You want to work in a dynamic, agile, and collaborative team?

You stand out with your interpersonal skills, you listen to your partners and you offer innovative and pragmatic solutions?

You know how to navigate ambiguity, synthesize your ideas, and communicate effectively?

You are autonomous, organized, rigorous, persevering and you know how to use data to support your recommendations?

Working in the Internal Audit team is a unique chance to acquire a general understanding of the Bank’s activities and to work in an environment that allows you to surpass yourself while creating strong relationships with partners from several sectors. It means working in partnership, agility, and transparency, having the power to act and being accountable for the results. It means being part of a dynamic and innovative team where management practices promote a good work-life balance.

Our team independently assesses and advises on the effectiveness of the governance processes, the risk management processes and of internal controls.

Your main challenges:

Maintain a relationship of trust with partners from other sectors.

Coordinate in agile mode, the completion of audit engagements with the assigned auditors and the partners from the 1st and 2nd lines of defense, by exercising a rigorous follow-up of the milestones and regularly reporting progress to involved colleagues and partners.

Consider the use of data analysis as a tool to understand the processes, plan the audit engagement, achieve audit objectives, and communicate audit results.

 Identify the risks that could have a significant impact on the examined processes (efficiency and optimization) and approve the audit strategy.

Analyze the problems encountered, identify the root causes in collaboration with the involved partners and support them in the identification of innovative and realistic solutions to mitigate the risks.

Draft the audit report and present the results of the work carried out to the executives and managers responsible for the processes examined.

In collaboration with the partners, carry out regular and rigorous monitoring of the progress of action plans stemming from the work of Internal Audit and from regulatory authorities, while ensuring the quality of the documentation.

Ensure efficient collaboration with the 2nd lines of defense.

Act as a “coach” or resource person for your colleagues.

Participate in committees or special projects that require a high level of expertise and represent the Bank to various organizations, authorities, or stakeholders.

** As part of its duties, the lead auditor may have to travel from time to time.

Profile:

Bachelor's degree related to the industry and ten (10) years of relevant experience OR Master's degree related to the industry and seven (7) years of relevant experience

Experience in risk management and/or external or internal audit, in an advisory role with senior executives and managers

CPA, CA designation, a strong asset

Comfortable navigating ambiguity and working on several files simultaneously

Demonstrated leadership, ability to ensure effective partnership with stakeholders and ability to influence

Excellent oral and written communication skills, ability to simplify and synthesize information

Agile and results-oriented and ability to work in a team with multidisciplinary experts

Ability to solve complex problems and demonstrate innovation

Ability to analyze data and to draw relevant conclusions

Autonomy, accountability, collaboration, rigor and proactivity

Strong learning ability

Knowledge of Excel and / or knowledge of data analysis / visualization tools (Essbase, Galvanize (ACL), IDEA, Business Objects, SAS), an asset

Knowledge of Office 365 Suite: SharePoint, OneDrive, OneNote, Power BI, Teams, an asset

Bilingualism (spoken / written) French and English, essential

Interested in the position? Apply now!

The Bank has innovated by modernizing its performance evaluation system to better meet our clients’ evolving needs. From now on, the corporate values (expected behaviours) of partnership, agility and empowerment count as much as the business objectives.

Working at National Bank means having access to competitive working conditions, a wide range of employee benefits, a dynamic work environment and telemedicine services.

National Bank values all aspects of diversity and sees it as a tremendous source of wealth. We want to offer an open, respectful work environment where all employees can achieve their full potential. Senior management has made a concrete commitment to promote this value across all sectors of the organization.  We're committed to providing accommodations as needed and ensuring accessibility during the recruitment process and after hiring.  If you have any specific needs, please let us know during our initial conversation and we'll be happy to accommodate you.

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JobField: Finance

Unposting Date: 2022-01-31

Job Number: INT000B2

Posting Date: 2022-01-19