Job description
Closing Date: May 7, 2024, 4:30pm
In this leadership role, you act like a business owner and member of a united leadership team that collaborates, challenges and pivots your team(s) to capitalize on opportunities to support the collective best interest of the organization and achieve excellence. Your enterprise knowledge helps influence and contribute to strategy development and directs the work required to deliver on our purpose.
Operationally, you will set priorities, direct, and deliver organizational outcomes by collaborating with others and making tough business decisions to align tactics for strategy implementation while ensuring organizational health and success.
You are a visible cultural leader, who embraces our values and behaviors to inspire others. You create a team(s) of empowered employees, that share an organizational vision. You develop team capabilities and skills, manage team priorities, drive change processes and remove obstacles for success.
Reporting directly to the Head of Internal Audit this leader is directly accountable for connecting organizational and departmental strategy to meaningful work for the team, and by delivering the outcomes and results required of a modern Credit Union.
The Leader of Technology and Data Audit is dedicated to carrying out activities that aid the audit department in fulfilling its mission to provide independent, objective assurance and consulting services designed to add value and improve the Credit Union’s operations. The Leader of Technology and Data Audit, leads a team of professionals that focus on information technology audits (inclusive of data), cyber security audits, and brings efficiencies to the Audit department through automation and analytics.
Position Overview:
Specifics for the function
- Overseeing the design, enhancement, and implementation of the IT & Data audit framework.
- Direct the IT & Data Audit team to complete the annual Internal Audit Plan.
- Develop short and long-term strategic plans for the Audit department with the Head of Internal Audit.
- Develop a strategy and implementation plan for an audit automation and analytics function to increase business insights and enhance departmental efficiencies.
- Evaluating IT & Data project plans, solution design documents, and testing scenarios to ensure their completeness and adequacy, and to confirm that controls are in place to mitigate risks.
- Conduct high level reviews and complete audit reports presented to Senior Management and the Board.
- Communicate with management regarding audit findings and recommendations, suggested improvements in operations, and opportunities for cost reduction and earnings improvement.
- Stay abreast of emerging audit practices and actively support the modernization of the audit function in line with business requirements.
- Develop and maintain strong stakeholder relationships.
- Location: on-site/ hybrid/ remote.
You have demonstrated the following essential leadership skills:
Ambidextrous Leader: Lead in a rapidly changing 2-speed organization by focusing on core expertise and working knowledge of other areas of the business so that work is better aligned and assimilated across the organization. With an Entrepreneurial mindset, solve organizational opportunities and challenges through collective critical thinking using teamwork, collaboration, communication, and collective problem solving to make the right decision for the organization.
Change Agility and Innovation: Embrace proactive leadership by driving change and fostering innovation, using design thinking, data analysis, AI thinking and digital literacy to project manage and prototype ideas that strengthening networks and champion a culture of adaptability and collaboration.
Operational Excellence: Manage the portfolio with efficiency, focusing on productivity, problem solving, and resource optimization by harnessing industry, business and digital solutions that deliver results. Nurture a winning mindset with self and team.
Courageous Leadership: Cultivate a culture of excellence and learning, coaching diverse and inclusive high-performing teams to be bold and thrive by demonstrating and inspiring others to live the values and behaviours of a modern credit union in a caring and emotionally intelligent way. Embrace making the right choice even when it is not easy.
Accountable Decision Making: Take full ownership of decisions and results that impact the organization and department. Use paradoxical thinking to manage the tensions between short- and long-term goals; department and organizational needs; systems and people; using data, evidence, experience and judgement to guide choices to do what is right.
Fiscal and Risk Responsibility: Lead responsibly ensuring the organization is profitable through strict cost management controls and identifying and proactively mitigating risks.
Skills and Qualifications:
Minimum of eight years of experience in an audit function, supported by more than five years in related information technology risk areas. A strong background information technology will be considering in lieu of formal audit experience.
Undergraduate degree, preferably in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or Economics.
Minimum five years of leadership experience.
Preference is given to candidates with one or more of the following certificates: Certified Information Systems Auditor, Certified Internal Auditor, Chartered Accountant, Master of Business Administration, Certified Management Accountant or Information Technology certifications such as Certified Data Professional, ITIL Foundations etc.
Most importantly, we’re looking for candidates who align with our values. We live our values in how we do business. We’re not afraid to be different – in fact, we embrace our differences. We have a spirit that motivates us to give our best service to members every day. It’s our values that attract many people to Servus – and keep them with us. We embrace our culture and heritage, and we pride ourselves on our strong commitment to the communities we serve and our efforts to build and maintain member loyalty. If this sounds like you, then we encourage you to apply
Working for Servus has outstanding benefits. In addition to standard benefits like health and wellness, vacation and retirement savings programs, we also provide other important benefits such as:
- Training & Development Opportunities
- Career Advancement Potential
- Flexible work options
- Competitive Compensation including performance-based incentive pay
- Meaningful work towards individual and corporate goals
- Opportunities to get involved and give back through an employee volunteer program
For information about these benefits and more, click here.
At Servus, our employees are also members. This means you’ll have all the benefits of being a member of the credit union including profit sharing, voting for the board of directors, and all of the services we provide … with a few additional perks!
What happens next?
Only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Should you require any accommodations during the hiring process, please advise us at that time.
Discover a sense of belonging amongst a team of unique, authentic individuals working together to reimagine financial fitness. We value and celebrate the richness that diverse backgrounds and experiences bring to our community. Your skills, passion, and curiosity may find a sense of belonging at Servus, so even if you don’t check every box we encourage you to apply!
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