Manager, Internal Audit IT

Why you’ll love working here

High-performance, people-focused culture with commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion. Employees feel valued and empowered to be authentic. Learning and development initiatives, including workshops, Speaker Series events, and access to LinkedIn Learning support career growth. Membership in HOOPP’s world-class defined benefit pension plan helps with retirement security. Competitive 100% company-paid extended health and dental benefits for permanent employees, covering mental health, gender affirmation, fertility and drug treatment, psychological support (up to $2,500 per year), parental leave top-up and a health spending account. Optional post-retirement health and dental benefits subsidised at 50%. Yoga classes, meditation workshops, nutritional consultations and wellness seminars available. Opportunity to help provide a financially secure retirement for Ontario healthcare workers.

Job Summary

The Manager, Internal Audit IT is responsible for leading, planning and executing IT controls testing and data analytics, including providing feedback on IT testing procedures over IT General Controls (ITGC). This position contributes to and supports the Internal Audit Division’s audit plan through assurance engagements such as integrated audits, operational audits, data and business intelligence procedures, continuous monitoring and other assurance engagements. The Manager may also lead or participate in projects and initiatives that contribute to the division’s strategies and objectives. The position partners with IT, Finance and Business groups to identify risk areas, make recommendations on operational controls and influence changes and decisions. The role works closely with the Director of IT Internal Audit and requires an experienced, self‑directed professional who can independently identify and clearly present audit issues of varying complexity to senior management across HOOPP’s divisions.

What you will do

• Independently lead and complete end-to-end IT audits.
• Review and execute detailed audit working papers for IT controls testing, ensuring high quality and consistency with standards, within time, budget and scope.
• Work with client management to develop action plans that address root causes of audit findings.
• Ensure recommendations are practical and are adopted to mitigate long-term risk.
• Gather, clean, and analyse large datasets from various sources, preparing visualisations to support audit engagements.
• Identify evidence-based insights and trends, making relevant recommendations.
• Develop and maintain deep understanding of data sources and supporting technologies across the organization, plus industry best practices for data management.
• Verify that internal controls are efficient and effective to mitigate business risks through data analysis.
• Support the Director of IT Internal Audit in planning, scoping and risk assessments during audit planning.
• Assist the Director to resolve complex issues with management, reaching agreement on appropriate solutions.
• Educate process owners on the importance of controls, effective control environments and the role of internal audits.
• Ensure audit reports are issued timely and align with methodology and standards.
• Ensure timely follow-up, monitoring and accurate reporting of management remediation efforts.
• Utilise technology to improve audit process effectiveness and efficiency.
• Maintain sufficient and current understanding of organisation and underlying risks.
• Support audit team in achieving individual, divisional and team goals.

Strategic Projects and Initiatives

• Assist the Director in planning, developing and implementing special projects.
• Work with stakeholders to build, design, digitalise and automate IT and operational controls.
• Support development and maintenance of internal dashboards using Power BI.

What you bring

Undergraduate degree in accounting, finance or a related business field. CPA and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). Proficient in all aspects of the internal audit cycle with minimum eight years executing and leading internal audit engagements on IT and non‑IT areas. Expert knowledge of internal control best practices and understanding of information system risks, ITGC and end‑user computing controls. Knowledge of SQL, Python, PowerBI, Tableau or similar data analytics tools is an asset. Stron