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Senior Associate

Cherry Bekaert delivers innovative advisory, assurance, and tax services to clients. At Cherry Bekaert, we create shared success through teamwork, energy, and expertise. We approach today's toughest business challenges with a client-first mindset, working together to create exceptional value. We are all committed to making a difference for our people, our clients, our community, and our professions. To meet this commitment, Cherry Bekaert will provide you with the space to pursue growth and development opportunities that will guide and support you at each stage of your personal and professional journey.

In support of our growing Information Assurance & Cybersecurity Solutions practice, we have an excellent opportunity for candidates with significant CMMC or FedRAMP experience working in a professional services firm or within corporate GRC, IT, Internal Audit, Cybersecurity, or Compliance teams to join us as a Senior Associate with the flexibility to sit in multiple offices throughout our footprint or possibly remote for the right resource consistent with delivery needs. In addition to being an early leader in building our CMMC practice, you will be involved in a variety of other engagements that IA/Cyber team provides, and you will be working significantly across a variety of consulting, governance, readiness assessments, risk management and remediation efforts, and attestation/certifications services for clients with the following areas of focus:

• CMMC
• FedRAMP, StateRAMP, TXRAMP
• NIST (NIST 800-171, NIST 800-53)

What your days look like:

Senior Associates support the delivery of consulting and attestation services. As a Senior Associate you will help understand client needs, perform gap assessments, identify and document control environments, identify design or operating effectiveness gaps, vulnerabilities, audit exceptions, develop recommendations to management, and assist management with policy DocDev and controls implementations. Skill sets desired include the ability to:

• Ensure effective project delivery, including quality control and oversight supervision, assisting with adequate planning, execution, and direction to manage to budget and to quality
• Identify areas to improve project delivery (process improvement)
• Regarding attestation and certification services delivery, support the development of strong work papers in conformance with the firm's methodology/standards and participation in report drafting
• Maintain a strong client focus by understanding the client's business needs while developing productive working relationships with client personnel to accomplish project objectives
• Multi-task across multiple clients and compliance standards, while still maintaining appropriate attention to detail
• Work with (lead, teach, support, and communicate) offshore resources to deliver projects where practical and where available
• Utilize your experiences to teach others in the practice on new approaches, execution strategies, compliance standards, etc.

What you need for this role:

• Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Information Security, Information Systems, Computer Science, Cybersecurity or Accounting
• Relevant professional certification (CMMC CCA or passed CCA with pending background)
• Minimum 2+ years of experience with controls assessments or consulting externally or leading internal controls implementation and/or SSP DocDev or attestation services for CMMC or FedRAMP
• Willingness to learn and deliver, in a consulting and attestation services model, on compliance standards that you may have little to no experience with
• Outstanding relationship management, written and verbal communication, as well as presentation skills
• Ability to travel to client sites as need, not expected to exceed 25%

What you can expect from us:

• Our shared values that foster inclusion and belonging including uncompromising integrity, collaboration, trust, and mutual respect
• The opportunity to innovate and do work that motivates and engages you
• A collaborative environment focused on enabling you to further your career growth and continuous professional development
• Competitive compensation and a total rewards package that focuses on all aspects of your wellbeing
• Flexibility to do impactful work and the time to enjoy your life outside of work
• Opportunities to connect and learn from professionals from different backgrounds and with different cultures

Benefits Information:

Cherry Bekaert cares about our people. We offer competitive compensation packages based on performance that recognize the value our people bring to our clients and our Firm. The salary range for this position is included below. Individual salaries within this range are determined by a variety of factors including but not limited to the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate's work experience, education, knowledge, skills, and geographic location. In addition, we offer a comprehensive, high-quality benefits program which includes annual bonus, medical, dental, and vision care; disability and life insurance; generous Paid Time Off; retirement plans; Paid Care Leave; and other programs that are dedicated to enhancing your personal and work life and providing you and your family with a measure of financial protection.

Pay Range: $89,993 - $140,300

About Cherry Bekaert:

Cherry Bekaert, ranked among the largest assurance, tax and advisory firms in the U.S., serves clients across industries in all 50 U.S. states and internationally. For more details, visit

Cherry Bekaert provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Further information regarding the firm's compliance with federal, state and local recruitment and hiring laws can be found at