Executive Partner - Chief Audit Executive

About this role: What makes Gartner a GREAT fit for you? When you join Gartner, you’ll be part of a fast-growing team that helps the world become smarter and more connected. We’re the world’s leading research and advisory company, achieving consistent double-digit growth by steering clients toward the right decisions with business and technology insights they can’t find anywhere else. Here you’ll enjoy a collaborative work environment supporting some of the best organizations in the world.

When you join the Gartner Executive Partner for Chief Audit Executive team, you will experience a high-performance work environment within a company that knows no limits. Gartner Executive Partners serve as trusted advisors to our clients, who are Chief Audit Executives from organizations across all industries. This is a brand new product and a very exciting time to join the organization.

Our clients, Chief Audit Executives or the senior-most individuals responsible for Internal Audit, find themselves challenged with the pace of change impacting the Audit function and their respective organizations as companies continue to adapt and shift their business models to move faster and grow their companies in a rapidly evolving risk environment. With the support of their Executive Partner, our Gartner for CAE clients more adeptly align their audit priorities to the organization’s most critical objectives and deliver the assurance needed to help the organization more confidently achieve its objectives and manage risks.

As an Executive Partner, you will have the opportunity to deliver solutions for the most critical audit and oversight challenges facing companies across all industries. Partnering with our clients means that no two days are the same; you could be supporting the development of the overall audit department strategy and long-term vision, providing recommendations on assessing audit department productivity and capacity and creating performance metrics and budgets, advising on the audit function’s effective use of technology (including AI), or helping the CAE increase audit’s impact on the business.

Clients will also look to you for advice and support on working more closely with the Audit Committee and the broader Board, CEO, and the rest of the management team on critical business goals and risks, communicating the value of the audit function, and establishing effective governance and oversight processes. You will support clients as they work to provide assurance over emerging risks to the company and support the Audit Committee in performing their oversight role.

Gartner for CAE EPs serve as accountability partners through delivery of Gartner research insights and personal experiences/expertise on key initiatives, priorities, and strategies of their CAE clients.

What You’ll Do

• Provide executive advisory services to CAE members who work across all industries and business models.
• Synthesize Gartner insights and data to deliver world class advisory support through ongoing bi-weekly client engagement and periodic client working sessions.
• Host, facilitate, and/or participate in periodic client activities, including working sessions to develop strategy, peer roundtables, sessions and client meetings at the annual conference and virtual webinars.
• Define and deliver innovative solutions by assessing client needs and developing a customized value plan in accordance with overall Executive Program strategy and product deliverables.
• Facilitate member interaction and peer collaboration through the Gartner for Audit member community portal and assisted member connections.
• Work as a collaborative Gartner team member serving clients in conjunction with Client Support Professionals and Account Executives.
• Participate in all phases of the client lifecycle: pre-sale, on-boarding, relationship management, delivery, review, and renewal.
• Partnering with Business and Technology Insights (BTI) Analysts to help identify potential gaps in material that is relevant and valuable to our clients.
• Focus on sales enablement in this role.
• Responsible for client retention and for contributing to account growth through direct support of Gartner Sales Associates.

What You’ll Need

• At least 5+ years of experience working as a CAE (or the highest audit role within an organization) and at least 15+ years of experience in areas critical to leading an audit function.
• An in-depth understanding of the Audit function and other adjacent functions, e.g., Compliance, Legal.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office suite of tools to adapt Power Points, leverage Excel Spreadsheets, and to use Word to draft client-ready materials.
• Consulting background a plus.

Who You Are

• Critical thinker and problem solver, demonstrating the ability to assess our clients’ situations and provide actionable, outcome-based business/technical advice.
• Ability to build strategic internal partnerships with key roles across the organization and positively impact change.
• This role is a client-facing position that requires a high level of executive presence and ability to quickly build trust and deliver value.
• Demonstrate superior verbal and written communication skills as well as strong facilitation and presentation skills.
• Excellent communication and relationship management skills.
• Willing to work independently and handle administrative tasks.

What makes Gartner a great place to work?

Our sustained success creates limitless opportunities for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. We have a vast, virtually untapped market potential ahead of us, providing you with an exciting trajectory long into the future. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance. We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients. Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations.

Gartner offers world-class benefits, highly competitive compensation and disproportionate rewards for top performers. In our hybrid work environment, we provide the flexibility and support for you to thrive — working virtually when it’s productive to do so and getting together with colleagues in a vibrant community that is purposeful, engaging and inspiring.