IT Senior Associate - Asset Manager

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A Career at GT

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Grow with us

At Grant Thornton, we care about our people and work hard to make you feel valued. If you are looking to deepen and develop your skills, knowledge, and experience throughout your career, then that is what you will get, and more.

The Sr. Associate, Asset Manager is responsible for managing IT assets and applications across a global enterprise, ensuring effective governance, lifecycle management, and alignment with firm strategy and policies. This role applies IT Asset Management (ITAM) principles throughout the entire asset lifecycle—from selection to retirement and disposal.

In addition to asset oversight, this role serves as a key point of contact for a suite of technology applications and plays an integral part in application rationalization efforts, helping optimize the firm’s technology portfolio. The ideal candidate combines strategic insight with operational discipline to drive value through data-informed decision-making and proactive planning.

Key Responsibilities

Asset Management

Governance & Demand Management: Lead governance processes and manage the software demand pipeline in partnership with Enterprise Technology (ET).
Lifecycle Management : Define and manage processes across the asset lifecycle—selection, operation, refresh, migration, optimization, retirement, and disposal.
Asset Catalog & Data Quality: Maintain a complete catalog of IT assets and entitlements, ensuring data accuracy at all stages.
Deployment & Reclamation: Coordinate deployment and reclamation efforts with internal stakeholders.
Request Fulfillment: Manage software request intake and fulfillment.
Vendor & SaaS Oversight: Assist in managing vendor portals and software-as-a-service (SaaS) licenses.
Reporting & Compliance: Generate asset management reports and conduct reviews to ensure regulatory compliance.
Risk Mitigation: Support risk and compliance initiatives for hardware and software assets.

Portfolio Management

Business Alignment: Work closely with business partners to ensure application portfolios align with firm capabilities and needs.
Application Stewardship: Act as a key point of contact for a portfolio of applications within the IT inventory.
Documentation & Governance: Maintain up-to-date documentation and steward applications through firm application onboarding processes.
Performance Review: Evaluate application investments and identify redundancies or underutilized assets.
Contract Management: Partner with business owners on current/future application needs and support contract renewals.
Optimization Strategies: Recommend and implement strategies to adapt to changing demand or market environments.
Roadmap Updates: Keep technology roadmaps current based on portfolio changes.

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Technology, or related field (technical degree preferred)
Experience: 3–5 years in IT asset management, portfolio management, or IT demand and lifecycle management
Skills & Competencies:
- In-depth understanding of IT operating models, ITAM principles, and lifecycle planning
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work both independently and collaboratively
- Strong communication, analytical, and planning capabilities
- Proven ability to influence stakeholders and collaborate across business and technical teams
- Familiarity with advisory, audit, and tax industries or professional services operations is a plus
- Experience with tools such as ServiceNow, LeanIX, and Azure DevOps is highly desirable

Certifications (Preferred):
- Certified IT Asset Manager (CITAM)
- Certified Software Asset Manager (CSAM)
- Certified Hardware Asset Management Professional (CHAMP)

Life at GT

Reward and benefits:

Our reward and benefits are designed to create an environment where our people can flourish. We are committed to building a culture where our people have access to the necessary benefits to help promote a healthy lifestyle and thrive.

Equity, diversity and inclusion
At Grant Thornton, we provide equitable opportunities for all our colleagues. We are a responsible, sustainable business where equity, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) is at the forefront of our workplace culture agenda, and today, we continue to build and develop on our existing ED&I structure and strategy to meet our workplace culture needs. People are at the heart of our business and teams built with varied backgrounds, racial differences, cultures, sexual orientations, religious orientations, ages, gender identities, abilities and family types present diverse viewpoints, which need to be heard and valued.

We are all at our best when we are able to be ourselves and we view integrity and authenticity as integral values to bring to our day-to-day work-life at the firm.

We are excited to see the personality and perspectives you will bring to our team because we know we will all benefit from them. Diversity of thought, background and experience enables better decision-making, improves the quality of our delivery, and helps us to meet the needs of our clients. Our firm is built on people and their ideas, so we want to hear all the new perspectives and fresh thinking you have to offer. You form the bedrock of our firm’s best-practice principles and we will champion you as leaders from day one.

Recognition:

We want to create a culture of recognition and celebrating success, by saying thank you to people who surpass our expectations and recognising the right values and behaviours. Our Shout Out recognition scheme is our way of highlighting and promoting achievements. Whether you simply want to say thank you, celebrate a special occasion or give an award for doing something exceptional, you can do all of this and more through the scheme.

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IT Senior Associate - Asset Manager

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