Assurance Associate, Technology Risk Assurance

About the Role

As an Assurance Associate, Technology Risk Assurance, you will utilize your educational background and organizational skills to serve the firm's clients. You will assist in problem-solving and fact-finding, working with experienced team members who will provide direction, coaching, and learning opportunities. You will gain an understanding of the IT environment during fieldwork by interviewing client personnel and performing an IT general controls risk assessment in areas such as new hire and terminated user controls testing, user access controls testing, and program change controls testing. You will also work within engagement teams to develop recommendations for improving client controls environments and audit strategies to respond to controls findings.

Key Responsibilities

• Assists in performing audit engagements, including risk assessments of IT environments, covering access administration, program change management, operations, and logical access security.
• Provides input to management leaders on suggestions to improve client internal controls and procedures.
• Maintains relationships with and speaks to key client personnel to obtain an understanding of IT and business operations, processes, and functions.
• Assists the core financial audit team in identifying controls issues, analyzing potential impacts on audits, and developing compensating controls and substantive audit strategies.
• Documents work completed by preparing workpapers.
• Assists engagement teams in applying tools and data analytics to enhance effectiveness and efficiency in audits.
• Other duties as required.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Opportunities are available to train and mentor interns and incoming associates after your first year as an Associate.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Information Systems, or Information Technology, required.

Experience

• Prior internship or work study experience of information systems and operational auditing experience, preferred.

License/Certifications

• Actively pursuing (or committed to) completion of one or more of the following certification exams: CISA, CISSP, CPA, CITP, CIA, or other relevant certification, required.

Software

• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite, preferred.
• Exposure to various industry ERP applications, highly preferred.

Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical and basic research skills.
• Solid organizational skills, especially ability to meet project deadlines with a focus on details.
• Ability to successfully multi-task while working independently or within a group environment.
• Proven ability to work in a deadline-driven environment and handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Basic knowledge of internal controls.
• Ability to travel as necessary.