Third Party Risk Intern

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.

About the role

As a Third-Party Risk team member in Crowe’s Consulting Practice, your role will be focused on helping clients identify cybersecurity risks in their vendor population. You will consult with clients to analyze their third-party cybersecurity programs, implement systems to automate third-party management, assess their vendors’ overall cybersecurity posture, and monitor cybersecurity incidents. Our clients rely on our expertise in cybersecurity to identify and help mitigate risk with their vendors and other third parties.

As a consultant on our team, you will work with clients and their third parties to understand data flow, network architecture, cloud configurations, and general best cybersecurity practices. You will be responsible for identifying potential risks to client data and services and providing recommendations on steps to remediate. You will also work with clients to design and implement processes and technologies to better categorize and identify third-party risk within their organization.

Specific projects may include:

• Conducting a Third-Party Technology Risk Assessment
• Performing due diligence on an individual third-party relationship to assess the technology risks
• Performing a site visit to a third-party facility
• Assessing cloud technologies such as Software as a Service (SaaS) hosted applications, Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service deployments (IaaS)
• Coordinating the schedules and assessments for key third-party clients and overseeing all key deliverables
• Delivering high-quality, thorough reports

At Crowe, we empower you to take risks, challenge yourself in specialized areas of consulting and technology, and generate solutions that impact the firm and your professional growth. Crowe cultivates a creative company culture where you will have the opportunity to share your ideas and knowledge with clients from your very first day with the firm.

Responsibilities

• Exhibit strong communication skills when consulting with senior management, C-Suite client personnel, and government regulators.
• Employ robust business writing skills to effectively develop and present deliverables.
• Exhibit strong critical thinking skills to solve complex problems and generate solutions.
• Desire to work in a fast-paced learning environment.
• Adapt to continuously changing risk environments and effectively manage time.
• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity to enable a deeply specialized skill set.
• Cultivate and enable strong relationships within your clients and community.
• Strong ability to learn new skills quickly and the desire to have a career where you are continuously learning.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to think in a systematic, analytical fashion.
• Self-motivated to deliver quality results, take responsibility, and grow.
• Learn and work well both in teams and independently.
• Capable of working in a demanding, deadline-driven environment.
• Entrepreneurial spirit.

Requirements

• Understanding of Cybersecurity frameworks such as NIST, ISO, etc.
• CompTIA Security+ certification is preferred.
• Currently pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in one of the following preferred majors (or comparable major): Information Security, Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or Computer Science.

We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.

Pay

A reasonable estimate of the current range is $27.00 - $42.00 per hour.

Benefits

Your exceptional people experience starts here. At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We care about our people and offer employees a comprehensive total rewards package.

• Career coaching and consistent guidance for career goals and aspirations
• Inclusive culture that values diversity