Kansas City Technology Audit & Advisory Experienced Consultant

You Belong Here

The Protiviti Career providesopportunity 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 Experienced Consultant to join our growing team. 

What You Can Expect: 

As an Experienced Consultant, you’ll be provided excellent training and meaningful mentorship to deepen your understanding of business processes and build technical skills.  You’ll conduct interviews, compile, and analyze data, and document findings.  Through interaction with client and project team personnel, you’ll develop professional relationships that contribute to exceptional client service.  You’lllearn time and project management and take ownership of assignments. 

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 gathering, summarizing, and examining data.  

• You are motivated to learn and are interested in all things related to data and technology, including the latest trends and developments. 

• You are passionate about contributing to client relationships and providing clients with exceptional experiences.

• You facilitate teamwork by contributing to team effort, sharing responsibility for team results, and exhibiting a positive attitude. 

• You are eager to learn the client’s business and industry which in turn helps you build out your business knowledge and skills.

• You have interest in working with 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.

Do Your Talents Include the Following? 

• 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. 

• 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.). 

• Experience performing documentation of findings and summarizing recommendations. 

Your Educational and Professional Qualifications:

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

• 1+ years working in internal audit, consulting, assurance services, risk and control programs, 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. 

• Proficiency in PowerBI, Tableau, Alteryx, SQL, Python, and/or RPA Solutions a plus.

• Professional certification such as CIA, CRMA, CISA, CISM, CISSP, or similar a plus.

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.