Manager, Audit Services

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The Opportunity

The Manager, Audit Services is responsible for enhancing and protecting Ontario Teachers’ organizational value and reputation, and to improve its operations by providing risk-based, independent, and objective assurance, advice and insight. Their work will inform the Chief Executive Officer and the Audit & Actuarial Committee on the design and effectiveness of established risk management, control, and governance processes. This is a great opportunity to learn the inner workings of our organization and develop big picture thinking.

Who You’ll Work With

As a member of our Audit Services team, you can expect to have significant interactions with all management levels throughout various divisions within Ontario Teachers’.

What You’ll Do

• With limited to moderate guidance from the Senior Manager, Audit Services, plan and coordinate the completion of internal audits as assigned from the annual audit plan, ensuring all audits are executed, documented, communicated and action items agreed within a 12-month period.
• Prepare work plans, programs and resource requirements for their assigned audits.
• Build individual capability to perform data analytics, and propose ways to apply learned skills to improve the quality of assigned audits.
• Conduct reviews and audits by researching emerging practices, examining business processes and related risks, identifying issues and opportunities, and recommending corrective actions.
• Consider and suggest insights and advisory items that can help clients achieve their strategic priorities.
• Prepare and discuss findings with the Senior Manager, and provide regular progress updates to audit clients. Ensure that proposed observations are thoughtful, relevant, constructive, and practical.
• Prepare draft audit reports for the Senior Manager’s review, containing the audit scope, process, findings, and remediation plans as discussed with management through ongoing consultation during the audit.
• Prepare audit documentation in accordance with audit objectives and quality standards for review by the Senior Manager.
• Evaluate internal client responses to audit queries and reports, and advise the Senior Manager as to appropriateness.
• Follow-up on management’s responses to previous assigned audits.
• Build and maintain a sufficient and current understanding of the entire organization and its enterprise-level risks and strategy.
• Assist in advisory engagements from a controls and governance perspective and provide recommendations as appropriate.
• Maintain ongoing contacts and participate in discussions with peers in the auditing community to ensure awareness of developments in audit approaches. Attend appropriate professional development conferences and seminars.
  

What You’ll Need

• Professional designation (e.g. CPA, CIA, or CFA) required.
• Master’s degree in a related field an asset (e.g. MBA, MQF).
• Undergraduate degree in related field: B.Comm, BBA, B.Acc., required.
• 3 – 5 years of auditing and related experience if professional designation holder (experience may have been gained while attaining the designation).
• 7 – 10 years of proven experience if no professional designation or Master’s degree.
• Applied knowledge of audit techniques, including evaluation of internal controls, design of questionnaires, sampling, flow charting, and detailed substantive tests.
• Experience with PowerBI and ACL analytical audit software are desirable.
• Knowledge of the financial services industry with experience through direct employment, external auditing or consulting is preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of investment strategies and investments, including private and public equities, third-party managers, derivatives, credit, and fixed income, is preferred.
• Solid knowledge of various investment related accounting processes, including deal capture, confirmation, settlement, recording and valuation is preferred.
• Good understanding of information technology and system based controls in order to perform select IT auditing procedures in the Investment, Member Services, and Corporate areas.
• Excellent ability to consider and apply a risk-based lens in designing audit plans, discussing matters with audit clients, and arriving at supportable conclusions.
• Ability to gain a strong understanding of complex areas in a relatively short period of time and identify how different areas are interrelated.
  

What We’re Offering

• Pay for performance environment that offers competitive salary and incentives
• Numerous opportunities for professional growth and development
• Comprehensive employer paid benefits coverage, including a Health Spending Account
• Guaranteed retirement income through a defined benefit pension plan
• Competitive time off
• Discount programs including Edvantage and Perkopolis
• Degreed: a digital platform that helps you quickly and easily discover, share, and track ALL kinds of learning resources — from courses to videos to articles and more.
  

At Ontario Teachers’, we are a globally minded organization and take pride ensuring that the people we hire and the culture we create reflects and celebrates diversity of thought, background and experience. Through our Inclusion & Diversity Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) events, celebrations , we offer a variety of opportunities for colleagues to connect for the purposes of professional development and networking & mentoring.

If you require an accommodation for the application, recruitment or interview process, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

How To Apply

Are you ready to pursue new challenges and take your career to the next level? Apply today!

You may be invited to complete a pre-recorded digital interview as part of your application. This portion of your application will take approximately 10 minutes to complete.

We thank you for applying, however, only those selected to continue will be contacted. Note that candidates must be legally entitled to work in the country where this role is located.

Functional Area

Finance

Requisition ID

3552

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