Senior Internal Auditor

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At Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) we are committed to running inclusive and barrier-free recruitment processes.

If you have a limitation that may impact your performance at any steps of the assessment process (such as during a written test or an interview), you may request an accommodation. Assessment accommodations are designed to remove barriers, and to ensure that candidates with limitations can fully demonstrate their abilities. Should you wish to be accommodated, please direct your inquiry to the contact identified at the bottom of this poster. All information received in relation to accommodation will be kept confidential.

For more information on assessment accommodation visit the following website: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-service-commission/services/assessment-accommodation-page.html

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INSTRUCTIONS
- When responding to the screening questions, be sure you:
• Clearly demonstrate how you meet each experience by answering the online questions and provide concrete, specific examples of actions that speak directly to the experience sought.
• Include when the example took place (month-year to month-year), background of each situation, what you did, how you did it, what your role was in the situation, and what was the outcome.
• Focus on what you did. When referring to an experience achieved in the context of a team, set your role apart from the role(s) of others.
• Résumés may be used as a secondary source to validate the qualifications described; comments such as "refer to my attached résumé" will not be accepted and may result in your application being rejected.
• Lack of DETAILS may result in your application being rejected as the Assessment Board may have insufficient information to determine whether you meet the qualifications.
• We invite you to watch this short video (2.5 minutes) to learn more about how to submit your job application online : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GW7P3g9hhI

Work environment

𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗣𝗦𝗣𝗖!
Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) helps the Government of Canada serve Canadians. With a strong focus on quality customer service, we provide innovative common services such as real estate and building management, purchasing, banking, pay and pensions, and translation to other government departments, agencies, and boards. By providing these centralized services to departments and agencies, we enable them to focus on what they do best: providing their programs and services to Canadians.

At PSPC, our approach to inclusion is simple: we are committed to achieving a competent and representative workforce that reflects the diversity of the Canadian population we serve, and strive to create a welcoming, respectful, and inclusive environment that enables collaboration and innovation. When you succeed, we all succeed.

Intent of the process

A pool of partially qualified candidates may be established through this process to staff identical or similar positions within Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC) with various tenures (Indeterminate, specified period, acting, deployment, secondment, assignment), various language requirements and various security requirements.

Positions to be filled: 1

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

EDUCATION
• A degree from a recognized post-secondary institution;
OR
• A recognized professional accounting designation. The recognized professional accounting designations are: Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), Chartered Accountant (CA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA), and Certified General Accountant (CGA).

EXPERIENCE
• Significant* experience in conducting all phases of an internal or an external audit engagement.
• Significant* experience in the development of a risk assessment.
• Significant* experience in conducting internal or external audit interviews, including preparing guides, and taking notes.
• Significant* experience in providing advice and presenting observations to supervisors (Project Leader level, equivalent or above).
• Significant* experience preparing internal or external audit written materials, such as working papers, plans, reports or presentations.

* “Significant” experience is defined as the breadth and depth of experience associated with completing the duties of the position for a period of at least three (3) years.

Degree equivalency

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

Various language requirements
English Essential
Bilingual Imperative BBB/BBB

Information on language requirements

KNOWLEDGE
• Knowledge of Public Services and Procurement Canada’s mandate and priorities.
• Knowledge of the Policy on Internal Audit and the Directive on Internal Audit.
• Knowledge of the International Professional Practice Framework of the Institute of Internal Auditors.

COMPETENCIES
• Demonstrating integrity and respect;
• Thinking things through;
• Working effectively with others;
• Showing initiative and being action-oriented;
• Project management;
• Communication (written and orally);
• Client service competency (Level 1): Delivers high-quality client service.

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

CERTIFICATION
• An internal audit certification (Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Government Accounting Professional (CGAP) or Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)).
• A recognized professional accounting designation. The recognized professional accounting designations are: Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), Chartered Accountant (CA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA), and Certified General Accountant (CGA).

ASSET EXPERIENCE
• Significant* experience leading internal or external audit interviews.
• Significant* experience in gathering and analyzing audit related information to identify issues and provide recommendations.
• Experience in supervising or leading a team.
• Experience in contributing to the conduct of quality assurance reviews.
• Experience in contributing to the development of policies, practices, or procedures.
• Experience in contributing to practice management activities, including the development of a risk-based audit plan and the coordination of the management action plan follow-up exercise.

* “Significant” experience is defined as the breadth and depth of experience associated with completing the duties of the position for a period of at least three (3) years.

ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS
The Public Service of Canada is committed to building and maintaining a skilled, diverse workforce reflective of Canadian society. As a result, it promotes employment equity and encourages candidates to indicate voluntarily on their application if they are a woman, an Aboriginal person, a person with a disability or a member of a visible minority group. Qualified candidates who self-declare as members of one or more of Employment Equity groups (Aboriginal peoples, Persons with a Disability, Visible Minorities, and Women) may be considered and/or selected for appointment to fulfill organizational needs.

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
• Willing and able to travel when required.
• Willing and able to work overtime on short time notice when required.

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance

Other information

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply.

Information on employment equity

1. Candidates must include a valid email address in their application. It is the candidate's responsibility to ensure that this address is functional and that it accepts messages from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email). It is also the candidate's responsibility to ensure accurate information is provided and updated as required.

2. In assessing candidates, assessment boards may use a variety of tools and methods including, but not limited to, reviews of past performance and accomplishments, written tests, interviews, simulations, PSC tests, reference checks, etc. In addition, all information obtained throughout the selection process, from the time of application to close of process, may be used to evaluate the candidates.

3. Candidates invited to participate in an interview will be required to share proof of their education credentials, in the form of a diploma or official transcript. Candidates with foreign credentials must provide proof of Canadian equivalency. Consult the Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials for further information at http://www.cicic.ca

4. Candidates are required to meet the essential qualifications. Depending on the requirements of the position(s) being staffed from this process, for current or future vacancies, any or all of the asset qualifications, operational requirements and organizational needs may be applied at any time during this process.

5. Please note that achieving the pass mark on any of the assessments used does not mean you will move forward in the selection process. Management may decide to use a score that is higher than the pass mark on any of the evaluations used throughout the selection process. Management may also decide to use random or top-down selection at any stage of the assessment process.

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans first and then to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, with the exception of a job located in Nunavut, where Nunavut Inuit will be appointed first.

Information on the preference to veterans

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.