Chicago Technology Audit & Advisory Senior Consultant

The Protiviti Career provides opportunity to 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 who live our values of integrity, 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:  

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

What You Can Expect:  

As a Senior Consultant, you will be a mentor, trainer, and coach to Interns and Consultants as you facilitate the successful completion of project work plans. You’ll identify areas of risk and opportunities to increase efficiency. You’ll strengthen relationships and deepen your abilities to communicate, gain trust, and network with client personnel and professional associates.  At the direction of Managers, you may accept responsibility for decision-making in areas including establishing project scope and work plans, project staffing, preparation of deliverables, and application of methodologies.  

At Protiviti, Technology Audit & Advisory focuses on:  

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

• Innovation: identifying solutions 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, identify risk, 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  

• 2nd Line Controls Governance 

• Technology Enablement 

What Will Help You Be Successful:  

• You enjoy identifying areas of business and technology risk, and opportunities to improve efficiency, increase performance, and help clients better utilize all technologies.  

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

• You are passionate about building relationships with clients and providing clients with exceptional experiences. 

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

• You contribute to a positive team culture that fosters open communication among all engagement team members.  

• You create development opportunities for others and ways for your team to improve our clients and communities. 

• You have interest in working with a diverse portfolio of clients across multiple industries.  

• You are versed in leveraging AI to enhance personal productivity as well as internal audit and SOX activities, including planning, fieldwork and reporting. 

Do Your Talents Include 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/ML etc.).  

• Evaluating, summarizing, organizing, and interpreting data. 

• Establishing and cultivating business relationships and a professional network.  

• Ability to translate and communicate technology topics and audit issues to client 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 in a relevant discipline (e.g., Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or business-related field).  

• 2+ years working in internal audit, consulting, assurance services, risk and control programs, or related field, either in professional services or industry. 

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite applications with specific emphasis on Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Secondary emphasis on Visio and Access.  

• Proficiency in PowerBI, Tableau, Alteryx, SQL, Python, and/or RPA Solutions a plus.  

• Professional certification such as CIA, CRMA, CISA, CISM, CISSP, or similar preferred.   

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 requirements varies by 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.