Reporting to the Emera Director Internal Audit, Information Technology, You will be responsible for leading and executing IT specific Assurance and Advisory activities.
Emera invests in electricity generation, transmission, and distribution as well as gas transmission and utility energy services. The company is focused on transforming the electricity industry through cleaner generation and the delivery of clean energy to market. Headquartered in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Emera has investments throughout northeastern North America and the Caribbean.
Accountabilities:
As the successful candidate, you will work closely with the enterprise-wide internal Audit team. You will lead and execute information technology-based Assurance and Advisory activities for all Emera affiliates.
You are a detail orientated, innovative, and critical thinker with a customer-focused strategy who will strive to continually improve the quality of our assurance and advisory activities, as well as enhance Emera's overall control environment. You are flexible and open-minded, and you can get others engaged and excited by new ideas and approaches; comfortable working in a large, diverse, complex organization with multiple business units; you have excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills and you can build consensus across an organization by consistently demonstrating credibility as a subject matter expert, excellent report writing, presentation, and communication skills; superior business and technical acumen, strong problem solving skills, and the ability to work on multiple projects concurrently; a reputation for honesty, integrity, and high ethical standards. You bring maturity, confidence, and decision making capability, along with enthusiasm, energy and a great sense of humor.
You will be responsible for your own personal safety and that of your co-workers by observing all Occupational Health and Safety Rules and Regulations.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Execute affiliate IT Assurance and Advisory engagements and provide technical expertise in an advisory/consultation capacity.
- Maintain relationships with affiliate IT teams, 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 remediation associated with previous audit issues; provide ongoing consultation on remediation approach.
- Ensure Internal Audit deliverables adhere to agreed budget and timelines, and are socialized with applicable management prior to finalization.
- Manage and review work of team members to ensure quality of information and consistency in presentation to senior leadership.
Skills, Capabilities and Experience:
- Undergraduate degree in Management Information Systems, Accounting or related business discipline, complemented by an IT specific audit/risk certification (e.g. CISA, CISM, CGEIT, etc.).
- Knowledge of audit concepts and techniques as well as a broad understanding of enterprise-risk, corporate governance and process and control design.
- Experience executing IT specific internal audit work within a dynamic, complex organizational structure.
- Minimum of six years of direct or related work experience, including two years in an IT audit or risk and control environment.
- Advanced knowledge of core IT disciplines (e.g. infrastructure, computer operations, middleware, service management, etc.) as well as emerging risk areas (e.g. cloud, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, blockchain etc.). Ability to translate business needs and problems into viable and accepted IT solutions.
- Experience with IT systems development and/or implementation (e.g. application configuration, reporting, interfaces, etc.) as well as knowledge of data management concepts (e.g. database design, data flowcharts, data queries, etc.). Experience with ERP systems (e.g. SAP, Oracle Financials, Peoplesoft, etc.) would be considered an asset.
- Experience facilitating challenging discussions and providing recommendations regarding critical areas of focus.
- Experience providing process improvement and risk-based control design consultation.
- Strong influencing, communication, analytical and decision-making skills with ability to work inclusively with various individuals to achieve shared objective and maintain effective business relationships.
- Ability to work inclusively with various individuals to achieve shared objective and maintain effective business relationships.
- Proven ability to remain focused and deliver results in a rapidly changing and fast-paced environment.
Reports to: Emera Director Internal Audit, Information Technology
Application Requirement: To apply, please go to www.emera.com - click on the Careers link and follow the instructions to APPLY. Complete all required information fields and copy and paste your covering letter and resume into the online form.
Salary: Commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Application Deadline: 29th October, 2018. Late applications may not receive consideration.
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Emera Inc.
1894 Barrington St
Halifax
Nova Scotia CANADA
www.emera.com
