Risk Advisory - Associate Director

Risk Advisory - Associate Director

In today's dynamic environment, business leaders face constantly shifting risks. Riveron helps organizations implement leading governance, risk and compliance practices by combining deep expertise with pragmatic partnership, using a hands-on approach to understand the specific needs of the organization and create tailored solutions to address key compliance risks.

Our Risk Advisory services include SOX readiness, managed internal controls testing and monitoring, co-sourced / outsourced internal audit, segregation of duties and access risk review, policy and procedure development, enterprise risk management, and IT and cybersecurity risk assessment.

Who You Are :

Bachelor's and / or Master's degree in Accounting, and CPA, CIA, and / or CISA Certification preferred

7+ years experience, the majority of which is within external audit or risk advisory roles

Ability to lead an engagement with appropriate oversight; someone who wants to collaborate to deliver outstanding work to clients

Experience supervising direct reports, coaching and teaching less experienced personnel, and / or leading project teams

Demonstrated knowledge of business risks, internal controls over financial reporting, SOX, the COSO framework

Ability to navigate complex processes in client walkthroughs, determining gaps and weaknesses in ICFR to be evaluated in real-time.

Experience interacting with clients, establishing credibility, trust and healthy relationships

Desire to help build our growing team, underlying methodologies, and practices

What You'll Do :

Gain an understanding of the assigned clients' objectives as well as their regulatory and risk management environment

Lead projects in the areas of Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance / Internal Controls

Execute risk assessments in consideration of risk of misstatement and risk of fraud in financial reporting

Assess internal controls' design adequacy to mitigate financial, operational, and compliance risks

Identify control gaps and improvement items and design controls in a greenfield environment. Design detailed remediation roadmaps to close those gaps.

Exhibit proficiency with creating internal controls process flows and risk / control matrices

Maintain the level of technical competency and professional care required for the completion of assignments in accordance with COSO, COBIT, auditing standards, and related control techniques

Set priorities, ensuring daily coordination among the project team, and monitor progress against schedules, budgets, project / task deliverables, and status reporting

Plan, review, and provide direction for the work of Staff and Senior Consultants

Communicate extensively with clients to drive expectations and report on the status of ongoing projects.

Deliver oral and written presentations during and at the conclusion of projects by either recommending improvements or any operational / financial deficiencies to executive leadership

Stay abreast of emerging risk areas and related control techniques

Strengthen and maintain a network of industry contacts and establish new long-term relationships