Manager, Internal Controls - CA

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Your Opportunity

As a member of the Stantec Internal Controls (IC) team, the Manager, Internal Controls plays a key role in driving and supporting Stantec’s global internal control environment, with a primary focus on Internal Control over Financial Reporting (ICFR) and Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 (SOX) compliance. The role partners with leadership across various business functions globally to identify and address financial reporting risks and to design, document, implement, assess, and sustain effective controls across financially relevant business processes and supporting systems.

The role serves as a strategic business partner, providing practical guidance on financial reporting risk, control design, documentation, remediation, process and system changes, and evolving regulatory requirements. The role works closely with stakeholders to strengthen controls while identifying opportunities to simplify processes, improve consistency, and integrate effective controls into business operations.

The role drives the annual SOX compliance and audit cycle, working collaboratively with business stakeholders to support their control responsibilities and serving as a primary liaison with internal and external auditors. This includes coordinating walkthroughs and testing, managing audit requests, facilitating the resolution of control matters, monitoring remediation activities, and ensuring appropriate documentation and evidence are maintained. The role continually seeks opportunities to improve the ICFR program through more efficient processes, greater standardization, and the effective use of technology and automation.

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Key Responsibilities

Serve as a strategic business partner to leadership across various business functions globally, providing practical Internal Controls expertise and guidance to identify and address financial reporting risks, influence effective and sustainable solutions, and design, implement, document, assess, and sustain controls across financially relevant business processes and supporting systems.

Manage Internal Controls processes and priorities while serving as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, providing practical guidance on complex financial reporting and control matters and balancing planned ICFR activities with evolving business, audit, and regulatory needs. Apply a risk-based approach to prioritize Internal Controls involvement and focus efforts where the function can provide the greatest value to the business.

Lead key activities across the annual ICFR and SOX compliance audit cycle, including annual planning, risk assessment and scoping, walkthroughs, control assessments, evaluation of changes to the control environment, deficiency assessment, remediation, management reporting, and year-end activities.

Act as a key liaison with internal and external auditors, coordinating audit activities, walkthroughs, testing requests, and supporting documentation; facilitating discussions with business stakeholders; and supporting the timely resolution of audit and control matters.

Maintain and enhance the internal control framework, including process narratives, risk and control matrices, control procedures, flowcharts, evidence standards, assessment methodologies, and supporting…