IT Controls

Grant Thornton (US); New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 101,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton (US) is seeking an IT Risk Senior Associate to help clients understand and address IT risk and internal control requirements. You will participate in co-sourced and outsourced IT internal audit and control assessments, helping to design and test IT controls and risk management programs.

You will work with cross-disciplinary teams, travel as needed, and contribute to delivering high-quality risk and compliance services for clients in a dynamic professional services environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, MIS, or a related field is required.
• Minimum 2 years of related work experience with a professional services firm, or part of an internal audit function.
• CPA license/certification or security certifications (CISA, CISSP, CISM) preferred.
• Understanding of IT risk management and cybersecurity risk management standards (COBIT, NIST CSF, etc.).
• Experience assessing IT risk management and IT controls (ITGCs, application controls) for Internal Audit or SOX.
• Experience assessing ERP configurations and controls (SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards) a plus.
• Experience with GRC and IAM solutions, and diverse OS/DB/infra components a plus.
• Proficiency with analytics tools (ACL/IDEA, QlikView/Lenses, Tableau/Spotfire).

Responsibilities

• Actively participate in client engagements from start to finish on IT risk, internal control and SOX-related engagements.
• Understand client industry, objectives, processes, IT systems and controls to tailor assessments.
• Execute IT control design and operating effectiveness tests per scope and risk factors.
• Contribute innovative analysis to improve project execution and client delivery.
• Collaborate with cross-service-line teams and meet defined performance metrics.
• Travel as needed to client sites.

Skills

Client service

Communication

Analytical

Organizational

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, MIS, or related field

Tools

ACL

IDEA

QlikView

QlikSense

Tableau

Spotfire

SAP

Oracle

PeopleSoft

JD Edwards

OS/400

Windows

UNIX

SQL

Job description

Grant Thornton (US) is seeking an IT Risk Senior Associate to help clients understand and address IT risk and internal control requirements. You will participate in co-sourced and outsourced IT internal audit and control assessments, helping to design and test IT controls and risk management programs.

You will work with cross-disciplinary teams, travel as needed, and contribute to delivering high-quality risk and compliance services for clients in a dynamic professional services environment.