Manager Audit Service - SOx

The Opportunity Manager Audit Services, SOx 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 Manager Audit Services, SOx to join our Audit Services team in a permanent position. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Audit Services, you will work closely with various departments to assess controls, identify risks, and ensure regulatory requirements and internal policies are followed. We at Emera are proud of our Audit Services team and the ways in which they contribute to our organization. Our team has a customer-focused strategy, 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 Manager Audit Services, SOx your responsibilities will include: • Maintain relationships with affiliate employees, stay informed on risks and strategic initiatives impacting applicable affiliates, and gain consensus regarding potentially contentious or sensitive items • Provide oversight of the entire SOX process from planning, scoping, designing controls, and assistance with deficiency remediation efforts as needed • Supervise and mentor team members to ensure quality standards are achieved • Support and create SOX documentation including narratives, flow charts, control descriptions, control testing • Monitor remediation activities • Seek to continuously improve the SOX program to become more efficient and effective through optimization and automation • Ability to understand business risks, challenges and recognize opportunities for process improvements • Establish good relationships and become a trusted resource for business partners to drive maintenance of control and process documentation (policies, procedures, narratives, control matrices, etc.) • Coordinate and work with external auditors • Manage audit resources to complete SOX documentation and testing for the various business processes • Administration of audit software and maintenance of control testing documentation • Help foster a culture of continuous improvement mind-set The successful individual will have excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills and an ability to build consensus across an organization by consistently demonstrating credibility as a subject matter expert. You bring maturity, confidence, and decision-making capability, along with enthusiasm and energy. 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 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.) • Minimum of 6 years of direct or related work experience. Related experience consists of public accounting, internal audit, or financial analysis/processes • Excellent interpersonal skills, including collaboration and relationship development • Ability to analyze ambiguous information and support conclusions • Ability to work independently and collaboratively with a team • Strong oral and written communication • Experience coaching and overseeing the work of others • Experience with SOx or NI-52 compliance • A team player who will work with colleagues and leaders across Emera and its affiliates 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. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Emera 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. Recruitment & Promotion Policy 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr