Senior Advisory Specialist - Professional Services

1 Day ago • 5-7 Years

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Advisory Specialist is responsible for delivering solutions related to managed services requests, collaborating with internal teams, and serving as an expert in Diligent solutions. Key responsibilities include leading engagements, assisting in the customer lifecycle, providing guidance on best practices, driving successful adoption, performing quality assurance, developing expertise, identifying specialty areas, mentoring, and supporting business development activities. The role requires a customer-first mindset, attention to detail, time management skills, problem-solving abilities, and the capacity to work in a fast-paced environment to deliver excellent results to customers.
Must have:
  • 5-7 years of client-facing or consulting experience.
  • Customer-first mindset focused on outcomes.
  • High-quality work ethic with attention to detail.
  • Effective time management and organizational skills.
  • Willingness to problem-solve and embrace challenges.
  • Ability to work in a team under tight deadlines.
  • Passionate about GRC (governance, audit, compliance, etc.).
  • Excellent communication skills for presentations.
  • Ability to engage customers in solution discussions.
  • Relevant Professional GRC accreditation.
Good to have:
  • Effectively communicate timelines and manage expectations.
  • Understand Adoption Manager reporting needs.
  • Ability to understand and interpret solution design plans.
  • Utilizes a problem-focused and specific mentality.
Perks:
  • Creativity is ingrained in our culture.
  • Flexible work environment.
  • Global days of service.
  • Comprehensive health benefits.
  • Meeting free days.
  • Generous time off policy and wellness programs.
  • Teams all over the world.
  • Growing, maintaining, and promoting a diverse team.

Job Details

About Us

Diligent is the global leader in modern governance, providing SaaS solutions across governance, risk, compliance, audit and ESG. Empowering more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members and leaders with a holistic view of their organization’s GRC practices so they can make better decisions, faster. No matter the challenge.

At Diligent, you are an agent of positive change. You are joining a team of passionate, smart, creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place. Be a part of a global community on a mission to make a real impact.

Learn more at diligent.com.

Position Overview:  

You are intense about technology and exceed all expectations with your clients, from deadlines to deliverables. This position is responsible for executing and delivering solutions related managed services requests from customers. This role is expected to be an expert in the Diligent solutions and collaborate with internal teams to get the job done.  

Key Responsibilities  

  • Lead engagements independently or with a team and coordinate task allocation. Continue to deliver Professional Services over the course of the entire customer journey and/or product enablement lifecycle. 
  • Assist PS management, CS team, and other internal stakeholders (where relevant and appropriate) in the different stages of the customer lifecycle. 
  • Leverage Domain, Industry and Product expertise to provide guidance to customers on best practices regarding solution rollout and project execution. 
  • Utilize experience to drive successful adoption and reduce associated risks through the delivery of Professional Services. 
  • Perform Quality Assurance of delivery work performed by Advisory Specialists I and II. 
  • Continue to develop Domain and Product expertise to provide guidance to customers on best practices for solution rollout and project execution through continuous learning and personal development. 
  • Identify specialty areas of Domain and/or Product to become a Subject Matter Expert (SME) and prioritize learning and development of those areas. 
  • Act as a mentor for Data Specialist and Advisory Specialist roles, including being a “buddy” for new hires when assigned. 
  • Support senior management on potential Business Development activities (Discovery Calls, RFP Response, SOW generation). 

Required Experience/Skills  

  • 5-7 years of experience in an internal or external client-facing or consulting role.
  • Embody Customer First mindset in all undertakings, operating with urgency, excellence, and accountability to customer outcomes and experiences. 
  • Maintains a consistently high-quality level of work ethic including attention to detail, accuracy, and following processes and procedures with stakeholders and customers. 
  • Demonstrate effective time management and organization skills and ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
  • Shows a willingness to problem-solve and take on new challenges.
  • Ability to work as part of a team to deliver in tight timeframes and respond quickly in a constantly changing environment.
  • Passionate about GRC (i.e. governance, audit, compliance, internal controls, information security, ESG and/or risk management, etc)
  • Excellent communication skills–including delivery of presentations or workshop.
  • Ability to effectively engage customer personnel in solution discussions to resolve issues regarding GRC requirements and goals.
  • Relevant Professional GRC accreditation (planned, in progress, or obtained) (e.g., CIA, CA, CGA, CMA, CPA, CFE, CISA, CRISC, CISSP etc.).

Preferred Experience/Skills  

  • Effectively communicate timelines and manage expectations with the customer and internal stakeholders as they align with the project plan. 
  • Understand Adoption Manager (AM) reporting needs for forecasting and budget tracking. Partner with AMs to ensure projects are delivered within budget and fully (all scoped activities). 
  • Ability to understand and interpret solution design plans enabling delivery of activities and milestones detailed in the plans 
  • Utilizes a problem-focused and specific mentality to provide constructive feedback to team members. 

What Diligent Offers You 

  • Creativity is ingrained in our culture. We are innovative collaborators by nature. We thrive in exploring how things can be differently both in our internal processes and to help our clients
  • We care about our people. Diligent offers a flexible work environment, global days of service, comprehensive health benefits, meeting free days, generous time off policy and wellness programs to name a few
  • We have teams all over the world. We may be headquartered in New York City, but we have office hubs in Washington D.C., Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Sydney.
  • Diversity is important to us. Growing, maintaining and promoting a diverse team is a top priority for us. We foster and encourage diversity through our Employee Resource Groups and provide access to resources and education to support the education of our team, facilitate dialogue, and foster understanding.

Diligent created the modern governance movement. Our world-changing idea is to empower leaders with the technology, insights and connections they need to drive greater impact and accountability – to lead with purpose. Our employees are passionate, smart, and creative people who not only want to help build the software company of the future, but who want to make the world a more sustainable, equitable and better place. 

Headquartered in New York, Diligent has offices in Washington D.C., Baltimore, London, Galway, Budapest, Vancouver, Bengaluru, Munich, and Sydney. 

 

We are a drug free workplace. Diligent is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, physical disability, mental disability, age, military status, protected veteran status, marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer related or HIV/AIDS related), genetic information, or sexual orientation in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Diligent's EEO Policy and Know Your Rights. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at recruitment@diligent.com.

To all recruitment agencies: Diligent does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, Diligent employees or any other organization location. Diligent is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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