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About the Role
As an IT Risk Senior Associate, you will contribute to clients' business needs by helping them understand and address business risks. You will collaborate with teams to execute and report on risk management, internal control, and internal audit engagements, focusing on the design and effectiveness of IT risk management and internal control activities.
Responsibilities
- Actively participate in client engagements from start to completion, executing and reporting on assigned project tasks including IT internal audit, IT internal control assessments, IT risk management program assessments, and tests of IT control design and operating effectiveness for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and other compliance requirements.
- Help clients design and implement IT controls.
- Obtain an understanding of clients’ industry, objectives, strategy, operations, processes, IT systems, and controls.
- Execute IT control design and operating effectiveness test procedures based on engagement scope and client environment risk factors.
- Bring an innovative and analytical mindset to help 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.
- Meet or exceed defined performance metrics.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- 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.
- 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.
- Ability to travel as needed.
Skills
- 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 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.
Experience Level
- Senior Associate
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, MIS, or a related field
Salary/Compensations
- $101,200 to $129,030
About the Company
- At Grant Thornton, we believe in making business more personal and building trust into every result – for our clients and you.
- We offer a career path with more: more opportunity, more flexibility, and more support.
- In the U.S., Grant Thornton delivers professional services through two specialized entities: Grant Thornton LLP (audit and assurance services) and Grant Thornton Advisors LLC (tax and advisory services).
- In 2025, Grant Thornton formed a multinational, multidisciplinary platform with Grant Thornton Ireland, offering a premier Trans-Atlantic advisory and tax practice, and independent American and Irish audit practices.
- The platform has $2.7 billion in revenues and more than 50 offices spanning the U.S., Ireland and other territories.
- Grant Thornton is part of the Grant Thornton International Limited network, which provides access to its member firms in more than 150 global markets.