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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 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.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze business, risk, compliance, audit, security, and technology processes to identify improvement opportunities.

• Support IT audits, cybersecurity assessments, compliance reviews, technology risk assessments, and control testing.

• Evaluate technology processes such as change management, logical access, IT operations, system security, and related controls.

• Document business, functional, technical, and data requirements based on client needs and project scope.

• Support the design, configuration, prototyping, testing, and implementation of GRC, compliance, financial crime, and risk management technology solutions.

• Assist with system configuration for GRC, fraud, customer risk rating, sanctions screening, audit management, third-party risk management, operational risk management, or other risk/compliance platforms.

• Develop and execute test plans, test scripts, user acceptance testing support, and issue tracking.

• Support automation efforts, including scripts, testing automation, workflow improvements, UI components, reports, dashboards, and documentation.

• Analyze data to support control testing, compliance reviews, system validation, reporting, and client decision-making.

• Prepare client-ready documentation, including requirements, process flows, test results, user guides, training materials, reports, and presentations.

• Collaborate with clients and teammates to translate business problems into technology-enabled, sustainable solutions.

• Continue building technical skills in areas such as GRC platforms, cloud, automation, data analytics, AI-enabled tools, and risk technology.

Expectations:

• Strong interest in technology, risk management, business process improvement, compliance, cybersecurity, automation, data analytics, or systems implementation.

• Technical aptitude and ability to quickly learn new platforms, tools, systems, and technical concepts.

• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and critical thinking skills to develop effective, technology-enabled solutions to address client challenges, including thoughtfully evaluating outputs from new tools and technologies.

• Curiosity and adaptability by learning new tools and technologies, including AI-enabled capabilities, and applying them to help solve problems.

• Ability to translate business needs into requirements, process designs, testing plans, documentation, or technical solutions.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate with both business and technical stakeholders.

• Comfort working in fast-paced, evolving environments with multiple priorities and deadlines.

• Strong attention to detail, organization, and commitment to high-quality work.

• Ability to work both independently and as part of a collaborative team.

• Intellectual curiosity and desire to build specialized skills in risk technology, IT controls, automation, data, cybersecurity, or GRC platforms.

• Entrepreneurial mindset, ownership, and interest in identifying opportunities to improve client outcomes and delivery approaches.

• Ability to build an understanding of how your work contributes to client outcomes and overall business value.

• Willingness to travel based on client and project needs. Travel expectations may vary by team, client, and engagement type.

• Future certification interest to include CPA, CIA, CISA, or other firm-supported credentials aligned to the consultant's area of focus.

Qualifications:

Outstanding academic performance in one of the following preferred majors or comparable fields:

• Computer Science

• Data Analytics

• Information Science

• Information Systems

• Information Technology

• Information Technology Management

• Informatics

• Management Information Systems

• Security Risk Analysis

• IT Risk Management

• Computer Engineering or related engineering fields

• Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, or Operations Management with a technology focus, minor, or double major

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.

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 $27.00 - $42.00 per hour.

Our Benefits:
Your exceptional people experience starts here. At Crowe, we know that great peopleare what makes a great firm. We care about our people and offer employees a comprehensive total rewards package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!

How You Can Grow:
We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!
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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