Associate, Business Risk
Quincy, MAFull-time$65–106K/yrPosted 1w agoStill listed today
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Job overview
CLA is hiring an Associate for its Business Risk practice to support clients through IT controls testing, internal IT audits, financial audit support, and risk assessments. The role also analyzes technical and business processes, communicates findings and project status, and participates in client meetings and presentations. A bachelor's degree is required, though relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in lieu of a degree.
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Full job description
CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you.
CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other.
About the role: CLA is looking to hire an Associate for our Business Risk practice. Under general direction, this role serves clients by participating in IT general controls testing, running internal IT audits of clients' systems, providing IT support of financial audits, and conducting risk assessments of clients' IT systems.
As an Associate in Business Risk Services, your duties will include:
IT Audit and Risk Management: Report test results to the engagement leader promptly. Participate in the technical examination process, including defining examination scope, evaluating controls, conducting tests, reporting, resolving issues, and assessing risks for assigned examination control/objectives. Assist with risk assessment, examination plans, and other assigned duties.
Process Analysis: Analyze processes and controls related to technical components (e.g. logical access, change management, development life cycle, data management, backup and recovery, incident response, vulnerability management, risk assessment, and physical environment) and business processes that support clients' financial reporting information and systems.
Client Service: Demonstrate curiosity and generate innovative ideas and solutions. Participate in meetings and presentations with clients, identify other CLA services that could benefit clients, and show awareness and understanding of clients' technical environment and business processes. Deliver high-quality client service through positive interactions with clients in various industries.
Project Management/Administrative: Balance assigned work efficiently to keep engagements on schedule. Communicate status of project including issues that need immediate attention to engagement leader. Provide proposal assistance, client engagement economics, or performance metric reporting as needed.
What you will need:
- Bachelor's degree is required. Combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in lieu of degree.
- Field of accounting, business, or management information systems is preferred.
- Additional education in Information Systems preferred.
- 1 year of relevant experience required (prior internship(s) may be acceptable as experience).
- Working to obtain CPA, CISA, CRMA, or CIA certification preferred.
- Experience with ERP, GL, or other accounting software is preferred.
- Network or database system experience such as Oracle, Windows, SQL Server, Unix, or similar is preferred.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook and Office products required (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
Our approach to compensation emphasizes collaboration and career growth. We pay competitive wages and view compensation as an investment in our people. Factors such as geography, experience, education, skills, and knowledge may impact position of pay within the range.
The compensation range for this position in Massachusetts is: $65,000-106,000
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Wellness at CLA To support our CLA family members, we focus on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being and offer comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more.
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How this job compares
Set against the 820 open Risk Analyst jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$65–106K/yr
- Massachusetts median$106–181K/yr20 salary ranges
- US median$91–127K/yr572 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $86K, is 42% below the Massachusetts median midpoint ($146K) — in the lowest quarter of Risk Analyst salary ranges in Massachusetts.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 26 open Risk Analyst jobs in Massachusetts and 820 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Massachusetts
- Lila Sciences2 open
- M&T Bank2 open
- PwC2 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Risk Analyst postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 647 postings).
- Education
- 237 of the 820 open Risk Analyst jobs (29%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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