IT Risk Senior Manager

As an IT Risk Senior Manager, 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.  

Your day-to-day may include: 

• Review business processes across multiple risk domains to provide management with an individual assessment of business risk, internal control, and the overall effectiveness and efficiency of the process as well – across the three lines of defense (including internal audit) 
• Work closely with clients and staff to develop client and project risk assessments, implement opportunities, and recommendations regarding business and IT process optimization, profit improvement, cost reduction, fraud prevention, internal control, and compliance 
• Lead and support business development activities, such as proposals, capture, account teams, whitepapers, conferences, and/or other thought leadership material 
• Understand and manage firm risk on audits and proposal 
• Work with Grant Thornton partners and other team members to promptly identify and resolve client concerns 
• Communicate externally with clients and internally with all levels of the organization to accomplish objectives  
• Perform engagement management responsibilities, including performance reviews, task delegation, project scheduling, project financials, quality review and client management 
• Think strategically about practice enhancements and be able to implement and manage change 
• Use established network of business relationships within industry groups to generate new sales opportunities
• Coach, mentor, develop team members to foster team members’ professional growth and develop top performers 
• Meet or exceed sales targets for new and follow-on work and meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization) 
• Interview campus and/or experienced candidates 
• 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 10 years of related work experience providing risk and internal control audit and advisory services  
• Certification required, CIA,CISA, CPA license/certification preferred 
• Experience establishing and operating Sarbanes-Oxley compliance programs and internal audit functions 
• Experience assessing and designing internal controls that address strategic, operational, reporting, and compliance risks across financial, operational, administrative and information technology (IT) processes 
• Ability to, and passion for, developing and expanding relationships with current and prospective clients 
• Experience participating in engagement pursuits, and preparing impactful materials in response to Requests for Information (RFI), Requests for Proposals (RFP) and other client engagement opportunities 
• Contribute to the development and advancement of our solutions, capabilities and thought leadership 
• Experience with analytics and visualization, and presentation approaches and solutions preferred 
• Experience working with organizations that utilize SAP, Workday, Oracle, or Infor preferred 
• Strong leadership, business development, recruiting, training, coaching, and mentoring skills 
• Can travel as needed 

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