IT Risk Senior Associate (SOX & Internal Audit) - Insurance

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

Job summary

Grant Thornton (US) is seeking an IT Risk Senior Associate (Insurance) to help clients understand and address IT risk across risk management, internal controls, and internal audit engagements. You will design and test IT controls and assist in reporting outcomes for insurers and financial services clients.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, apply cybersecurity standards, and contribute to risk assessment for IT systems and data flows within insurance operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, information technology, MIS, or related field.
• Minimum 2 years of related work experience with a professional services firm or internal audit.
• Insurance industry experience preferred (property/casualty).
• CISA, CISSP, CISM, CPA preferred.
• Understanding IT risk management and cybersecurity standards (COBIT, NIST CSF).

Responsibilities

• Participate in client engagements from start to finish, performing IT internal audit and control work.
• Assess IT risk management programs and design/operating effectiveness of IT controls.
• Test SOX and other compliance requirements and help design IT controls.
• Understand client industry, processes, and IT data flows, including insurance tech.
• Collaborate across Grant Thornton service lines and meet performance metrics.

Skills

Client service

Communication

Analytical skills

Project management

Team collaboration

Travel flexibility

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting/Finance/IT

Tools

ACL

IDEA

QlikSense

Tableau

Spotfire

SAP

Oracle

PeopleSoft

JD Edwards

Job description

Job Description

As an IT Risk Senior Associate (Insurance), you will get the opportunity to grow and contribute to our clients' business needs by helping them understand their business risks and assist in addressing risk in both proactive and responsive contexts for the Risk, Compliance & Controls Practice – all with the resources, environment, and support to help you excel. You’ll collaborate with teams to execute and report on risk management, internal control and internal audit engagements that develop, assess, or improve the design and operating effectiveness of IT risk management and internal control activities.

From day one, you’ll be empowered by the greater Risk team to help clients make the moves that will help them achieve their vision and help you achieve more, confidently for clients, including insurers and other financial services organizations.

Your day-to-day may include

• Actively participate in client engagements from start to completion, with a focus on executing and reporting on assigned project tasks that include co-sourced and outsourced IT internal audit, IT internal control assessments, IT risk management program assessments, tests of IT control design and operating effectiveness for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and other compliance requirements, and helping clients design and implement IT controls
• Obtain an understanding of clients’ industry, objectives, strategy, operations, processes, IT systems, and controls, including insurance-specific technology and data flows where applicable
• Execute IT control design and operating effectiveness test procedures based on engagement scope, and client environment risk factors
• Support assessments of technology supporting insurance operations, such as policy administration, underwriting, claims, billing, reinsurance, actuarial, and financial reporting processes.
• Bring an innovative and analytical mindset to help our clients solve business issues and enable more efficient project execution
• Work with the project team and client to deliver services in accordance with project leadership and client expectations
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across Advisory Business Lines (ABLs) and with other Grant Thornton Service Lines (e.g., Audit Services and Tax Services)
• Meet or exceed defined performance metrics
• Other duties as assigned

You have the following technical skills and 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
• Experience with insurance organizations, particularly property and casualty carriers or related market participants, is preferred.
• CISA, CISSP, CISM, CPA license/certification preferred
• Understanding of IT risk management and cybersecurity risk management standards (COBIT, NIST CSF, etc.)
• Experience in assessing the design and operating effectiveness of IT risk management and IT controls (IT general controls, application controls, etc.) for Internal Audit, SOX compliance, or other risk management activities
• Experience assessing configuration and controls of ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, JD Edwards) a plus
• Experience assessing configuration and controls of SAP ECC, S/4 HANA, etc. (BASIS and security administration, process controls, etc.) a plus
• Strong understanding of IT general controls, and current focus areas of external financial statement auditors
• Experience assessing GRC and Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions a plus
• Experience assessing at least one (preferably multiple) operating system (OS/400, Windows, UNIX, etc.), database system (Oracle, SQL, etc.), and IT infrastructure / network component (domain controllers, firewalls, routers, intrusion prevention / detection solutions, etc.)
• Experience with ACL, IDEA, QlikView, QlikSense, Tableau, Spotfire, or other analytics and visualization solutions
• Ability to execute multiple engagements and completing priorities in a rapidly growing team environment
• Exceptional client service, communication, analytical, organizational and project management skills
• Strong computer skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Visio and Office Suite applications
• Can travel as needed
• The base salary range for this position is between $101,200 and $129,030. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton’s discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job -related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity. At Grant Thornton, compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.