Audit Director - Technology Delivery

Job Title: Audit Director – Technology Delivery for Multiple Openings

Approved Locations: 53 State Street, Floor 16, Boston, MA 02109

Job Description:

Your day-to-day will include:

• Assist engagement teams by delivering existing automations, analytics, and artificial intelligence (collectively referred to as “innovations”) into the audit, advisory, and tax service lines. 

• Develop custom automations, analytics, and artificial intelligence (“innovations”) to support audit, advisory, and tax engagements with an ability to work from needs analysis through development, test, and deployment. 

• Supervise the collection and analysis of data to support audit evidence, detect deficient controls, duplicated efforts, extravagance, fraud, or noncompliance with laws, regulations, and management policies. 

• Consolidate and synthesize data into actionable visualizations and tabular analysis using dashboards and other reports, serving as a data-enabled business advisor to clients.

• Ensure servicing of the client base to make recommendations on business improvements and process improvements as well as, mainly through the delivery of client insights on provided data files. 

• Manage our Microsoft Azure data lake and servers to produce analytic results.

• Collaborate with stakeholders and parties across the Audit Practice and with Information Technology to ensure parties are accountable to project plans and delivery. 

• Manage the maintenance and enhancements of a variety of developed applications.

• Manage client expectations concerning project deliverables and deadlines. 

• Conduct quality review of the work of the team of Associates and Interns, providing formalized feedback and coaching. 

• Develop and oversee classroom training on the delivery and then the application of innovations. 

• Attend professional development networking events and training seminars on a regular basis.

You have the following technical skills and qualifications:

• Requirement – Three or Four Year Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, a related field, or a foreign equivalent.

• Relevant experience – 8 years of progressively responsible experience in job offered or any tax/accounting related job titles.

• Applicants must have experience in the following: (1) Arbutus Software; (2) developing workflows using Alteryx; (3) Microsoft Azure and Power Shell/Automate; (4) ACL Software; (5) Data quality assurance to assess data quality for client-provided data and utilizing data-based tools to improve the efficiency audit evidence gathering/synthesizing processes; (6) Data transformation and Data exploration and insight development (e.g., storytelling construction); (7) Power BI for developing visualizations; (8) Developing materials and delivering training to workshop audiences; and (9) Executing data stewardship and quality control processes including generating and soliciting maintenance enhancement opportunities. 

• CPA or Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA) Certification required (US or other jurisdictions).

• 10% domestic travel required for an in-person meetings, gathering client requirements, conducting inventory or providing onsite support/resolutions for client escalation.

• 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: $155,313 – $165,000 per year