Chicago Internal Audit & Financial Advisory Senior Consultant

You Belong Here

The Protiviti Careerprovidesopportunity 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 ofintegrity, 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: 

Protivitiis looking for an Internal Audit & Financial Advisory Senior Consultant to join our growing team. 

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 ofManagers, 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. 

What Will Help You Be Successful: 

• You enjoy identifying areas of business andprocessrisk, and opportunities to improve efficiency, increase performance, and help clientsmanage risk.

• You are motivated to learn and interested in all things related tointernal audit andbusiness processes, 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 haveinterestin working with a diverse portfolio of clients acrossmultipleindustries. 

• You are versed inleveragingAI to enhance personal productivity as well as internal audit and SOX activities, including planning,fieldworkand reporting.

Do Your Talents Include the Following?

Experience with or understanding of:

• Audit methodologies and developing important internal audit deliverables, including process flows, work programs, audit reports, and control summaries.

• Risk and control programs.

• Business processes such as Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Inventory, Revenue with knowledge of accounting operations and/or financial frameworks.

• Commonly used International Professional Practices Framework, including COSO and PCAOB.

• Sarbanes-Oxley Act provisions and methodologies for achieving compliance.

• The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA’s) code of ethics and compliance requirements.

• Evaluating, summarizing, organizing, and interpretingdata. 

• Establishing and cultivating business relationships and a professional network. 

• Ability to translate and communicaterisktopics 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.  

• Experience performing documentation of findings and summarizing recommendations. 

• You are versed inleveragingAI to enhance personal productivity as well as internal audit and SOX activities, including planning,fieldworkand reporting.

Your Educational and Professional Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree inarelevant discipline (e.g.,Accounting, Finance, orbusiness-relatedfield).

• 2+ 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.

• Professional Certification such as CPA, CIA, or similarpreferred.

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 requirementsvariesby 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.