Associate - Governance, Risk & Compliance

BTVK Advisory is a leading advisory firm whose specialized professionals guide clients through an ever-changing business world, helping them win now and anticipate tomorrow. BTVK Advisory, and its affiliated entities, have operations in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. BTVK Advisory s ultimate parent entity, Baker Tilly US, LLP, is an independent member of Baker Tilly International, a worldwide network of independent accounting and business advisory firms in 141 territories, with 43,000 professionals and a combined worldwide revenue of $5.2 billion.

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Responsibilities:

• Support Baker Tilly One Indias third-party risk management program, including vendor onboarding, risk assessments, due diligence reviews, ongoing monitoring, and periodic reassessments.
• Review vendor documentation, including SOC 2 Type II reports, security and privacy policies, architectural diagrams, penetration test reports and detailed ISO reports to identify risks and control gaps with critical suppliers.
• Maintain accurate third-party risk records, documentation, remediation items, approvals and supporting evidence within Baker Tillys Third-Party Risk Management tool.
• Coordinate with key stakeholders to ensure accurate and timely response to client due diligence requests, security questionnaires, RFP and client audit inquiries.
• Maintain and update standard response libraries, supporting documentation, policies, certifications, and evidence used for client due diligence.
• Assist with supporting legal in the review of contracts, master service agreements, vendor agreements, client agreements, data protection agreements, security addendum, and related documents.
• Identify contract language related to information security, privacy, audit rights, data protection, regulatory compliance, breach notification, subcontractors, business continuity, insurance, and third-party obligations.
• Support audit and compliance activities related to frameworks and programs such as SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, HIPAA, CMMC, HITRUST, PCI-DSS, SOX, and other client, regulatory, contractual, or industry-specific compliance programs.
• Work with control owners and performers to monitor control compliance including updating control meta-data, delinquent controls.
• Facilitate external audits through the coordination of audit partners, control owners and performers.
• Prepare status updates, metrics, dashboards, and summaries for management review.
• Maintain risk registers, prioritize and conduct work using Baker Tilly s centralized ticketing platform
• Assist in preparing materials for audit updates, client reviews, and leadership reporting.
• Support the development and maintenance of Cybersecurity Risk policies, procedures, standards, templates, and process documentation.
• Identify opportunities to improve workflow efficiency, evidence management, reporting, and stakeholder communication, and continued use of AI business process tools.
  

Qualifications :

• Bachelor s degree in information technology systems, cybersecurity, risk management, internal audit or a related field required.
• 2 years of experience in a highly functioning team providing third-party risk management, governance, risk and compliance, IT audit, internal audit, or cybersecurity and control assessment work efforts required.
• Familiarity with one or more audit, security, privacy, or compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, HIPAA, CMMC, HITRUST, PCI-DSS, or SOX required.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams using strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to draft clear responses to clients, vendors, auditors, and internal stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, and information requests.
• Ability to analyze documentation, identify risks, and summarize findings clearly.
• Experience using GRC, AI productivity, vendor risk management, audit management, ticketing and workflow tools preferred.
• Experience in responding to client security questionnaires, RFPs, or audit inquiries preferred.
• Experience reviewing vendor documentation such as SOC 1 & 2 reports, ISO certificates, penetration test summaries, business continuity plans, cybersecurity policies, data flow diagrams, or privacy documentation preferred.
• Basic understanding of contract terms related to cybersecurity, privacy, confidentiality, data processing, audit rights, breach notification, and regulatory compliance preferred.
• Familiar with cybersecurity best practices, and basic principles of confidentiality, integrity and availability.
• Certifications such as CISA, CRISC, CISSP, CTPRP or other relevant credentials preferred.