Houston Technology Audit & Advisory Senior Consultant

You Belong Here

TheProtiviti Career providesopportunityto learn, inspire, and advance within a collaborative and inclusive culture. We hire curious individuals for whom learning is a passion. We lean into our mission:We Care. We Collaborate. We Deliver.

At every level, we champion leaders wholiveour values ofintegrity, inclusion, innovation, and commitment to success. Imagining our work as a journey, we believe integrity guides our way, inclusion moves us forward together, innovation creates new destinations, and our commitment to success empowers us to deliver on our vision to be the most trusted global consulting firm.

Where We Need You:

Protivitiis looking for a Technology Audit & Advisory Senior Consultant to join our growing team.

What You Can Expect:

As a Senior Consultant, youwill be a mentor, trainer, and coachto Interns and Consultants as youfacilitatethe successful completion of project work plans.You’llidentifyareas of risk and opportunities to increase efficiency.You’llstrengthen relationshipsand deepen your abilities to communicate, gain trust, and network withclient personnel and professional associates. At the direction ofManagers, you may accept responsibility for decision-makingin areas includingestablishing project scope and work plans,project staffing,preparation of deliverables, andapplication of methodologies.

At Protiviti, Technology Audit & Advisory focuses on:

• Helping clientsbetter manage risks associated with their use of technology, protecting and enhancing enterprise value.

• Innovation:identifyingsolutions to client problems related to technology, helping them to rethink how technology processes are managed by incorporating AI and automation.

• Technology enablement:Incorporating analytics, AI, automation and other new tools and methods in the execution of audit work for our clients, enabling a deeper, broader, more efficient, and more insightful analysis of our clients’ technology risks.

• Staying current:We support a broad set of potential certifications and related trainings for our team, equipping our technology audit organization to stay at the forefront of emerging risks and trends.

Consultants in Technology Audit & Advisory work with clients to assess,identifyrisk, advise, and consult on different technology-related topics, including:

• Cybersecurity

• Cloud Assurance

• Project Risk Advisory

• Technology Risk Management and Assessment

• IT General Controls (ITGC)

• AI and Data Governance

• Data Privacy

• Technology Regulations

• Enterprise Applications

• Technology Resilience

• IT Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance

• Emerging Technologies

• 2ndLine Controls Governance

• Technology Enablement

What Will Help You Be Successful:

• You enjoyidentifyingareas of business and technology risk, and opportunities to improveefficiency, increase performance, andhelp clients betterutilizeall technologies.

• You are motivated to learn and interested in all things related to data and technology, including the latest trends and developments.

• Youare passionate aboutbuildingrelationships with clients andproviding clients with exceptional experiences.

• You have an inherent interest in project management and team leadership.

• You contribute toa positiveteam culture thatfosters open communication among all engagement team members.

• You create development opportunitiesfor othersand ways for your team to improve ourclients and communities.

• You haveinterestin working with a diverse portfolio of clients across multiple industries.

• You are versed inleveragingAI to enhance personal productivity as well as internal audit and SOX activities, including planning,fieldworkand reporting.

Do Your TalentsInclude the Following?

• Experience with or understanding of:

• IT audit methodologies and developing necessary audit deliverables, including process flows, work programs, audit reports, and control summaries.

• Commonly used internal control frameworks, including COBIT, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CIS, ITIL, etc.

• Sarbanes-Oxley Act provisions and methodologies for achieving compliance, in particular the technology implications and requirements.

• Exposure to and/or interest in:

• The latest trends and developments in data and technology, including high-growth topics of cybersecurity, cloud, data governance, privacy, analytics, enterprise applications (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Workday, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics etc.), disaster recovery, systems development methodologies etc.

• Analytics and technology enablement (automation, AI/MLetc.).

• Evaluating, summarizing, organizing, and interpreting data.

• Establishing and cultivating business relationships and a professional network.

• Ability to translateand communicatetechnology topics and audit issuestoclient personnel, including executives.

• Supervisory experience of teams including mentoring, oversight and review of work, coordination across teams, and understanding how to motivate.

• Experience performing documentation of findings and summarizing recommendations.

Your Educational and Professional Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree inarelevant discipline (e.g.,Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, orbusiness-relatedfield).

• 2+ years working in internal audit, consulting, assurance services, riskandcontrol programs, or relatedfield, either in professional services orindustry.

• Proficiencyin Microsoft Office suite applications with specific emphasis on Word,Exceland PowerPoint. Secondary emphasis on Visio and Access.

• ProficiencyinPowerBI, Tableau, Alteryx, SQL, Python,and/orRPA Solutionsa plus.

• Professionalcertification such as CIA, CRMA, CISA, CISM, CISSP, or similarpreferred.

Our Hybrid Workplace

Protiviti practices a hybrid model, which is a combination of working in person with a purpose and working remotely. This model creates meaningful experiences for our people and our clients while offering a flexible environment. The ratio of remote to in-person requirementsvariesby client, project, team, and other business factors. Our people work both in-person in local Protiviti offices and on client sites, which can include local or out-of-state travel based on our projects and client requests and commitments.