Senior Financial Analyst, Internal Audit

At Equitable, we believe work should be a place where you feel supported, inspired, and empowered to grow. In our caring and collaborative environment, your curiosity is encouraged, your passion is recognized, and your contributions truly matter. Together, we create meaningful impact, for our clients, our communities, and each other.

The Opportunity: At Equitable, we believe great things happen when we work together. We’re a Canadian mutual company driven by purpose - putting people first and helping Canadians protect today and prepare for tomorrow. If you’re passionate about making a difference and growing your career in an inclusive and collaborative environment, we’d love to hear from you. Our culture is built on care, passion and curiosity.

We put people above all else, strive to be our best and welcome new ideas to deliver positive outcomes.

If you're looking for purpose-driven work in a collaborative and inclusive environment where your voice is heard, and your growth is encouraged we’d love to connect. The Senior Financial Analyst, Internal Audit job is to add value through independently identifying and assessing the effectiveness and efficiency of key controls and processes and designing practical recommendations to mitigate residual risk for all functions and processes of the Company.

The Senior Financial Analyst – Internal Audit supports corporate risk management in addition to day-to-day key accountabilities including identifying, analysing and testing key company controls and processes to ensure the Company is compliant with IFRS, OSFI, CLHIA and other regulations including the implementation of new accounting standards; applying professional judgement to identify the root cause of deficiencies identified and assess their potential impact;

applying professional judgement and business knowledge to develop and recommend process improvements that remediate risk; applying professional judgement to assess management remediation strategies and process improvements; and develop strong, positive relationships with audit clients.

Join one of the region’s top employers and be part of something that truly makes a difference.

Work Arrangements: This is a hybrid role. You will work in our office in Waterloo, ON a minimum of two (2) assigned, consecutive days every other week, plus a fifth (5th) assigned day per month. You are welcome to work from the office more than the minimum requirement and there may be some roles that are required to work in our office more than the minimum requirement.

• Assess key operational process to ensure they are compliant with IFRS, OSFI, CLHIA and other regulations (including the implementation of new accounting standards), and are effective and efficient.
• Able to assess, interpret and communicate audit results to others
• Develop and deliver timely, accurate, relevant and concise internal audit reports and information
• Deliver risk based independent assessments of business processes and functions for Board and Management purposes
• Planning
• Contribute to the development of the annual audit plan
• Responsible for obtaining and analyzing related business processes and documentation to gain a thorough working knowledge of the function or process being examined
• Lead meetings with various levels of staff and Management (manager to Executive Team member) to communicate timelines, review key risks and controls, and complete fraud risk assessments
• Apply professional judgement to evaluate business processes to identify key risks and controls (including evaluating key changes (current or future)) of the business unit or process
• Responsible for developing new audit procedures to reflect the changes in key processes resulting from the implementation of new controls and…