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Risk Technology Consultant Intern

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Crowe

Risk Technology Consultant Intern

Chicago, IL +1 location
Internship
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Why Crowe?

    Do you want to have the freedom to think on your own and innovate?

    Crowe cultivates a creative company culture where you will have the opportunity to share your ideas and knowledge with clients from your very first day with the firm.

    Worried that a career in consulting and public accounting won’t allow you any free time?

    Crowe offers a true work-life balance, allowing you to spend time with your family and friends or pursue outside interests. In the professional service industry, travel is necessary, but Crowe offers a variety of perks and options – including our work-from-home Mobility Program and Road Warrior Program – that allow our employees to embrace and enjoy our line of business. With most projects concluding by Thursday or Friday, you will not be away from home on weekends.

    Do you want to be rewarded and promoted based on your abilities and achievements instead of your tenure with a company?

    Crowe values all of your hard work and rewards you with a competitive salary and great benefits. As part of our employee evaluation cycle, all of our employees receive feedback for their work on projects and increases in compensation and bonuses based on their accomplishments and contributions to the firm’s goals.

    We understand that, in order to be satisfied in your career, every aspect of your life needs to be fulfilled. We offer the opportunities to experience traveling to places both large and small, work in interesting client environments, and enrich your career and technical skillset while providing you a balance with your personal life.

    Crowe ranked seventh on this Fortune list, in addition to being named one of Fortune’s “Top 100 Best Companies to Work For” and among Fortune’s “20 Best Workplaces in Consulting & Professional Services.” In these surveys, Crowe personnel attribute the following policies to making Crowe a great place to work:

    • Innovation: Crowe promotes new ideas and creativity. Each year, Crowe invests approximately two percent of firm revenue in new product development funding to bring employees’ ideas to fruition. Crowe’s new product development process facilitates the exploration and development of a prototype of the solution before its production. These solutions aim to address clients’ challenges and streamline processes.

    • Mobility strategy: Implemented more than two years ago, this strategy defied the norm of the professional services industry. Crowe personnel can work where they are most productive – whether that be the office, their home or elsewhere – and wear jeans while they are in the office. This policy continues to be well received by employees across all business units.

    • Benefits: The firm promotes healthy living through Fitness Center reimbursement and its internal well-being portal, which allows Crowe individuals to complete wellness activities – such as exercise challenges, healthy eating, doctor visits and mindful lifestyle changes – for gift cards and health insurance premium reductions. Additionally, on top of its healthcare and retirement programs, Crowe recently expanded its paid time off policies for military leave and all new parents.

    • Community service: Crowe places a high priority on community service, as acknowledged in the Fortune Best Workplaces for Giving Back list. In honor of the firm’s 75th year, Crowe personnel are working toward a combined goal of 75,000 hours of volunteering. In addition, Crowe aligns its charitable contributions with the volunteer efforts of its people through initiatives such as matching contributions and donations to employees’ charities of choice. To learn more, visit the Crowe Horwath Foundation Page.

    Opportunity:

    Joining our Risk Consulting practice is an opportunity to help make the world more honest, transparent, safe, and secure. From day one of your career, you will assist our clients to transform their governance, embed risk in their decision-making and maintain efficient compliance. We will enable an entrepreneurial and innovative environment for you to deliver transformative risk consulting services and to develop deeply specialized skill sets demanded in today’s market. We offer the opportunities to expand and enrich your career, while allowing you a balance your personal life, through a flexible work environment, robust talent development program and attractive benefits.

    We are the technical leaders of our firm that assist community, regional, national, and international clients assess and refine their information security posture, technology implementations, and regulatory compliance. Our clients are companies in most major industries, such as manufacturing, high-tech, financial services, banking, healthcare, transportation, government, entertainment, insurance, and higher education.

    Our team will help you will become an Information Security Specialist within your first couple of years. Starting from day one, you will be in the field working side by side with our security professionals and directly with our clients around the country! This is not a typical desk job. A number of our team members have also presented their research and tools developed at security conferences around the country.

  • Qualifications

    Desirable Pre-requisite Knowledge:

    • Strong interpersonal skills to interact in team environment and foster client relationships
    • Ability to work both independently and in a team environment
    • Strong analytical and problem solving skills
    • Familiar with auditing concepts (sampling, creating controls, testing controls)
    • Knowledge of technology development principles
    • Understanding of commonly used internal control frameworks, including COSO and COBIT
    • Proficient in Microsoft Office suite applications with specific emphasis on Word, Excel and PowerPoint
    • Eager to develop strong technical skills for technologies and applications our clients use

    Expectations:

    • This is a fast-paced environment with a high learning curve, so we provide many resources and on-the-job training opportunities – if you are willing to learn and build your areas of expertise, you will succeed. You will be exposed to a variety of technologies in different environments

    Candidates must:

    • Be willing to travel 50%-75% (2-3 weeks per month)
    • Our team travels mostly around the continental US (international travel possible)
    • Most travel consists of 3 or 4 overnights per week
    • Have a passion for Internal Audit, IT Controls, Risk and/or Compliance, and Information Security-related activities
    • Have a desire to continue personal growth through continuing professional education, self-study, pursuit of accounting, audit, and related technical certifications (CPA, CIA, CISA, etc.), and mentoring/training less experienced team members
    • Be capable of independently managing time and able to prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment
    • Be able to communicate technical findings to non-technical audiences, such as company officers (CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, COOs) and Audit Committees

    Education:

    We are seeking college juniors, seniors or graduate students completing their studies in 2020 and are pursuing academic degrees in one of the following preferred majors (or similar background):

    • Management/Computer Information Systems
    • Informatics
    • Information Systems Auditing and Control
    • Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration paired with Information Systems/Information Technology focus
    • Information Technology / Security / Assurance
    • A minimum 3.0 GPA (major and cumulative) is required; 3.2 GPA (major and cumulative) is preferred. A focus on IT auditing, security, and/or specific technologies would be beneficial but is not required.
  • Industry
    Management Consulting
  • Locations
    San Francisco, CA • Chicago, IL
  • About Us

    You may know Crowe as a public accounting firm. While that’s certainly where we started, we’ve evolved to become a modern, future-focused accounting, consulting and technology firm with a fresh approach to client-service and team member happiness. Today, we bring advanced tech into every part of our business, from the fingertips of our diversely talented colleagues, to the screens of our dynamic clients around the globe. Our culture encourages our people to work on their terms, when and how they want, with a focus on delivering exceptional service to our clients.