Audit and Control Advisor

3 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada Legal Aid Ontario Full time

**Company Bio**

Legal Aid Ontario employees are committed to making a difference in the lives of our clients.

As an integral partner in the Justice system, working at Legal Aid Ontario is more than just a job. It's an opportunity to help people who need it the most; to ensure each client receives the access to justice afforded to them under the law.

If you are looking for a new challenge in your already meaningful career with a team dedicated to justice, and innovation in a flexible and supportive work environment consider this opportunity below.

**Primary function**

The Audit & Control Advisor will be responsible for completing internal audit projects, ensuring that internal audits comply with applicable standards and guidance, and that resulting reports are fair, impartial, comprehensive and adds value. This includes planning and conducting a wide range of audit, review, assurance and advisory projects.

Home Location: Toronto Provincial Office
Secondary Location: not applicable

Reports to: Manager, Internal Audit

**Key accountabilities**
- Plans, conducts and / or leads when required, highly complex audits including developing audit criteria to assess business processes, performance, internal control systems and accounting records for adequacy and accuracy.
- Manages the agile approach to audit projects and provide support to less experienced team members. Sets work priorities to ensure audit objectives are met and risk areas are covered.
- Ensures working papers contain adequate evidence to support conclusions and they adhere to standards.
- Coordinates audit activities with audit client’s workload and schedule.
- Estimates and reports on expected completion time for project
- Prepares draft reports and submits reports for team lead’s or audit manager’s review; and reviews drafts with clients.
- When leading a project, provides input on team member performance for evaluation purposes.
- Maintains a system of quality control to ensure compliance with applicable auditing standards and external peer review.
- Manages relations and network with audit clients including fostering alliance across business units and transferring risk and controls knowledge.
- Address sensitive situations resulting from audit, resolving if possible and escalating if required.
- Monitor the status recommendations from prior audit reports and perform follow up reviews to assess remediation of risks.
- May maintain the Internal Audit manual and report to manager the need for updates and updates the audit templates.
- Interacts with the Manager to support ongoing oversight of audit projects.
- May support the manager in briefings and other communications with the CAE, executives and the Board.
- Performs other work as assigned.

**Required skills & experience**
- Provide advice, expertise and recommendations regarding the functioning and adequacy of the organization's and its entity service providers’ (ESP) control strategies and systems. Maintain objectivity on all assignments.
- Negotiate cost-beneficial practical solutions to assist the business unit (including ESPs) in meeting its business objectives.
- Provide technical guidance, solicit information for specific audits; conduct informational interviews, present audit reports; advise on improvements to audit and controls; and negotiate the implementation of recommendations and action plans and resolve issues.
- Consult, exchange information on audit and risk management matters.
- Facilitate information exchange with colleagues from the Ontario Public Service (OPS), the Broader Public Sector (BPS) and other sectors.
- Ongoing decision making in performing audits or leading a team of auditors.

Knowledge/ Skills
- Generally accepted auditing standards, accounting principles, audit practices and methodologies.
- General business concepts and strategies pertaining to large board governed public organizations.
- Knowledge of business, programs, policies and legislative authorities unique to public/ social service sector.
- Generally accepted risk management frameworks and principles, practices, standards, methodologies, and contemporary advancements in the field.
- Ability to quickly understand business processes and their risk implications, analyze complex situations to reach appropriate conclusions.
- Ability to assess an entity’s goals against their operations and risk and control structures.
- Project management methodology to handle concurrent projects and tasks, with changing priorities, evolving issues and within target timelines.
- Oral and written communication skills including consultative and customer service skills.
- Proficient knowledge and use of technology tools for business including Caseware and PowerBI.
- Ability to deal with sensitive and confidential issues using developed discretion and judgement, while maintaining independence and objectivity.
- Strong team player.

Working Environment
- Minimal travel within Ontario may be required.
- Involves

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