Senior Auditor - IT

Location

Halifax, NS | Canada

Job description

Job Title: Manager Audit Services – IT (Information Technology)

Business Unit: Emera, Internal Audit

Location: Halifax, NS, Hybrid

Type of Employment: Regular, Full Time

Closing Date: March 24, 2024

Reference Number: 2024 - 2462

At Emera, you'll be part of an inclusive, respectful workplace where everyone is welcomed and supported. Build a career as unique as you are: making an impact from Atlantic Canada to the world. Your experience and perspective will help Emera safely deliver cleaner, reliable energy to our customers. 

If working in an innovative environment, challenging yourself, and shaping a cleaner energy future inspires you, we want to hear from you. Apply by March 24, 2024 and tell us what excites you about this role.

We are seeking a Senior Auditor - IT Services, to join our Halifax based, Audit Services team in a permanent position. Reporting to the Director of Audit Services – IT, you will work closely with the enterprise-wide audit team to execute business process and compliance-based IT Assurance & Advisory activities for all Emera affiliates across multiple jurisdictions, including Canada, the Caribbean, and the US.

We at Emera are proud of our Audit Services team and how they contribute to our organization. Our team uses a risk-based approach, is innovative, and strives to continually improve the quality of our assurance and advisory activities and enhance Emera's overall control environment. We encourage our team members to be flexible, open-minded, and critical thinkers who can engage and excite others through new ideas and approaches. As auditors, we value integrity, objectivity, and professional skepticism, recognizing our team's role in maintaining the highest standards of professionalism and ethical conduct. We are a large, diverse, complex organization with multiple business units that will offer challenges and career growth.

• Executing affiliate IT Assurance and Advisory engagements and providing technical expertise in an advisory/consultation capacity.
• Executing SOx IT General Controls testing and/or review of deliverables completed by other auditors.
• Maintaining relationships with affiliate IT teams, staying informed on risks and strategic initiatives impacting applicable affiliates, and working with leadership to gain consensus regarding potentially contentious or sensitive items.
• Identifying process improvement and efficiency opportunities to support the organization's overall strategy to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in all processes and to build organizational capacity.
• Monitoring remediation of previous audit issues and providing ongoing consultation on remediation approaches.
• Ensuring Audit Services' deliverables adhere to agreed budget and timelines and are shared with applicable management before finalizing.

You recognize yourself in most of the following competencies and possess many, if not all, of the skills and experience listed below:

• Undergraduate degree in Management Information Systems, Accounting, or related business discipline. Additional combination of IT-specific audit/risk certifications (e.g., CISA, CISM, CGEIT) and related certifications (e.g., CPA, CIA) will be valued.
• You bring a 3 – 5 years of direct or related audit, IT audit, or IT work experience.
• Understanding of audit concepts and techniques as well as enterprise risk, corporate governance, and process and control design.
• Ability to influence stakeholders through persuasive communication, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to remain focused and deliver results in a dynamic environment.
• Knowledge of current IT frameworks and best practices.
• One or a combination of the following would be considered an asset:
  • Experience executing IT-specific internal audit work.
  • Working knowledge of core IT disciplines and emerging risk areas.
  • Knowledge of the utility industry's technology compliance requirements. (e.g., NERC CIP)
  • Experience with conducting or auditing IT systems development and implementation, data management concepts knowledge, or ERP systems.

We understand that experience comes in many forms, and we're dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team. So, if your experience is close to what we've listed above, please consider applying. 

The perks of joining our team? We offer:

• Flexibility: Hybrid work model with flexible remote workdays.
• Health & Wellbeing: A comprehensive benefits plan, 24/7 access to virtual health care services for you and your family through Dialogue, Employee and Family Assistance Program, parental leave top-up plan and wellness benefits.
• Grow Your Career: Opportunities to advance within and between our affiliate companies, a focus on employee development and available sponsored education programs.
• Community Engagement & Care: Corporate investments in the places where our people live and work, mentoring opportunities, fundraising-matching & volunteer programs, and scholarships for children of employees.
• Competitive Compensation:    A comprehensive benefits plan, short-term incentive plans and a Defined Contribution Pension Plan.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Emera : At Emera we value diversity, equity, and inclusion. We strongly encourage applications from all qualified candidates, including persons who identify as racially visible, Indigenous, persons with disabilities, women in underrepresented roles and members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community. Applicants from these equity groups may self-identify through the online application process. Emera supports candidates and employees with access and accommodation needs.

Recruitment and Promotion Policy: When filling vacant positions, we are determined to hire the best candidates available. We are committed to providing employees with a fair and equal opportunity to compete for jobs. Hiring and promotion of employees is based on skills, capabilities, knowledge and demonstrated abilities.

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