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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 Associate Director to join our growing team.

What You Can Expect:

As an Associate Director, you'll take a lead role in strengthening client relationships and providing strategic guidance across complex capital programs and construction projects. You'll partner with clients to identify construction and capital project delivery risks, technical challenges, and opportunities to enhance the efficiency, governance, and performance of capital investments. You'll develop innovative strategies to solve complex business problems and devise solutions that address client needs using leading practices, data-driven insights, and emerging tools and methodologies. You'll also help develop new business opportunities, expand existing client relationships, and contribute to the growth of our Technology Audit practice. You'll build lasting relationships with clients and within the business community while serving as an ambassador of Protiviti in the market. You will also mentor and develop high-performing teams, provide leadership across engagements, and oversee the successful delivery of project work plans while driving quality, innovation, and exceptional client service.

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 passionate about building trusted relationships with C-level executives and providing exceptional experiences that translate to additional project work.

• You have interest and flexibility in serving clients in the energy and utilities industry.

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

• You are driven to pursue leadership opportunities both internally and with clients.

• 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 enjoy discovering prospective project work with current and potential clients through networking, knowledge-building, and client interactions.

• You excel at identifying opportunities to integrate product solutions and resources to improve client service capabilities.

• You view client challenges as opportunities to add value and can translate that into new project proposals and sales.

• You are seen as a valued contributor to thought leadership and encourage knowledge-sharing and collaboration across teams.

• You have interest in managing 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.

• You understand collaborating across time zones, working effectively with diverse, geographically distributed teams to deliver seamless client service.

Do Your Talents Include the Following?

Demonstrated experience with:

• Leading teams in implementing 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.

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.).

• Experience serving clients in the energy and utilities industry.

• Establishing and cultivating business relationships and a professional network, including with senior executives.

• Successfully pursue business development opportunities and identifying and implementing strategies to obtain new work or clientele.

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

• Handling project management and administrative responsibilities, such as budgeting, invoicing, and project resourcing.

• 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.

• Experience working across different teaming models, including offshore resources, is a plus.

Your Educational and Professional Qualifications:

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

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

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite applications. Secondary emphasis on Gen AI tools (e.g., Copilot, Claude, etc.).

• Proficiency in PowerBI, Tableau, Alteryx, Python, RPA Solutions, or other Analytics tools strongly preferred.

• 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.