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Job Description:

What It Means to Be a Consultant at Crowe
Consulting 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.

As a Large Bank Internal Audit Senior Consultant on Crowe's Internal Audit team, you will assist our clients with transforming their governance, embedding risk in their decision-making, and maintaining efficient compliance. We will enable an entrepreneurial and innovative environment for you to deliver transformative consulting services and to develop deeply specialized skill sets demanded in today's market.

You will be responsible for:

• Providing risk management and operational internal audit services to clients in the tech, media & entertainment, real estate, oil and gas and life science industries.
• Performing SOX readiness and SOX compliance services.
• Assisting in planning and managing staff on engagements, including reviewing staff work papers and providing feedback and guidance to staff.
• Conducting fieldwork, preparing work papers to support conclusions, discussing findings and observations with management, and preparing written reports of various types and formats.
• Advising clients on how to improve and optimize internal controls, best practices, and helping clients deal with routine issues within the scope of the engagement.
• Providing other value-added recommendations both to our clients and to help improve the firm.
• Communicating audit scope, engagement status, issues, emerging risks, and recommendations through written reports and presentations to appropriate audiences.
• Maintaining consistency and quality in Internal Audit work across the organization, providing guidance and feedback to staff.
• Meeting quality guidelines within the established turnaround time or budget for assigned tasks, ensuring high standards of work.
• Applying solution-based approaches to problem-solving during client engagements and documenting working papers to support conclusions.
• Developing positive relationships with key stakeholders to facilitate open communication regarding pending due dates and questions.
• Balancing competing priorities and managing time effectively to maintain the audit deliverable schedules.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Must have 3-5 years of experience in the areas of operational internal audit, internal controls assessment, and/or SOX 404 evaluation and testing.
• Prior experience should include progressive responsibilities, including supervising and reviewing the work of others, and project management, including self-management of simultaneous workstreams and responsibilities.
• Strong written and verbal communication and comprehension both formally and informally to our clients and our teams, in a variety of formats and settings, including in interviews, meetings, calls, e-mails, reports, process narratives, presentations, etc.
• Internal operational and technology audit planning and execution, including risk assessment experience.
• Internal control design and effectiveness understanding.
• Business process flow and flowcharting.
• Strong understanding of PCAOB requirements, industry best practices, GAAP financial accounting, and SEC Reporting.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, or relevant field required.
• Professional Certification or working toward a CPA or CIA is preferred.
• Experience working with companies in the oil and gas industry a plus.

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.

The application deadline for this role is 12/31/2026.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire. Crowe is not sponsoring for work authorization at this time.

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Crowe, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $73,400.00 - $145,400.00 per year.

Our Benefits:
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More about Crowe:
Crowe provides professional services through two separate entities: Crowe LLP delivers audit and attest services, and Crowe Advisory LLC provides tax, advisory, consulting, and other nonattest services.

The Crowe Global network consists of more than 300 independent accounting and advisory services firms in more than 150 countries around the globe, making it one of the largest accounting networks in the world*. As independent members of Crowe Global, Crowe LLP and Crowe Advisory LLC serve clients worldwide. (*As of July 2026)
Crowe LLP and Crowe Advisory LLC (and their respective subsidiary entities) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetics, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Crowe LLP and Crowe Advisory LLC (and their respective subsidiary entities) does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity or any other third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes or candidates submitted to Crowe, or any employee or owner of Crowe without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered the property of Crowe, and free of charge.

Crowe will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act.

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We are committed to a merit-based hiring process, evaluating all candidates consistently using objective, job-related criteria such as relevant experience, demonstrated skills, measurable impact, and alignment with the role's responsibilities, and making employment decisions in a fair and inclusive manner free from discrimination.

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