New York Technology Consulting Technology Risk Management & Governance (Financial Services) Associate Director

Are You Ready to Live Protiviti?

The Protiviti Career provides opportunities to learn, inspire, and advance within a collaborative and diverse company culture. We hire curious people for whom learning is an everyday activity. We fuel your curiosity with challenging work, talented colleagues, and creative learning resources. At every level, we champion leaders who influence and achieve results. We encourage you to “bring your whole self to work” – all of your motivations, passions, priorities, and commitments – as these things bring us closer to exceptional.

That's Living Protiviti.

We strive to recruit and hire the best talent, and it does not stop there. Once you join us, we promise to help you bring your career to life through exceptional work experiences, a culture passionate about learning and development, and a dedication to what matters to you.

Are you inspired to make a difference?

Then you have come to the right place.

Where We Need You:

The New York Office is seeking a Technology Risk Management & Governance Associate Director to join our growing team.

What You Can Expect:

Associate Directors take the lead role in strengthening our relationships with key clients and provide seamless guidance in the completion of these engagements. Associate Directors have a solid understanding of their client’s business and demonstrate technical competence in their solution and industry. Associate Directors have the opportunity to develop new projects at loyal clients and also help identify new developing clients. Associate Directors are responsible for the success of all client-related work within their portfolio and manage the success of these engagements. Associate Directors develop lasting relationships within the business community and are respected for their areas of expertise.

What Will Help You Be Successful:

• You are passionate about building trusted relationships with C-level executives and providing superior service that is used as a reference in obtaining additional work.

• You take the lead role in maintaining primary contact with significant clients while managing their expectations, project scope, and related operational matters.

• You enjoy participating in engagement sales opportunities and consistently develop work at existing clients.

• You have an interest in converting client business challenges into additional sales opportunities.

• You enjoy discovering new opportunities with current and potential clients and through thought leadership, proposal writing, and client interactions.

• You design and develop thought leadership materials to be shared with your colleagues and your network.

• You promote Protiviti’s mission, vision, and values and encourage collaboration across your teams to ensure effective execution.

• You have an inherent interest in project management and team leadership. You seek new ways to create extraordinary development opportunities and ways for your team to make an impact on our clients and communities.

Do Your Talents Include the Following?

• Experience in technology risk management and/or technology audit, compliance, or regulatory functions with assessing technology risks and controls, performing risk and control evaluations in a variety of IT environments with demonstrated background in applying risk and control, security, and technology principles

• Experience with frameworks including ITIL, COBIT, and/or COSO.

• Technical experience across all aspects of the SDLC DevOps lifecycle including source code version control, code quality, build management, containerization, orchestration, continuous testing / automated tools, automated integration testing, automated regression testing, security testing, etc.

• Technical experience reviewing the work of first-line technology and providing effective challenges to their solution design, build, and control effectiveness evidence

• Ability to execute and assess against FFIEC IT Exam Handbook to validate IT risk

• Experience evaluating IT architecture design for infrastructure, virtualization, cloud technology and business technology architecture for financial institutions in context with specific risks involving scalability

• Experience assessing program and project management competencies for risk management control effectiveness across methodologies (i.e., Waterfall, SAFE, SCRUM)

• Experience evaluating key technology processes, such as asset management, issue management, patch management, and/or change management

• Previous experience with FSI products/services areas is preferred, including but not limited to commercial banking, capital markets, bank cards/payments, insurance, asset management or broker-dealer

• Ability to work with a diverse portfolio of clients across industries

• Supervisory experience of teams including Consultants, Senior Consultants, Managers, and Senior Managers

• Advanced project management and status reporting capabilities

• Ability to network and build relationships

• Ability to network and build relationships at the C- level

• Ability to develop timely and relevant thought leadership on emerging trends and technologies

Your Educational and Professional Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant discipline (e.g. MIS, CIS) required

• 12+ years in a related field required; preferably in professional services and/or industry

• Certifications including but not limited to disciplines such as architecture (e.g., TOGAF), application life cycle management (e.g., PMP, Agile Scrum/Product Owner, SAFe, DevOps), service management (e.g., ITIL) are strongly preferred

• Technology specific certifications around VMware, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, MCSA/MCSE, Cisco, etc. are a plus

Do You Love Exploring New Places?

We travel throughout the month frequently based upon client requests/commitments. Travel may include suburban, regional, or out-of-state locations.