Data Risk & Automation Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provide data analytics, risk management and IT audit subject matter expertise during business development pursuits; e.g. proposals, cost build-ups, sales meetings
• Identify, prioritize and execute on high-value opportunities to improve data risk services methodologies; including developing and delivering training, whitepapers, and desktop procedures for best-practice evaluation methods by business application (prioritization on Oracle Fusion, SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft D365, Workday, NetSuite and other tier 1 business applications
• Identify and prioritize high-value opportunities to improve audit and compliance processes through analytics and automation, particularly in areas unique to Data GRC (e.g., metadata management, master data management, data lineage capture and mapping, risk and controls design and testing, upstream and downstream data quality and accuracy validations, etc.)
• Responsible for developing and implementing data analytics solutions, including creating dashboards and reports. This role requires technical expertise to directly build and manage analytics, not just overseeing a team or performing high-level QA. The specialist will actively engage in data analysis, build visualizations, and provide actionable insights to support decision-making.
• Upskill and train more junior staff on best practices and approach to data and risk management, including risk management and internal audit basics, analytics and automation.
• Responsible for execution and review and approval of all work-papers and deliverables, including reporting to client stakeholders.
• Provide guidance to other internal and external stakeholders (clients, industry events, market events, etc.) on related data risk, analytics best practices
• Facilitate sessions with internal and external personnel to effectively design methodology that: a) help audit/compliance professionals learn more about the business in order to better focus attention on the areas of highest risk, and b) identify issues and potential process exceptions
• Manage communication with IT and/or business resources to locate internal and external data for analysis, understand data, and make data requests or direct connections to databases
• Champion sustainable data risk, analytics and automation design concepts
• Manage the development of visualization, dashboards and scripts, using agile development methodology
• Perform quality assurance over developer practices for data mapping, data transformations, data joining/blending, data quality, data cleansing, and other data movement related activities
• Provide guidance to both internal and external stakeholders on interpreting analytic results
• Coordinate data risk services with off-shore resources at the RSM Delivery Center in India
• Assist with university/campus outreach and recruiting
• Be an active participant in local employee network groups and build relationships with RSM members across all lines of business and consulting as representing practice services and capabilities

Position Requirements:

• Experience managing a team of 3 8 individuals providing services to numerous clients simultaneously
• Project and program management expertise and strong written and verbal communication skills
• Detail-oriented with a pro-active, inquisitive and creative approach to work, preferred to be analytics and technology inclined
• Experience as an auditor or supporting internal or external audit teams with fundamental understanding of enterprise risk management and compliance and/or best practice frameworks sch as COSO, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), COBIT, etc.
• Understanding basic accounting, operations and auditing concepts and reporting skills, including documentation requirements
• Understanding and ability to describe the flow of typical business processes, covering the purchase-to-pay, order-to-cash, and record-to-report cycles, at a minimum.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in Accounting, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or equivalent level of education
• Minimum of 6 years in IT audit and/or compliance with expertise in key reporting testing and experience in testing IT application controls, business process controls, and IT general controls
• Minimum of 3 years experience in technical analytics using analytics and cleansing tools such as Alteryx.
• Minimum of 3 years in public accounting in audit or risk advisory services capacity
• CPA, CISA, or CIA

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with data analytics of large ERP applications such as MS D365, SAP, Oracle, NetSuite and Workday.
• Hands-on experience using audit-focused GRC technologies such as AuditBoard, ServiceNow, TeamMate, Idea, and WDesk.
• Experience using other industry standard data analysis technologies such as Alteryx, SAS, SQL, and/or Python
• Experience developing and/or managing dashboard solutions created using Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, or similar technologies
• Experience with process mining using tools like Celonis or ABBYY Timeline
• Experience working with automations software such as Automation Anywhere and UiPath.
• Experience working with data from cloud-based applications like Workday, NetSuite, Salesforce, Concur is a plus
• Business development experience is a plus
• Certifications in one or more data analysis technologies such as Alteryx, Tableau, or Power BI

Standards of Performance:

• Data stewardship - Maintain confidentiality, integrity and availability of information with your custody
• A self-starter with a process improvement mentality who is hands on, results-oriented, and leads by example
• A strong entrepreneurial spirit with the highest levels of professional and personal honestly, integrity and ethics
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to prioritize multiple tasks, projects and assignments
• Ability to interact with all levels of client staff, including executives and senior managers
• Possess strong business ethics and willingness to adhere to stringent professional standards
• Ability to put forth additional effort to meet deadlines when necessary
• Ability to travel to local client sites and/or the local office at least 3 days per week
• Ability to travel out-of-town as need for client and other meetings (up to 20%)