Manager Audit Services

The Opportunity:
**Company, Department: Emera Inc, Audit Services**

**Location: Halifax, NS**

**Closing Date: July 23 2025**

At Emera, you'll be part of an inclusive, respectful workplace where everyone is welcomed and supported. Build a career as unique as you are: making an impact from Atlantic Canada to the world. Your experience and perspective will help Emera safely deliver cleaner, reliable energy to our customers.

We are seeking a Manager, Audit Services - IT, to join our Audit Services team in a permanent position. Reporting to the Director of Audit Services - IT, you will work closely with the enterprise-wide audit team to execute business process and compliance-based IT Assurance & Advisory activities for all Emera affiliates across multiple jurisdictions, including Canada, the Caribbean, and the US.

We at Emera are proud of our Audit Services team and how they contribute to our organization. Our team uses a risk-based approach, is innovative, and strives to continually improve the quality of our assurance and advisory activities and enhance Emera's overall control environment. We encourage our team members to be flexible, open-minded, and critical thinkers who can engage and excite others through new ideas and approaches. As auditors, we also value integrity, objectivity, and professional skepticism, recognizing our team's role in maintaining the highest standards of professionalism and ethical conduct. We are a large, diverse, complex organization with multiple business units that will offer challenges and career growth.

**Key elements of this role include**:

- Executing affiliate IT Assurance and Advisory engagements and providing technical expertise in an advisory/consultation capacity.
- Maintaining relationships with affiliate IT teams, staying informed on risks and strategic initiatives impacting applicable affiliates, and gaining consensus regarding potentially contentious or sensitive items.
- Identifying process improvement and efficiency opportunities to support the organization's overall strategy to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in all processes and to build organizational capacity.
- Monitoring remediation associated with previous audit issues and providing ongoing consultation on remediation approaches.
- Ensuring Audit Services' deliverables adhere to agreed budget and timelines and are shared with applicable management before finalization.
- Managing team members and reviewing their work to ensure adequacy of evidence and consistency in presentation to senior leadership.

**You recognize yourself in most of the following competencies and possess many, if not all, of the skills and experience listed below**:

- Undergraduate degree in Management Information Systems, Accounting, or related business discipline, complemented by an IT-specific audit/risk certification (e.g., CISA, CISM, CGEIT) and related certifications (e.g., CPA, CIA).
- At least six years of direct or related audit or IT audit work experience.
- At least three years of indirect supervisory experience.
- Experience executing IT-specific internal audit work within a dynamic, complex organizational structure.
- Working knowledge of audit concepts and techniques and a broad understanding of enterprise risk, corporate governance, and process and control design.
- Working knowledge of core IT disciplines (e.g., infrastructure, computer operations, middleware, service management, etc.) and emerging risk areas (e.g., cloud, Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, blockchain, etc.).
- Working knowledge of the utility industry's technology compliance requirements (e.g., NERC CIP).
- Experience with IT systems development and implementation, data management concepts knowledge, or ERP systems experience would be considered assets.
- Ability to assess risks and controls relating to IT systems and determine potential business impacts.
- Technical expertise and knowledge of current IT audit standards and techniques.
- Strong influencing, communication, analytical, and decision-making skills with the ability to work inclusively with various individuals to achieve shared objectives and maintain effective business relationships.
- Ability to remain focused and deliver results in a rapidly changing, fast-paced environment.
- Communication skills to translate business needs and challenges into viable and accepted IT solutions.

We understand that experience comes in many forms, and we're dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team. So, if your experience is close to what we've listed above, please consider applying.

**The perks of joining our team? We offer**:

- ** Health & Wellbeing**: A comprehensive benefits plan, 24/7 access to virtual health care services for you and your family through Dialogue, access to a free on-site fitness centre, Employee and Family Assistance Program, parental leave top-up plan and wellness benefits.
- ** Grow Your Career**: Opportunities to advance within and between our operating