Chicago Risk & Compliance - Lender Due Diligence - Senior Consultant

Protiviti•Chicago, IL

2d•$89,000 - $134,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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 Risk & Compliance Senior Consultant to join our growing Lender Due Diligence 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 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. By focusing on clients and engagements in the financial services industry, you’ll partner with highly regulated clients and deepen your understanding of financial services regulations. What Will Help You Be Successful You enjoy help our clients to address key credit risks and concerns by performing reviews of the “target” company (our client’s customer) and the assets that are part of a lending transaction (collectively, the “deal”). You are motivated to learn and interested in all things related to Lender Due Diligence/reviews, 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 contributing to the preparation of client proposals and strategies to win new business. You excel at identifying opportunities to integrate product solutions and resources to improve client service capabilities. You have interest in working with a diverse portfolio of clients across the Financial Services industry.

Requirements

Demonstrated experience with: Strong auditing experience in the areas of credit risk and the related processes, controls, and reporting for different asset classes.
General financial accounting background and experience.
Knowledge of receivables (loans, trade, etc.) accounting and transaction processing.
Ability to assess financial statement accuracy and compliance with GAAP or IFRS.
Experience designing and performing substantive and control testing over loans, receivables, and related transactions.
Performing an agreed-upon set of procedures which may include the evaluation of collateral, the target company’s processes, reporting capabilities and quality of data associated with those assets.
Evaluating, summarizing, organizing, and interpreting data.
Ability to work successfully in a fast-paced, client service focused, consultative work environment and contribute to the engagement team’s success.
Establishing and cultivating business relationships and a professional network, including with senior executives.
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline.
2+ years working in working in internal or external audit, consulting, assurance services, 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.

Nice To Haves

Prior lender due diligence experience, especially for securitization conduit and/or warehouse facilities, is a plus.
Prior securitization/structured finance experience in any of the various asset classes (ABS, RMBS, CMBS, CLO) with ABS or CLO experience being the most preferred.
Asset Based Lending (ABL) experience is a plus.
Professional certification is a plus (CPA, ACA, ACCA, or equivalent).
Professional Certification such as CPA, CIA, FRM, or similar strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

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.
You enjoy help our clients to address key credit risks and concerns by performing reviews of the “target” company (our client’s customer) and the assets that are part of a lending transaction (collectively, the “deal”).
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 contributing to the preparation of client proposals and strategies to win new business.
You excel at identifying opportunities to integrate product solutions and resources to improve client service capabilities.
You have interest in working with a diverse portfolio of clients across the Financial Services industry.

Benefits

Employees are eligible for medical, dental, and vision coverages, FSA and HSA healthcare accounts, life and accident insurance, adoption and fertility assistance, paid parental leave up to 10 weeks, and short/long term disability.
We offer eligible employees a company 401(k) savings and investment plan with an employer match of 50% on the first 6% of your contributions.
We provide Choice Time Off (CTO) for vacation, personal needs, and sick time. The amount of (CTO) varies based on years of service. New hires receive up to 20 days of CTO per calendar year.
Protiviti also recognizes up to 11 paid holidays each calendar year.

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