IT Risk Senior Associate — Insurance Focus & Impact

Chris Baily; New York (NY); On-site; USD 101,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton in New York is seeking an IT Risk Senior Associate (Insurance) to help clients understand and address IT risks, with emphasis on internal controls and risk management across SOX and related compliance. You will participate in engagements from planning through reporting, supporting insurance operations and data flows.

The role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams, strong analytical skills, and the ability to manage multiple engagements within a growing Risk,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Minimum 2 years of related work experience with a professional services firm, or part of an internal audit function.
• Experience with insurance organizations preferred.
• CISA, CISSP, CISM, CPA license/certification preferred.
• Understanding of IT risk management and cybersecurity risk management standards (COBIT, NIST CSF).
• Experience with IT risk management and IT controls assessment (SOX, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Actively participate in client engagements from start to completion, focusing on IT internal audit, internal control assessments, IT risk management program assessments, and tests of IT control design and operating effectiveness for SOX and other compliance requirements.
• Understand clients’ industry, objectives, strategy, operations, processes, IT systems, and controls, including insurance-specific data flows.
• Execute IT control design and operating effectiveness test procedures based on engagement scope and risk factors.
• Support assessments of technology supporting insurance operations (policy administration, underwriting, claims, billing, reinsurance, actuarial, financial reporting).
• Bring an innovative and analytical mindset to solve business issues and enable efficient project execution.
• Collaborate with the project team and client to deliver services per project leadership and client expectations.
• Work with colleagues across Advisory Business Lines and other Grant Thornton service lines.
• Meet or exceed defined performance metrics.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

IT risk management

Internal auditing

SOX compliance

Client service

Communication

Project management

Education

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

Tools

ACL

QlikView

QlikSense

Tableau

Spotfire

SAP

Oracle

Windows

Job description

Grant Thornton in New York is seeking an IT Risk Senior Associate (Insurance) to help clients understand and address IT risks, with emphasis on internal controls and risk management across SOX and related compliance. You will participate in engagements from planning through reporting, supporting insurance operations and data flows.

The role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams, strong analytical skills, and the ability to manage multiple engagements within a growing Risk,