Grant Thornton Ireland (GT) has over 2,500 people in 9 offices across Ireland, The Isle of Man, Gibraltar, and Bermuda, with a presence in over 130 countries around the world, and a global network of over 62,000 people.

At GT, we work as trusted advisors, bringing local knowledge and national expertise, with a global presence, to help businesses succeed – wherever they are located. We make business more personal by investing in building relationships and empowering our clients to make the right choice for their organisation now and for the future. Whether that is working with the public sector to build thriving communities, with regulators and financial institutions to build trust, or with a diverse range of businesses to help them achieve their goals, Grant Thornton Ireland work hard to support clients to act on the issues that matter. 

At GT Ireland we don’t just predict your future, we build it.  

A Career at GT 

Looking for a more fulfilling role in professional services? One where fresh thinking, collaboration and diversity are valued? At Grant Thornton we do things differently. 

What does this mean for you? 

A career in a more inclusive working environment, a more collaborative work culture, a more supported, flexible working role, more possibilities to grow and more opportunities to help shape the future for your clients. We respect and value your experience. And we want you to bring your authentic self to work and be at your best. It is how it should be. 

Grow with us 

At Grant Thornton, we care about our people and work hard to make you feel valued. If you are looking to deepen and develop your skills, knowledge, and experience throughout your career, then that is what you will get, and more.

The Opportunity

Grant Thornton’s Technology Risk Consulting unit has an opening for an experienced IT Risk Consulting Assistant Manager. This team is rapidly growing and this role provides a rewarding, challenging and fulfilling opportunity with the potential to develop your range of skills significantly.

Everything we do is focused on helping clients through their regulatory change journey across a multitude of areas. Understanding, interpreting and delivering tangible and ‘fit for purpose’ solutions that meet regulatory requirements is paramount to how we support our clients. Our clients look to us for support with what they need to do to meet expectations and we are there to help them through every step of this journey.    

Examples of related regulation that the team is working on currently includes the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and the AI Act. We support clients in these areas through conducting scoping and gap assessments, remediation planning, assurance services and specialised support through our team of subject matter experts. The area of operational resilience, through the implementation of DORA at an EU level, is an area of prominence that is introducing robust practices with an array of transformative requirements in areas such as digital operational resilience testing, incident management and third-party management. If you have worked in this area and have experience in the delivery of DORA, we want to hear from you.

If you enjoy working with a wide-reaching range of clients and be at the forefront of delivery in these areas, that will help businesses flourish, you’ll fit right in.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

As a IT Risk Consulting Manager, you will play a key role in:
 

• Assessing needs and requirements. The ability to interpret requirements from a regulatory perspective and collaborate with stakeholders to translate these into tangible and structured work packages to deliver on. This can include assessing internal business activities at a functional level and understanding the gaps in what is needed to be done to meet regulatory requirements. You will help clients build on their existing ICT infrastructure and overarching business model to adhere to regulatory requirements, whilst also realising operational efficiencies that reduce complexity, foster improved ‘ways of working’ and provide operating model efficiencies.
• Delivering business and IT capabilities. In addition to understanding target business outcomes, comparing these to regulatory requirements and understanding the areas of remediation required to build operational resilience across a firm, our IT Risk Consulting Team can plan and deliver tailored solutions to enhance our client’s ICT capabilities. This is where you will be conducting technical assessments of documentation, controls, risks and processes. Understanding how to approach and bring structure to a programme of work that examines these elements of an organisation’s ICT landscape, to fully understand a client’s capability and develop delivery roadmaps that support a firm in meeting its regulatory obligations.
• Providing advice and guidance. We work closely with leadership teams to provide recommendations and guidance on processes, structures, documentation (policies, frameworks etc.) and systems. For a large-scale regulatory initiative such as DORA for example, you will be providing practical assurance support and guidance to enhance the overall delivery of a client’s programme, using the requisite skills, knowledge and experience including market trends, to support a firm’s implementation of DORA.
• Design and implement framework and policy documentation. You will be designing, developing and implementing frameworks for various clients in alignment with regulatory requirements (including DORA). Understanding an organisation’s operations and linking this to ‘best in class’ examples and market insights, is a core element of this role.
• Continuous improvement of your knowledge and skills. As a team we work very closely together and have internal learning sessions on topical areas that support our collective understanding of specific topics. This supports how we deliver a leading service to our clients and ensures that we all grow and learn on a continuous basis and understand how we can do things better moving forward. Staying updated on industry trends and evolving regulatory standards is imperative to help clients build forward-looking resilience capabilities.

Required Skills/attributes
 

Joining us as an Assistant Manager, IT Risk Consulting, the minimum criteria you’ll need is:

• Analytical skills – strong assessment and analysis skills to analyse an organisation’s ‘current state’ in relation to documentation across areas such as third-party management, ICT risk, operational resilience testing and incident management & reporting. Having a strong ability to document and present recommendations through a structured approach.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills – having the ability to manage and oversee work packages, present at governance meetings and communicate effectively and efficiently on an ongoing basis.  
• Project management – possessing an understanding and proficiency in guiding our clients through the scoping, planning and iterative delivery of initiatives as part of a transformation agenda.
• Market and subject matter expertise – familiarity with regulatory frameworks like DORA, and experience working with operational resilience within the financial services sector is a strong advantage. Our Technology Risk Team are required to have a broad understanding of our clients’ industries and key regulatory topics and the component parts.
• Interpreting and embedding regulatory requirements – having the ability to understand and interpret regulatory requirements such as DORA, to advise clients on what they are required to do to ensure regulatory compliance through a ‘fit for purpose’ approach that supports the firm’s operating model. Possessing a lower-level detailed knowledge in areas such as incident reporting, business continuity, data management and third-party risk is advantageous.  
• Problem-solving skills – being a problem-solver and having the ability to assess a client’s current shortfalls and devise technical solutions to address these issues in a logical manner.
• Communication skills – our technology consultants require strong written and verbal communication skills, since they are required to interact with personnel throughout all levels of our clients’ organisation and frequently work with C-suite leaders.

Life at GT 

Reward and benefits: 

Our reward and benefits are designed to create an environment where our people can flourish. We are committed to building a culture where our people have access to the necessary benefits to help promote a healthy lifestyle and thrive. 

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion:

At Grant Thornton, we provide equitable opportunities for all our colleagues. We are a responsible, sustainable business where equity, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) is at the forefront of our workplace culture agenda, and today, we continue to build and develop on our existing ED&I structure and strategy to meet our workplace culture needs. People are at the heart of our business and teams built with varied backgrounds, racial differences, cultures, sexual orientations, religious orientations, ages, gender identities, abilities and family types present diverse viewpoints, which need to be heard and valued.

We are all at our best when we are able to be ourselves and we view integrity and authenticity as integral values to bring to our day-to-day work-life at the firm. We are excited to see the personality and perspectives you will bring to our team because we know we will all benefit from them. Diversity of thought, background and experience enables better decision-making, improves the quality of our delivery, and helps us to meet the needs of our clients. Our firm is built on people and their ideas, so we want to hear all the new perspectives and fresh thinking you have to offer. You form the bedrock of our firm’s best-practice principles and we will champion you as leaders from day one.

Recognition: 

We want to create a culture of recognition and celebrating success, by saying thank you to people who surpass our expectations and recognising the right values and behaviours. Our Shout Out recognition scheme is our way of highlighting and promoting achievements. Whether you simply want to say thank you, celebrate a special occasion or give an award for doing something exceptional, you can do all of this and more through the scheme. 

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