Job Description




Job Title: Senior Manager - Strategic Assurance and SOC Services for Multiple Openings




Approved Locations: 2001 Market St., Suite 700, Philadelphia, PA 19103




Job Description:



Your day-to-day will include:

• Use technical and leadership skills to oversee the completion of on-budget financial statement audits.


• Support multiple engagement teams concurrently to complete financial statement audits.


• Consistently listen and communicate with clients about engagement and service expectations; resolve technical and service issues quickly and thoroughly.


• Lead a full range of services to clients in accordance with Statement of Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) 18.


• These services include readiness assessments, examination engagements, review engagements, agreed-upon procedures, and compliance attestations primarily focused on system and organization controls (SOC) 1, 2, 2+, and 3.


• Serve as key member of the senior leadership team responsible for developing, improving, and maintaining key operational processes to achieve firm strategies and goals.


• Direct all engagement management efforts to ensure the achievement of client delivery needs and delivery of high-value, client solutions.


• Direct SOC 1, 2, and 3 projects as well as other special attest reports in a wide variety of industries.


• Manage client administration including engagement letters, billings, and budgets.


• Manage SOC engagements and the presentation of SOC reports in compliance with firm and technical requirements.


• Assist clients in applying key frameworks including SOC 1, SOC 2, HITRUST, HIPAA, Sheltered Harbor, and NIST.


• Utilize a disciplined project management approach to manage projects and effectively communicate with team members and clients.


• Evaluate and test client-related business process and information technology controls and identify areas of risk for each.


• Apply current knowledge of information technology trends and systems processes to identify security and risk management issues, as well as other opportunities for overall process improvement.


• Collaborate with assigned team members and client personnel to plan engagement strategy, define objectives, and address technology-related controls risks and issues.


• Participate in the sales process including networking, proposals, and oral presentations.

You have the following technical skills and qualifications:

• Require Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Management Information Systems, a related field, or a foreign equivalent.


• Relevant experience - 5 years of progressively responsible post-baccalaureate experience in job offered or any related assurance/finance/risk consultant job titles.


• Experience must have included: (1) SOC audit experience; (2) Delivering and managing multiple engagements in a public accounting firm; (3) Providing SOC services and leading audit engagement teams; (4) Preparing and reviewing audit working papers and audit reports; (5) Performing IT control and business process audit and business process control reviews; (6) Applying project management skills to effectively manage project status and timelines; (7) Utilizing audit-preparation software including SOC.X and Hyperproof platforms; and (8) working on contract renewal and reviewing fee adjustments.


• CPA, CISA, CISSP, CCSFP or CISM certification required (U.S. or other jurisdiction) required.


• 10% domestic travel to meet with clients or for internal company meetings.


• Must live within a commutable distance to the assigned Grant Thornton Office location to meet 3 days per week work from office requirement.

Compensation for role: $197,800 - $255,904 per year