Third Party Risk Intern

Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here:

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.

As a Third-Party Risk team member in Crowe’s Consulting Practice, your role will be focused on helping clients identify cybersecurity risks in their vendor population. You will consult with clients to analyze their third-party cybersecurity programs, implement systems to automate third party management, assess their vendors’ overall cybersecurity posture, and monitor cybersecurity incidents. Our clients rely on our expertise in cybersecurity to identify and help mitigate risk with their vendors and other third parties. As a consultant on our team, you will work with clients and their third parties to understand data flow, network architecture, cloud configurations, and general best cybersecurity practices. You will be responsible for identifying potential risks to client data and services and providing recommendations on steps to remediate. You will also work with clients to design and implement processes and technologies to better categorize and identify third party risk within their organization.  

Specific projects may include:  

• Conducting a Third-Party Technology Risk Assessment  

• Performing due diligence on an individual third-party relationship to assess the technology risks  

• Performing a site visit to a third-party facility  

• Assessing cloud technologies such as Software as a Service (SaaS) hosted applications, Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service deployments (IaaS)  

• Coordinating the schedules and assessments for key third party clients and overseeing all key deliverables  

• Delivering high quality, thorough reports  

  

At Crowe, we empower you to take risks, to challenge yourself in specialized areas of consulting & technology, and to generate solutions that impact the firm and your professional growth. Crowe cultivates a creative company culture where you will have the opportunity to share your ideas and knowledge with clients from your very first day with the firm.  

  

Life Sciences  

Assist our Life Sciences clients to assess and refine their information security posture and privacy capabilities through security testing, program and technology implementations, and cybersecurity consulting services.    

  

Expectations/Responsibilities:  

• Exhibit strong communication skills when consulting with senior management, C-Suite client personnel, and government regulators.  

• Employ robust business writing skills to effectively develop and present deliverables.  

• Exhibit strong critical thinking skills to solve complex problems and generate solutions.  

• Desire to work in a fast-paced learning environment.  

• Adapt to continuously changing risk environments and effectively manage time.  

• Demonstrate intellectual curiosity to enable a deeply specialized skill set.  

• Cultivate and enable strong relationships within your clients and community.  

• Strong ability to learn new skills quickly and the desire to have a career where you are continuously learning  

• Exceptional problem-solving skills with the ability to think in a systematic, analytical fashion   

• Self-motivated to deliver quality results, take responsibility and grow  

• Learn and work well both in teams and independently   

• Capable of working in a demanding, deadline-driven environment  

• Entrepreneurial spirit  

• Understanding of Cybersecurity frameworks such as NIST, ISO, etc.   

• CompTIA Security + certification is preferred  

  

Education:   

Currently pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in one of the following preferred majors (or comparable major).   

• Information Security  

• Computer Information Systems  

• Management Information Systems  

• Computer Science  

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 people are 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 (www.crowe.com) is one of the largest public accounting, consulting and technology firms in the United States. Crowe uses its deep industry expertise to provide audit services to public and private entities while also helping clients reach their goals with tax, advisory, risk and performance services. Crowe is recognized by many organizations as one of the country's best places to work. Crowe serves clients worldwide as an independent member of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory services firms in more than 130 countries around the world.
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