Manager Internal Audit, Investments – Omers

Job Title: Manager Internal Audit, Investments

Location: Toronto, ON

Job Description: Choose a workplace that empowers your impact.Join a global workplace where employees thrive. One that embraces diversity of thought, expertise and experience. A place where you can personalize your employee journey to be — and deliver — your best.We are a purpose-driven, dynamic and sustainable pension plan. An industry leading global investor with teams in Toronto to London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and other major cities across North America and Europe. We embody the values of our 600,000+ members, placing their best interests at the heart of everything we do.Join us to accelerate your growth & development, prioritize wellness, build connections, support the communities we live and work.Don’t just work anywhere — come build tomorrow together with us.Know someone at OMERS or Oxford Properties? Great! If you’re referred, have them submit your name through Workday first. Then, watch for a unique link in your email to apply.Reporting into the Director of Internal Audit responsible for Investment Business Units, you will be leading assurance and consulting engagements pertaining to Capital Markets, Infrastructure, Private Equity and associated risk management and investment operations functions. You will manage end-to-end processes including planning, fieldwork, reporting and issues closure.Key Responsibilities:

• Engagement Management: Plan and manage the completion of engagements, ensuring all engagement are executed, documented and communicated in a timely manner;
• Client Liaison: Maintain regular communication with internal clients during engagements to keep them informed of progress and outcomes.
• Action Plans: Develop thoughtful, relevant, and constructive action plans addressing root causes of identified issues and present findings to key stakeholders.
• Reporting: Prepare and present audit findings and recommendations to the Director and business unit management during audits.
• Follow-Up: Monitor and follow up on management’s remediation plans in a timely manner.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Develop effective partnerships with key stakeholders across the organization.
• Risk Awareness: Maintain a current understanding of the organization and emerging risks to provide meaningful input during annual audit plan preparation and protect the interests of the organization by maintaining awareness of emerging risks and issues and regulatory requirements to assess potential impacts on the business.
• Consultation: Participate/consult on business initiatives to provide real-time proactive feedback from a controls and governance perspective, providing recommendations as appropriate.
• Continuous Improvement: Contribute to team initiatives for continuous improvement, including methodology updates and execution of strategic initiatives.

Competencies:

• Demonstrate integrity, ethical behavior, and a commitment to maintaining high standards of professional conduct.
• Deliver high-quality audit work within established timelines. Persist despite obstacles and setbacks to maintain high levels of performance.
• Understand the organizational environment and adapt to fast-changing priorities while remaining focused on the organization’s purpose and priorities.
• Strong interpersonal and social problem-solving skills. Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Exhibit leadership qualities by taking ownership and accountability for activities, decisions, and outcomes.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience working in an external (assurance or consulting) or internal audit capacity.
• Strong knowledge of Capital Markets, Investments or related risk management, investment operations functions; CFA is preferred.
• Strong analytical, problem solving and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to gain a strong understanding of new sophisticated areas in a relatively short period of time; Expertise in data analytics is a plus.
• Excellent verbal, written and visual communication skills. Strong deck building skills is great to have.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, establishing priorities and managing concurrent deliverables.

As one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension plans, our people-first culture is at its best when our workforce reflects the communities we live and work — and the members we proudly serve.From hire to retire, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process that extends all the way through your employee experience. This sense of belonging and connection is cultivated up, down and across our global organization thanks to our vast network of Employee Resource Groups with executive leader sponsorship, our Purpose@Work committee and employee recognition programs.

Company Name: Omers

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