Senior Consultant & Technology Risk

Ernst & Young Advisory Services Sdn Bhd; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 68,000 - 103,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage

Robust Employee Assistance Program

Generous time off including personal days and vacation days

Job summary

Ernst & Young Advisory Services Sdn Bhd is seeking a Senior to join their Technology Risk team in Ottawa, Canada. This role involves overseeing IT audits, managing engagement teams, and enhancing client information systems to minimize risk. Candidates should have 2-4 years of experience in IT audits and/or risk assessments, a relevant bachelor's degree, and strong communication skills. Benefits include comprehensive medical coverage and generous time off.

Qualifications

• 2 - 4 years of experience in IT audits, risk assessments, or technology evaluations.
• Possessing or working towards relevant accounting/audit designations (e.g. CPA, CISA).
• Ability to obtain Government of Canada Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Manage engagement teams in Technology Risk.
• Lead IT related audit procedures for financial statement audits.
• Maintain relationships with client management.

Skills

IT Auditing

Risk Assessment

Communication Skills

Building Client Relationships

Project Management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Commerce, Computer Science, or Management Information Systems

Tools

MS Office Suite

Data and Analytics Tools (e.g., ACL)

Job description

Opportunity

EY is seeking a Senior, to join our Technology Risk team. This professional will manage engagement teams, as well as directly assist clients in employing information systems, resources, and controls to maximize efficiencies and minimize risk. The successful candidate will also work with client personnel to analyze, evaluate, and enhance information systems facilitating the business internal control process, and will assist clients and other IT professionals in performing information technology (IT) control and security engagements.

Key Responsibilities

• Financial Audit IT Integration – Execution of IT related audit procedures (including IT related procedures beyond ITGCs) in support of financial statement audits and reporting on internal controls over financial reporting (integrated and non-integrated audits)
• Internal Controls Attestations – Focus on providing an opinion on management’s assertion over business processes and controls including IT General Controls.
• Service organization reporting – Focus on the issuance of third-party reports in the form of 3416 reports, SOC 1 & SOC 2 reports, etc.
• Provide high quality professional day-to-day management of internal/external audit engagements/projects and understand EY’s practices and service offerings and identify potential opportunities to improve such service offerings.
• Lead and support the on-site coordination role for audit clients including planning, briefing team on the client's IT environment and industry IT trends, coaching and mentoring staff, communicating with the clients and completing audit engagements.
• Maintain relationships with client management to manage expectations of service, including work products, timing, and the value to be delivered.
• Support preparation of IT external audit reports on the adequacy and effectiveness of control structure, along with practical recommendations to improve the effectiveness, efficiency of a control or process.
• Able to discuss and resolve IT audit issues and recommendations with client management.
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of complex information systems and apply it to client situations.

Skills and Attributes for Success

• Highly professional with ability to work in challenging, diverse and evolving client environments
• Flexible with the ability to learn quickly and leverage skills in new situations
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• The ability to build strong client relationships
• Strong team working skills are essential
• Strong presentation and facilitation skills
• A passion to contribute to the growth of the practice
• Strong experience interacting with clients at all levels including Staff, Leadership and Partners
• Strong written, communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to coach and mentor junior staff on engagements.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 2 - 4 years of experience in IT audits and/or risk assessments and/or technology evaluations;
• Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in Business Administration, Commerce, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or other relevant program required.
• Possessing relevant accounting / audit designation(s) or working towards one (e.g. CPA, CISA, CIA, CISSP, CISM) is required.
• Demonstrated knowledge of COBIT, ITIL, NIST or other IT frameworks would be an asset.
• Experience with data and analytics tools such as ACL; providing IT support to non IT auditors.
• Proficiency using MS Office Suite including Excel, Word, OneNote and PowerPoint
• Ability to obtain Government of Canada Secret clearance
• Willingness to travel

Ideal Qualifications / Additional Experience

• Hands on experience with project management or IT operations based in large enterprise resource planning systems such as SAP, Oracle EBS JDE and SAP or information security would be an asset.

Benefits

The EY benefits package includes comprehensive medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage, mental health benefits, a robust Employee Assistance Program, group savings plans, generous time off including personal days, vacation days and firm‑wide holidays, and the option to purchase extra vacation days. EY also offers exclusive learning programs, internal career development opportunities, and volunteering through EY Ripples.

Salary: Toronto – $68,000 to $102,500.

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