Toronto Technology Audit & Advisory (Financial Services) Senior Consultant

Protiviti • Toronto, ON

48d • $72,000 - $108,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Protiviti is looking for a Technology Audit & Advisory Senior Consultant 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.

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.

At Protiviti, Technology Audit & Advisory focuses on:

Helping clients better manage risks associated with their use of technology, to protect and lead enterprise value.
Innovation: new ways of thinking and new ways of doing.
Technology enablement: analytics, automation and other new tools and methods.
Staying current: building skills in all areas of evolving technology.
Senior Consultants in Technology Audit & Advisory work with clients to assess, identify risk, advise, and consult on different technology related topics, including:

IT General Controls (ITGC)
IT Frameworks
Cybersecurity
Cloud Audit
Data Governance & Privacy
Enterprise Applications
Technology Resilience
Disaster Recovery
IT SOX
Analytics
Emerging Technologies
Control programs
Technology Enablement

Requirements

• 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 the financial services industry.
• 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.
• Financial services industry regulations.
• Experience performing documentation of findings and summarizing recommendations.
• 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 within the financial services industry.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite applications with specific emphasis on Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• All applicants applying for Canadian job openings need authorization to work in Canada for Protiviti without sponsorship now or in the future.
• As part of Protiviti’s employment process, any offer of employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check.

Nice To Haves

• 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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• mentor, trainer, and coach to Interns and Consultants as you facilitate the successful completion of project work plans
• identify areas of risk and opportunities to increase efficiency
• strengthen relationships and deepen your abilities to communicate, gain trust, and network with client personnel and professional associates
• accept responsibility for decision-making in areas including establishing project scope and work plans, project staffing, preparation of deliverables, and application of methodologies
• partner with highly regulated clients and deepen your understanding of financial services regulations
• assess, identify risk, advise, and consult on different technology related topics

What This Job Offers

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