Defense & Security, IT Risk and Controls Consultant

Job Family:
IT Risk & Controls Consulting

Travel Required:
Up to 10%

Clearance Required:
Ability to Obtain Public Trust

What You Will Do :

Our professionals help our clients to identify, evaluate, and solve some of their most complex challenges, assisting them in achieving their strategic goals and objectives to fulfill their mission. We help our clients transform their business processes, improve efficiency of operations, evaluate and improve internal controls, strengthen policies and controls, increase transparency and performance management, and comply with Federal laws and regulations.


The nature of our projects can be fluid and requires self-motivated individuals that are willing to develop solutions on their own or in a team of highly skilled professionals. Project team members are provided the opportunity to interact with our clients' senior management, as well as the opportunity to enhance their skills in the area of technical competency, business development, client service, leadership, project management, and people development.

The IT Risk and Controls Consultant will support stakeholder engagement and technical delivery for efforts supporting client organizations with IT controls audit/assessments, remediation, and other related support. The client is responsible for coordinating and monitoring internal controls for the organization, including performing assessments in accordance with OMB Circular A-123, the FISCAM, and assisting other program offices with remediation and other related internal controls tasks. This is an ideal role for someone with an IT audit background who is looking to utilize their skills to support clients internally as a consultant rather than as an external auditor.

The IT Risk and Controls Consultant will have a role in working directly with clients and other organizational stakeholders to support IT internal control efforts, including audits/assessments, remediation, and other ad-hoc efforts.

This role will support a Government agency within the homeland security enterprise with opportunities to expand your support to other national security-related organizations.


Day-to-day tasks include some or all of the following:

• Performing rigorous audits/assessments of IT controls using industry-standard guidance and leading practices
  
• Performing walkthrough interviews and maintaining communication with a variety of client stakeholders, including system personnel such as system and database administrators
  
• Requesting, obtaining, reviewing, and analyzing a variety of artifacts to assist in executing IT controls testing such as security plans, SOPs, system screenshots, and system configuration settings
  
• Evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of IT controls using provided artifacts, industry-standard guidance, leading practices, and professional judgment
  
• Professionally documenting the results of IT controls test work in a consistent and high-quality manner that would allow a reviewer to repeat the test and reach the same conclusion
  
• Summarizing and communicating IT controls assessment results to a variety of client stakeholders, including senior leadership personnel
  
• Planning and executing day-to-day activities of IT controls assessments individually and for the team
  
• Working with client personnel to understand and analyze known IT control weaknesses, identify root causes, and develop detailed, robust remediation plans
  
• Providing subject matter expertise to client personnel on all matters relating to IT controls and responding to ad-hoc IT controls requests from client personnel
  
• Developing documents to support internal control assessment planning decisions and control identification
  
• Supporting the development of corrective action plans to resolve material weaknesses, significant deficiencies, and control deficiencies
  
• Reviewing financial system modernization production environment functionality and application controls to provide input regarding audit readiness.
  
• Assessing incremental financial system modernization efforts as well as in-production and in-development environments with regards to audit readiness and future risks
  
  
• Preparing presentations, briefing materials, standard operating procedures, frequently asked questions, guides, and white papers that effectively support organizational efforts to promote awareness and understanding of OMB A-123 and internal controls
  

What You Will Need:

• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DoD "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication of their PUBLIC TRUST prior to onboarding with Guidehouse. Candidates with an ACTIVE PUBLIC TRUST or SUITABILITY are preferred.
  
• Bachelor's Degree
  
• TWO (2) or more year' experience in IT controls, audit, assessment, AND/OR remediation
  

What Would Be Nice To Have:

• Master's Degree
  
• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) certification
  
• Demonstrates knowledge and experience in IT risk and controls through IT audits, IT control assessments, and IT security reviews. Demonstrates a working knowledge of IT audit, the FISCAM, and other relevant federal information assurance laws, regulations, and guidance.
  
• Experience supporting an internal control program
  
• Experience performing IT audits, OMB Circular A-123 or similar internal control assessments, and/or remediating and implementing IT controls is preferable. Experience testing or remediating some or all of the following IT controls topic areas is preferable:
  
• Access and account management, including authorization, provisioning, recertification, and separation
  
• Segregation of duties, including identifying and defining segregation of duties risks and conflicts, preventive and detective segregation of duties controls, and understanding the difference between segregation of duties and least privilege
  
• Technical account management controls, such as password length, complexity, and expiration
  
• Audit logging and monitoring, including generation of audit logs, use of audit log aggregation and analysis tools, and audit log monitoring and review
  
• Configuration management, including configuration baseline concepts, baseline deviations, baseline maintenance, monitoring for ongoing compliance with a baseline, and industry-accepted baselines such as DISA STIGs and CIS benchmarks
  
• Change management, including authorization, development, testing, and deployment of changes
  
• Contingency planning, including backups, testing of backups, and alternate site
  

What We Offer:

Guidehouse offers a comprehensive, total rewards package that includes competitive compensation and a flexible benefits package that reflects our commitment to creating a diverse and supportive workplace.

Benefits include:

• Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
  
• Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
  
• Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
  
• Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance
  
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
  
• Basic Life & Supplemental Life
  
• Health Savings Account, Dental/Vision & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
  
• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
  
• Student Loan PayDown
  
• Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development & Learning Opportunities
  
• Skills Development & Certifications
  
• Employee Referral Program
  
• Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
  
• Emergency Back-Up Childcare Program
  
• Mobility Stipend
  

About Guidehouse

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