Program Manager – Audit Transformation

Recrute Action; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 96,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Office 3 days/week

Job summary

Recrute Action in Toronto is seeking a Transformation Office leader to turn strategic priorities into measurable progress across audit, technology, AI, and global delivery. This role blends portfolio coordination, governance, and executive reporting to drive high-impact initiatives.

You will manage day-to-day operations, align initiatives with the audit strategy and financial plans, and prepare decision-ready materials for senior leadership, Audit Committee, and the board.

Qualifications

• Strong project management fundamentals with milestone tracking.
• Experience governance and status reporting processes.
• Ability to drive decisions and move initiatives forward.
• Excellent organization, coordination, and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the day-to-day operation of the Audit Transformation Office.
• Maintain an integrated portfolio of transformation initiatives with ownership, resourcing, priorities, and timelines.
• Establish governance frameworks, milestones, decision forums, and benefits realization.
• Chair the weekly execution committee with agendas, pre-reads, and decisions.
• Ensure initiatives align with audit strategy and financial plans.
• Recommend pausing or re-sequencing initiatives to protect outcomes.
• Coordinate portfolio-level planning and intake across transformation initiatives.
• Track progress, milestones, risks, dependencies, and capacity.
• Produce leadership reports weekly, monthly, and quarterly on delivery and impacts.
• Prepare concise materials for leadership including the Audit Committee and board-adjacent materials.
• Gather project updates and provide an integrated view of progress and trade-offs.
• Oversee transformation-level financial tracking and benefits realization.
• Partner with Finance to track cost savings and reinvestment capacity.
• Monitor timing, risks, and variances against targets and recommend actions.
• Support AI-enabled delivery of ~34 audit deliverables and related reporting.
• Coordinate reporting for projects moving resources to global delivery.
• Support ~21 projects planned for delivery next year.
• Collaborate with Audit leadership, HR, Finance, and Transformation Offices.
• Translate strategy into execution plans and decision-ready materials.
• Support executive communications and transformation narrative.
• Represent the transformation office in governance and enterprise collaboration.

Skills

Project management

Governance reporting

Decision making

Stakeholder management

Tools

Microsoft 365

SharePoint

Power Automate

Lists

AI tools

Job description

Make an impact in the insurance sector for our client by helping turn strategic transformation priorities into measurable progress. This opportunity combines portfolio coordination, governance, executive reporting, and cross-functional collaboration to support high-impact initiatives across audit, technology, AI, and global delivery.

What is in it for you:

• Salaried: $70-80 per hour.
• Incorporated Business Rate: $85-95 per hour.
• Hybrid work, with 3 days per week in the office.

Responsibilities:

Transformation Office and Governance

• Lead the day-to-day operation of the Audit Transformation Office under the direction of its owner.
• Maintain an integrated portfolio of transformation initiatives, including ownership, resourcing, priorities, dependencies, timelines, risks, and outcomes.
• Establish and continuously improve governance frameworks, execution cadences, milestones, decision forums, performance management, and benefits realization.
• Chair the weekly execution committee, including agendas, pre-reads, discussions, decision documentation, issue resolution, and escalation.
• Ensure initiatives remain aligned with audit strategy, financial plans, and operating model goals.
• Recommend pausing, re-sequencing, or stopping initiatives where necessary to protect outcomes.

Portfolio Management and Reporting

• Coordinate portfolio-level planning and intake across transformation initiatives.
• Track progress, milestones, risks, dependencies, constraints, capacity, actions, and commitments.
• Produce weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting on delivery progress, financial impacts, capability outcomes, risks, and required decisions.
• Prepare concise, decision-ready materials for leadership, including senior leadership, Audit Committee, and board-adjacent materials as required.
• Gather project updates and provide leadership with an integrated view of transformation progress, risks, dependencies, and trade-offs.

Financial and Benefits Management

• Oversee transformation-level financial tracking and benefits realization.
• Partner with Finance and Audit leadership to track cost savings, productivity improvements, and reinvestment capacity.
• Monitor assumptions, timing, risks, and variances against financial targets and recommend corrective actions.

Strategic Initiatives

• Support audit methodology simplification by coordinating activities, tracking progress, and reporting outcomes.
• Support the technology initiative leveraging AI to generate first drafts of approximately 34 audit deliverables, including dependency, progress, and reporting management.
• Coordinate portfolio-level reporting for projects involving the movement of resources into the global delivery model.
• Support approximately 21 projects planned for delivery over the next year.

Stakeholder and Executive Coordination

• Coordinate across Audit leadership, transformation workstream leads, Professional Practices, Finance, HR, and Transformation Offices.
• Translate strategic direction into execution plans and decision-ready materials.
• Support executive engagement, leadership communications, and the transformation narrative.
• Represent the transformation office owner as required in transformation governance, cross-functional initiatives, and enterprise collaboration.

What you will need to succeed:

Required qualifications

• Strong project management fundamentals, including milestone tracking, timeline management, constraint identification, and blocker escalation.
• Experience running standardized governance and status reporting processes.
• Ability to drive decisions and move initiatives forward.
• Strong organization, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Audit or risk management experience.
• Financial services, banking, or insurance industry experience.
• Previous experience within the client organization.
• Experience with Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Power Automate, Lists, and AI tools.
• Portfolio management or coordination experience across multiple projects.
• Progressive project management experience with increasing responsibility.
• Demonstrated success delivering projects and programs.
• Proven ability to deliver complex initiatives from planning through execution.
• Executive communication and influence.
• Governance and decision facilitation.
• Stakeholder management.
• Change and transformation leadership.
• Executive presence and confidence presenting updates to senior leadership (preferred).