New York Technology Audit & Advisory (Financial Services) Manager

You Belong Here  

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 Manager to join our growing Financial Services team.  

Protiviti’s Financial Services practice is widely recognized as a leading provider of consulting services across the three lines of defense for financial institutions. We empower our clients to be more effective and efficient in a way that is risk-sensitive, regulatory compliant, well controlled, and enabled by leading technologies.  

What You Can Expect:  

As a Manager, you’ll partner with our clients to solve complex business problems and provide impactful advice and solutions.  You’ll develop lasting relationships with client personnel and further these relationships through quality product delivery.  You’ll foster a network within the business community and serve as an ambassador of Protiviti in the market.  You will also be a mentor, trainer, and coach to Consultants and Senior Consultants as you facilitate the successful completion of project work plans. By focusing on clients and engagements in the financial services industry, you’ll partner with highly regulated clients and deepen your expertise in financial services regulations. 

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 exceptional experiences. 

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

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

• You create development opportunities for others, including participating in the creation and rollout of training, and ways for your team to improve our clients and communities. 

• You have interest in participating in the preparation of client proposals and strategies to win new business.  

• You have interest in working with a diverse portfolio of clients across the financial services industry.  

• 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?   

• Demonstrated experience with:  

• 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.  

• Hands-on experience supporting or executing cybersecurity assessment/audits, cloud or technical infrastructure audits, and/or AI/ emerging technology governance reviews, including evaluating control design and identifying risk and remediation actions.

• Financial services industry regulations and hands-on industry knowledge. 

• A passion for: 

• 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, including with senior executives.  

• Ability to translate and communicate technology topics and audit issues to client personnel, including executives.  

• Leadership and direct supervisory experience of teams including conducting performance appraisals, mentoring and coaching, oversight and review of work, coordination across teams, and understanding how to motivate.   

Your Educational and Professional Qualifications:  

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or business-related field).  

• 5+ years working in technology audit, consulting, assurance services, risk and control programs, or related field, either in professional services or within the financial services 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 strongly 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.