Senior Associate 1- ERAS

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Responsibilities:

• Provide data analytics, risk management and IT audit support 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. 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 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

• 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

Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in Accounting, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or equivalent level of education

• Minimum of 3 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• CPA, CISA, CIA or other related certification

• 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 Power Automate, 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, UiPath, Tableau, or Power BI

At RSM, we offer a competitive benefits and compensation package for all our people. We offer flexibility in your schedule, empowering you to balance life's demands, while also maintaining your ability to serve clients. Learn more about our total rewards at

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