Cybersecurity CMMC Senior Associate

Cherry Bekaert • Austin, TX

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

Ranked among the largest accounting and consulting firms in the country and consistently recognized as a Great Place to Work, Cherry Bekaert delivers innovative advisory, assurance and tax services to our clients. At Cherry Bekaert we create shared success through teamwork, energy, and expertise. We approach today’s toughest business challenges with a client-first mindset, working together to create exceptional value. We are all committed to making a difference for our people, our clients, our community, and our professions. To meet this commitment, Cherry Bekaert will provide you with the space to pursue growth and development opportunities that will guide and support you at each stage of your personal and professional journey. In support of our growing Information Assurance & Cybersecurity Solutions practice, we have an excellent opportunity for candidates with significant CMMC or FedRAMP experience working in a professional services firm or within corporate GRC, IT, Internal Audit, Cybersecurity, or Compliance teams to join us as a Senior Associate with the flexibility to sit in multiple offices throughout our footprint or possibly remote for the right resource consistent with delivery needs. In addition to being an early leader in building our CMMC practice, you will be involved in a variety of other engagements that IA/Cyber team provides, and you will be working significantly across a variety of consulting, governance, readiness assessments, risk management and remediation efforts, and attestation/certifications services for clients with the following areas of focus: CMMC FedRAMP, StateRAMP, TXRAMP NIST (NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53) If you are an active learner with a growth mindset, good at managing clients and projects, want to be part of a growing team, use your existing knowledge sets and teach others, let's have a conversation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Information Security, Information Systems, Computer Science, Cybersecurity or Accounting
• Relevant professional certification (CMMC CCA or passed CCA with pending background)
• Minimum 2+ years of experience with controls assessments or consulting externally or leading internal controls implementation and/or SSP DocDev or attestation services for CMMC or FedRAMP
• Willingness to learn and deliver, in a consulting and attestation services model, on compliance standards that you may have little to no experience with
• Outstanding relationship management, written and verbal communication, as well as presentation skills
• Ability to travel to client sites as need, not expected to exceed 25%

Responsibilities

• Senior Associates support the delivery of consulting and attestation services.
• As a Senior Associate you will help understand client needs, perform gap assessments, identify and document control environments, identify design or operating effectiveness gaps, vulnerabilities, audit exceptions, develop recommendations to management, and assist management with policy DocDev and controls implementations.
• Ensure effective project delivery, including quality control and oversight supervision, assisting with adequate planning, execution, and direction to manage to budget and to quality
• Identify areas to improve project delivery (process improvement)
• Regarding attestation and certification services delivery, support the development of strong work papers in conformance with the firm’s methodology/standards and participation in report drafting
• Maintain a strong client focus by understanding the client’s business needs while developing productive working relationships with client personnel to accomplish project objectives
• Multi-task across multiple clients and compliance standards, while still maintaining appropriate attention to detail
• Work with (lead, teach, support, and communicate) offshore resources to deliver projects where practical and where available
• Utilize your experiences to teach others in the practice on new approaches, execution strategies, compliance standards, etc.

Benefits

• Our shared values that foster inclusion and belonging including uncompromising integrity, collaboration, trust, and mutual respect
• The opportunity to innovate and do work that motivates and engages you
• A collaborative environment focused on enabling you to further your career growth and continuous professional development
• Competitive compensation and a total rewards package that focuses on all aspects of your wellbeing
• Flexibility to do impactful work and the time to enjoy your life outside of work
• Opportunities to connect and learn from professionals from different backgrounds and with different cultures
• medical, dental, and vision care; disability and life insurance; generous Paid Time Off; retirement plans; Paid Care Leave; and other programs that are dedicated to enhancing your personal and work life and providing you and your family with a measure of financial protection.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees