Crowe Horwath LLP is one of the top 10 public accounting and consulting firms in the United States. Under its core purpose of “Building Value with Values^®,” Crowe assists clients in reaching their goals through audit, tax, risk, and consulting services. With 25 offices and more than 2,500 personnel, Crowe is recognized by a number of organizations as one of the country’s best places to work. Crowe serves clients worldwide as the leading independent member of Crowe Horwath International.

At Crowe, we strongly endorse an open door policy.  Our partners are approachable and accessible across the entire organization. Our team-based culture encourages partners to be in touch with our professionals and active on client projects. The partners of our company lead by example and maintain a strong two-way channel of communication with their teams.  We strive to create an environment that is relaxed, fun, dynamic and fulfilling.  Our team-based culture has not only resulted in successful projects, but in long lasting friendships as well.  Overall, our people find their career choices to be highly rewarding and fulfilling.

Crowe Horwath’s Risk Consulting business unit (BU), with over 300 consulting professionals nationwide, offers a comprehensive portfolio of products and services to large domestic and international public and private equity companies. We help companies assess, mitigate and control enterprise risk and improve financial and operational performance by leveraging our Corporate Governance Framework and providing value and thought leadership in the areas of Internal Audit, Sarbanes-Oxley and Compliance consulting, IT Audit, Security and Privacy and Attest services. Risk consulting serves a variety of industries including manufacturing and distribution, diversified financial institutions and banks, energy, business services, technology and healthcare.

This position will be responsible for performing and managing credit risk consulting projects for a variety of clients in the financial institutions industry.  This primarily includes providing loan review services and consulting with clients on credit related matters.  Supervise, train and review the work of other consultants.  Manage key aspects of client service projects from planning to completion.  Become a trusted advisor to client management by providing appropriate recommendations and solutions. Able to make and sustain meaningful client relationships.  Support proposal and business development activities by identifying new target clients, building business relationships with key executives and developing/presenting proposals.

• Bachelors degree in Accounting or Finance, or equivalent combination of education and experience


• 5+ years experience of working in financial institutions


• Management and team leadership is preferred


• Working knowledge as a credit expert


• Active RMA-CRC certification is required


• Direct and deliver significant engagements that deliver value to clients through project management, creation of deliverables and knowledge transfer


• Manages engagement to ensure quality is delivered within budget


• Understanding of business processes, assessing risk environment, and developing a work plan and testing approach


• Thorough knowledge of federal and state banking laws related to credit risk


• Write and present to clients clear and concise reports and presentations containing meaningful recommendations


• National overnight travel up to 80%

Additional skills desired:

• Knowledge of underwriting score cards, behavior score cards, testing sets and response modeling would be a plus


• Public accounting/professional service firm experience with focus on credit consulting in addition to the direct bank experience is a plus


• Graduate degree is a plus

EOE
M/F/D/V