Manager, Regulatory Affairs

Job Location: Winnipeg Job Category: Non-Profit Job Type: Full-Time How To Apply: Mail, E-mail or

Position: Manager, Regulatory Affairs

Company: The Chartered Professional Accountants of Manitoba

Type: 2 Full Time Hybrid Positions

Location: 1675 –1 Lombard Place, Winnipeg

Imagine a position where YOU play a key role in protecting the public by ensuring members adhere to regulations and the code of professional conduct.

Imagine a position where YOU can bring your superior critical thinking skills to manage and analyze member regulatory obligations as you administer the complaints process.

Add a tight knit, collaborative team, a challenging variety of work, and an excellent work-life balance, and you have imagined a position at The Chartered Professional Accountants of Manitoba.

The Chartered Professional Accountants of Manitoba:

The number ONE responsibility for The Chartered Professional Accountants of Manitoba (CPA Manitoba) is to protect the public by ensuring that all Chartered Professional Accountants operating in the province are ethical, competent, and accountable. CPA Manitoba is a professional regulatory body that represents more than 9,000 CPA members, candidates, and students. CPA Manitoba protects the public interest through the setting and enforcement of rigorous educational, experience, professional and ethical standards as well as providing a fair and efficient way of investigating and adjudicating complaints of members, candidates, students and firms.

Our organization values teamwork, equity and respect, information sharing, continuous feedback, supportive workstyle, and open communication. If you want to work in a culture where your opinion is respected, and where you will have access to stellar learning opportunities, this position is for you. Our employees are top notch. We live and are guided by our values daily. Our workspace and workdays are flexible because we believe in helping our employees maintain a work-life balance.

You will succeed here if you are:

Excellent Communicator – you will be collaborating with not only our internal team but with external legal counsel, executives, members, and your colleagues across Canada. Your verbal style must be confident, reassuring, positive, and clear.

Analytical – you must be able to identify discrepancies, spot relevant details and use investigative skills to obtain and compile all necessary information.

Organized – you are self-motivated and manage your time well and can organize and reorganize your day to meet often conflicting priorities and deadlines.

Leadership skills – you possess leadership skills that you wish to develop.

The Position:

The primary focus of the Manager, Regulatory Affairs is to support the complaint intake process of CPA Manitoba. The Manager will be responding to inquiries from the public, members, firms, and students/candidates regarding the CPA Manitoba Code of Professional Conduct, Bylaws and Policies, and will take the lead role investigating conduct complaints against members of the profession.

The position package includes:

•Excellent salary renumeration depending on experience

•Company RRSP Contributions

•Flex Days

•Hybrid Work environment

•Professional Development Fund

•Vacation and Sick Days

Key Responsibilities Include:

Professional Conduct: Complaints & Investigations

•The complaints process is handled in accordance with The Chartered Professional Accountants Act of Manitoba & CPA Manitoba Bylaws

•Execute and take the lead role pertaining to investigations of complaints against members of the profession. Specific tasks include:

•Reviewing materials and developing investigative plans and budgets;

•Conducting interviews with witnesses and members in accordance with the powers afforded to the investigator under the Chartered Professional Accountants Act of Manitoba and the Bylaws of CPA Manitoba;

•Gathering and managing evidence with an understanding that such information may be subject to disclosure and tendered as evidence before the Discipline Committee;

•Preparing reports and related evidentiary document briefs that will be relied upon by the Complaints Investigation Committee (CIC) in carrying out the mandate of the CIC;

•Appearing before the CIC to speak to the investigation report and answer the queries by the CIC, as required;

•Assisting external legal counsel in drafting charges and preparing for Hearings.

•Manage the administration of complaint tracking system

•Preparation of agenda packages for and coordination of Complaints Investigation Committee (CIC) meetings

•Attend discipline hearings as staff support to legal counsel for CIC

•Recruitment and engagement of committee membership for legislative committees for both CPAs and Public Representatives

•Respond to telephone and written enquiries from the public, members, firms and students/candidates in the following areas: CPA Canada Handbook, CPA Manitoba Code of Professional Conduct, CPA Manitoba Act and Bylaws and Complaint intake process.

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

•Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) Designation considered an asset

•An understanding of, and professional experience in, public accounting

•Diploma in Investigative and Forensic Accounting or Master of Forensic Accounting or Equivalent would be an asset

•Legal education and knowledge of legal and administrative law concepts, principles and terminology would be an asset

•Preference given to candidates who have experience as a forensic accountant with a preference for experience in:

•Executing investigative files independently from the planning stage through completion of a report;

•Preparing investigative reports; and

•Providing expert testimony in a legal environment

•High level of professionalism and demonstrated ability to deal with difficult situations and individuals tactfully

•Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills, with particular emphasis on the ability to use diplomacy when dealing with fellow members and members of the public

•Strong problem solving, analytical, organizational and time management skills

•Proven ability to explain technical material - verbal and written

•Exceptional leadership qualities to mentor and coach team members and potential reports

•Ability to multi-task; manage multiple investigations as well as participate in CPA Manitoba administrative matters

•Management skills to identify, develop, review, and establish efficiencies

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Statement:

CPA Manitoba is committed to working toward fostering an environment that is accessible, diverse, equitable, and inclusive for our members, our employees, and our communities. We encourage applicants from traditionally underrepresented groups to apply. Examples of underrepresented groups include people with disabilities (both visible and invisible), Indigenous peoples, people of colour, women, non-binary individuals, and members of the LGBTQ2S+ community, to name a few.

We thank all applicants for their interest in CPA Manitoba. Please note, only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. CPA Manitoba is committed to the principles of the Accessibility for Manitobans Act (AMA). As such, we strive to make our recruitment, assessment, and selection processes as accessible as possible and provide accommodations as required for applicants with disabilities. If you require an accommodation at any point during the application and hiring process, please contact

How to apply:

Please submit your resume to by April 16, 2024

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