Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same.
Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:
Minimum Degree Required
CIA, CPA or CISA
Demonstrates extensive knowledge of providing services related to process and controls, risk assessment and controls testing methodologies across the 3 lines of defense, including business process, financial reporting and IT management controls as well as risk management, compliance and operational processes, which includes a record of success with facilitating and completing deliverables involving the following:
- Business process, financial reporting and IT risks, processes and controls;
- Key domains of IT general controls, including data privacy and IT security, including change management, access to programs and data, computer operations, and systems development;
- Corporate Governance and Sarbanes Oxley Act's regulations and requirements, including compliance readiness programs;
- Financial and operational fraud risk management;
- Antifraud internal controls;
- Third Party Risk Management;
- Anti-corruption and anti-bribery;
- Current and emerging technologies within controls and testing automation and analytics; and,
- COSO Framework, CoBIT and/or other leading business and IT control frameworks.Demonstrates extensive abilities and/or a record of success in the understanding of current issues key executives contemplate within a variety of sectors (consumer markets, energy, utilities and resources, industrial manufacturing and automotive, technology, media and communications), including how all 3 Lines of Defense can play a role within the organization to address the risks.
Demonstrates extensive abilities and/or a proven record of success related to risks and controls within a professional services firm or large enterprise as a consultant, auditor or business process specialist, including business process, financial reporting and IT management controls, which includes a record of success with completing deliverables related to the following:
- Identifying key risks and controls, controls optimization, including the configuration of controls around, business process and within IT environments;
- Applying internal control principles and business/technical knowledge including IT general controls and application controls; financial reporting concepts; working experience applying professional skepticism skills;
- Leading the building and adaption of test programs and practice aids, as well as perform assessments, to evaluate controls, identify control issues and potential for remediation and optimization;
- Exhibiting project management skills, including developing project plans, budgets, and deliverables schedules; and,
- Creating a positive environment, monitoring workloads of the team while meeting client expectations, and respecting the work-life quality of team members. This includes providing candid, meaningful feedback in a timely manner and keeping leadership informed of progress.Demonstrates extensive abilities and/or a record of success in the following areas:
- Using technical resources and tools to research and expand one's sphere of knowledge to enhance work product, significantly contribute to business development efforts and remaining up to date on client and firm hot topics;
- Collaborating directly with clients, identifying and addressing client needs through building relationships with clients, understanding the client's business, communicating a broad range of Firm services to the client in an organized and knowledgeable manner;
- Managing day-to-day engagement operations, including preparing concise, accurate documents and balancing project economics management with the occurrence of unanticipated issues;
- Demonstrating flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks and communicating potential conflicts to leadership; and,
- Creating high quality deliverables using appropriate business and technical language, especially developing and reviewing audit programs or testing steps, adapting an audit program to suit a client's specific environment, and/or designing controls evaluation and testing work plans.
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