Job Description

Advisory Senior (Internal Audit)

The Cayman Islands is a major international financial centre with global leadership in many areas, including international banking and trust business, international insurance and reinsurance, structured finance, and offshore funds.

Grant Thornton is the fastest growing audit, tax, and advisory firm in the Cayman Islands. We have grown in size by five times over the past five years and have a vibrant and diverse practice, focused on delivering the best quality services to our clients.

Our clients are highly reputable, international financial service entities and service providers within the financial services community.

What does this mean for you?

Gain international experience in a global and dynamic industry that is transferrable to any location in the world and work for a fast-growing firm. Aligned to our rapid growth, excellent opportunities exist for ambitious and driven candidates to progress within the firm.

Why we’re looking for Seniors to join our growing Advisory team:

Our Advisory team continues to grow. As we win new clients and promote within the team, we are looking for an ambitious Advisory Senior to deliver internal audit and compliance projects with us.

About the role:

Our team of professionals are thought leaders, providing personalized engagement and high-quality services to our clients.

When you join our Advisory team, you will work closely with our Partners, Directors, Senior Managers, and Managers to deliver advisory services to our portfolio of financial services clients. In this role your responsibilities will include:

Internal Audit Competencies

• Deep working knowledge of the IIA’s International Professional Practices Framework® (IPPF).
• Complete a detailed risk assessment, including prioritizing key risks and controls
• Use an internal control framework to examine the effectiveness and efficiency of internal controls.
• Determine the objectives, evaluation criteria, and scope of an engagement.
• Prepare an engagement work program
• Apply appropriate sampling techniques.
• Apply appropriate analytical approaches and process mapping techniques.
• Evaluate the relevance, sufficiency, and reliability of potential sources of evidence
• Prepare workpapers and documentation.
• Summarize and develop engagement conclusions
• Formulate recommendations to address root cause of findings and to enhance and protect organizational value
• Prepare a draft audit report

IT Auditor Competencies

• Knowledge and experience of the following IT control frameworks – COBIT and ITIL
• Identify and assess various risks related to IT, information security, and data privacy.
• Experience with testing General IT controls and applications
• Have knowledge and experience of the following security standards – ISO27001, NIST Cyber Security Framework.

General Competencies

• Demonstrate quality engagement communications, including preliminary communication with engagement clients
• Strong project management and organizational skills and an
• Attention to detail in all areas of work
• Ability to establish and maintain effective business relationships with clients, peers and across the organization
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• High level of personal accountability and integrity with the ability to work alone or on a team to achieve objectives
• Work effectively by allocating activities to colleagues
• Review team members’ work for accuracy and completeness
• Write clear, constructive reports and present your findings and recommendations on improving compliance and efficiency
• Other duties may be assigned as required by business needs.

About you:

We are looking for qualified candidates who are required to have 3+ years’ experience conducting internal audits and other risk-based or compliance advisory engagements.

Ideally you will have

• CIA, CRMA or other service line relevant professional certification. Non-certified hires will be required to become certified to be eligible for promotion to manager
• Deep working knowledge of the IIA’s International Professional Practices Framework® (IPPF).
• Strong critical thinking and analytical skills, along with problem-solving skills
• Experience within the Financial Services industry.

You will also have:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for report writing and delivering presentations.
• Strong time management and organizational skills
• The ability to take initiative and to work unsupervised.

Other desirable skills and experience you may have that will support your application are:

• Ability to identify and assess various risks related to information technology, information security, and data privacy.
• Experience with testing General IT controls and applications
• Accountancy (CA / ACA / ACCA / CPA)
• Big 4 experience.

How you will be rewarded:

Our position is offered with a highly competitive compensation package and bonus structure, and further benefits including medical insurance and our company pension.

Our mission is to offer the best advisory and audit services in the Cayman Islands. Having the best teams is where it begins.

The Cayman Islands is a major international financial centre with global leadership in a number of areas, including international banking & trust business, offshore funds, structured finance and of course a world leader in international insurance and reinsurance.

Grant Thornton is the fastest growing audit, tax and advisory firm in the Cayman Islands. We have grown five times in size over the past four years, and have a vibrant and diverse practice, focused on providing the best quality services to our clients.

Our clients consist predominantly of highly reputable and internationally based financial services entities including insurance and reinsurance, hedge and private equity funds, banks & trusts and various other entities and service providers within the financial services community.

What does this mean for you?

You will gain international experience in a global and dynamic industry that is transferrable to any location in the world and work for a fast growth firm that recognizes high performance that will lead to fast-track promotion.