Senior Financial Advisor- Internal Controls

Job Description

About the Company
Our client is a large electricity transmission and distribution service provider. They are looking for a Senior Financial Advisor- Internal Controls to join their team!

Why Work Here

• Hybrid work environment
• Work-life balance
• Opportunities for growth and development
• Pension plan
• Employee Share Ownership Plan (ESOP)

About the Opportunity

• 60% of this role: Support the Corporate Finance's objective of maintaining effective internal control in financial and accounting processes, financial systems and financial and non-financial internal and external reporting.
• 40% of this role: This role will also lead company's non-financial disclosure compliance program, ensuring that public disclosure of non-financial information is produced with the level of due diligence consistent with financial reporting. The Advisor will coordinate with data owners and data preparers across business units to advise on disclosure activities, which will support the reporting teams in meeting disclosure requirements and timelines.
• Program execution end-to-end, the candidate will act in its governance role to facilitate and liaise with lines of business to obtain and validate supporting documentation.
• Provide guidance on matters related to Internal Controls with includes NI 52-109 (CSOX) and SOX, including ensuring effectiveness of disclosure controls and procedures around both financial and non-financial disclosures and the ability of senior executives to certify the financial statements.
• Support special internal control studies and cross functional teams and develop recommendations.
• Assist in the development and adoption of Internal Controls over Financial Reporting( ICFR) best practices and delivering training to process/controls owners
• Work with business and IT process/control owners to ensure quality, consistency, and operability of new and existing controls.
• Support control owners in ensuring segregation of duties exist for access roles.
• Make recommendations for continuous improvements.
• Assist process/control owners remediate control deficiencies where needed.
• Plan deliverables and co-dependencies, anticipate issues, and provide the necessary tools and communications to enable the success of all process owners responsible for ICFR.
• Work closely with process/control owners to perform a risk assessment and scope processes and controls in support of internal control certification.
• Work with Manager to facilitate optimal outcomes in support of internal and external audits.
• Assist manager in establishing measures to demonstrate opportunities to continually improve our risk, control and security posture, all with the view of preparing the Organization to be SOX 404 compliant.

About You

• CPA, CA
• Expertise in NI 52-109 (CSOX)/ Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance
• Familiar with COSO internal control framework
• Certification in disciplines related to governance, project management and/or process controls, data analytics/science are an asset.
• Requires ability to effectively communicate with all levels of management and staff orally, written and using communication tools.
• Requires excellent interpersonal, collaboration and facilitation skills to deal with multiple stakeholders across the company to provide advice and guidance to resolve controversial issues or build consensus.
• Requires project management skills.
• Requires sound judgment and accurate analysis of issues impacting on the Company in order to prepare analyses and commentary.
• Knowledge of the electric utility business and rate regulated industry would be highly beneficial.
• Knowledge of SAP, MS, Access, Visio, VBA and Risk Analysis software, databases, excel, PowerPoint.
• Analytical Thinking - ability to understand a situation by segmenting and tracing implications step by step.
• Team Leadership - ability to take a role as leader of a team or other group.

Salary Range
$95,000 - $105,000 / year

How to Apply
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You must currently reside within the Greater Toronto Area and be permitted to work in Canada to be considered for this opportunity. A recruiter will be in touch with you if your profile meets our client's requirements for this role.
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