Senior Auditor

Senior Auditor

Company: Audit Services, Emera Inc

Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Hybrid

Closing Date: Until Filled

At Emera, you’ll be part of an inclusive, respectful workplace where everyone is welcomed and supported. Come build a career as unique as you are: making an impact from Atlantic Canada to the world. Your experience and perspective will help Emera to 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.

We are currently looking for a Senior Auditor to join our Audit Services team in a permanent position. Reporting to the Manager, Audit Services, you will work closely with the enterprise-wide audit team where you will execute business process and compliance-based 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 the ways in which they contribute to our organization. Our team uses a risk-based approach, is innovative and will strive to continually improve the quality of our assurance and advisory activities as well as enhance Emera's overall control environment. We encourage our teams to be flexible and open-minded, be critical thinkers that 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 challenge and career growth.

As Senior Auditor your responsibilities will include:

• Execute assurance and advisory engagements and provide governance, risk and control related professional expertise
• Perform risk assessments and develop audit testing programs based on assessment of control and risk environment
• Maintain relationships with affiliate employees, stay informed on risks and strategic initiatives impacting applicable affiliates, and gain consensus regarding potentially contentious or sensitive items
• Identify process improvement and efficiency opportunities in support of the organization’s overall strategy to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in all processes and to build organizational capacity
• Monitor resolution of previous audit issues and provide ongoing consultation on remediation approach
• Ensure Audit Services deliverables follow agreed budget and timelines and are shared with applicable management prior to finalization

What Skills will make you successful?

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

• Undergraduate degree with a concentration in a accounting, business, engineering, technology, or related discipline
• Certifications demonstrating a breadth of knowledge over internal audit, business, or technology (e.g., CPA, CIA, CISA etc.)
• You bring a minimum of three (3) years of direct or related work experience. Previous experience in internal audit or public accounting is an asset.
• Detail oriented, self-motivated, and able to manage multiple priorities
• Understanding of audit concepts and techniques as well as enterprise risk, corporate governance, and process and control design
• Influencing, communication, analytical, and decision-making skills with the ability to work inclusively with various individuals
• Ability to remain focused and deliver results in a rapidly changing, fast-paced environment
• Experience facilitating challenging discussions and providing recommendations
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience with data analytics, previous experience with Arbutus, IDEA or ACL is preferable.
• Working knowledge of IIA Standards

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 on-site and 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 plan and a Defined Contribution Pension Plan.

As one of Atlantic Canada’s largest publicly traded companies, we are ranked one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Top Employers for Young People and Top Diversity Employers. We know our success is driven by our dedicated teams and 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. We support candidates and employees with access and accommodation needs and encourage you to let us know when you require accommodation.

The success of the Emera Company is driven by its people: a strong team with a shared commitment to support the Emera Company mission and values. The purpose of our recruitment policy is to provide a consistent framework to support fair and equitable attraction, hiring, and retention of the best talent for vacant positions. We are dedicated to maintaining a fair hiring process that provides equitable opportunities to all our applicants and is guided by our company values.