Third Party Risk Senior Consultant

Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here:At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you're trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That's why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.Job Description:What It Means to Be a Consultant at CroweConsulting is a dynamic business focused on solving problems for our clients and serving our core markets through innovative solutions. As technology and AI continue to reshape the consulting landscape, we are looking for individuals who are curious, adaptable, and eager to learn. At Crowe, consultants are expected to build both technical and transferable skills, think critically, and use technology to solve real business problems. In this role, you will continuously learn, collaborate across teams, and explore how tools, including emerging AI capabilities, can improve efficiency, insights, and client outcomes. As you grow, you'll also begin to take ownership of client relationships, contribute to account strategy, and support the delivery of high-impact work. Developing a sense of account leadership, including understanding client needs, ensuring delivery excellence, and building trusted partnerships, is part of what sets successful consultants apart. Success in this role comes from a growth mindset, strong communication skills, advanced critical thinking, and the ability to navigate new challenges with confidence. The Third Party Senior Staff will be primarily responsible for assessing the information security posture of key clients' third parties and coordinating the overall execution and delivery of assessments. The position will work within a Crowe team at a client or third party site and be responsible for leading the effort to identify key risks and information security gaps. Projects would be performed through interacting with the client's IS and Business Unit leadership, as well as the client's vendors, service providers, and partners. Specific projects may include: * Conducting Third Party Risk Assessments by evaluating third party questionnaire responses, performing control validation, and assessment of documentation per established procedures and standards * Performing site visits to third-party facilities * Evaluating the effectiveness of security controls for compliance with applicable policies, security laws, and regulations * Assessing cloud technologies such as Software as a Service (SaaS) hosted applications, Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service deployments (IaaS) * Documenting information security risk and compliance findings and recommendations for remediation * Perform quality assurance and review of assessments performed by other team members * Delivering high quality, thorough reports * Coordinating the schedules and assessments for key third party clients and overseeing all key deliverables Our clients operate in and our team members work across the following industries: * Pharmaceutical * Life Sciences * Biotechnology * Healthcare * Manufacturing * Financial Services * Technology, Media and Telecomm Basic Qualifications: * Bachelor's Degree * Information Technology and/or Cybersecurity background and/or experience, including 2-4 years IT experience with network, platform, and/or application technology * Willingness to obtain the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Infor