CIBC

Audit Manager, Validation Centre of Excellence

CIBC$90K — $120K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4-7 years experience in auditing practices and accounting principles, particularly in retail banking.
  • Auditing or accounting designation (CPA, CA, CMA, CGA, ACCA, CIA) or a business degree (MBA).
  • Strong critical thinking skills and attention to detail.
  • Proven ability to build trust and maintain relationships with diverse partners.
  • A collaborative mindset that values teamwork and collective success.
  • Alignment with core values of trust, teamwork, and accountability.

Responsibilities

  • Provide insight and proactive control advice to enhance CIBC's control environment.
  • Plan and execute regulatory and non-regulatory remediation validations across business lines.
  • Design and implement audit steps for effective validation processes.
  • Develop deficiency remediation closure memos, assessing adequacy of management activities.
  • Communicate regularly with stakeholders about progress and challenges during remediation activities.
  • Offer trusted, proactive advice to optimize remediation and validation outcomes.
  • Showcase clear and influential communication skills in reporting and presentations.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and incentive pay.
  • Banking benefits and comprehensive benefits program.
  • Defined benefit pension plan and employee share purchase plan.
  • Vacation offering and wellbeing support.
  • Opportunities for personal and professional development, including a paid day off for growth initiatives.
Full Job Description
What you'll be doing

In this role you will provide insight and proactive control advice to improve the overall control environment within CIBC. You will participate in the planning, execution and reporting of large and/or complex regulatory and non-regulatory remediation validations across various CIBC business lines. You will design and execute audit steps to complete validations and you will also provide an independent opinion on the design and effectiveness of management's remediation including an opinion on controls in accordance with industry best practices. You will build and maintain strong professional relationships with Internal business partners within Internal Audit and across the three lines of defense.

At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. You will have the flexibility to manage your work activities within a hybrid work arrangement where you will spend 1-3 days per week on-site, while other days will be remote.

How you'll succeed
  • Audit effectiveness and execution - Work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to plan and execute remediation validation activities and effectively manage multiple activities at different stages to ensure completion within required timelines. You will communicate regularly on progress and issues to ensure timely execution of team's deliverables and at a high level of quality and compliance with audit standards.
  • Audit reporting - You will drive the development of deficiency remediation closure memos where you objectively assess the adequacy of management remediation activities and their potential impact on the business and to the CIBC Group of Companies while presenting them in a clear, concise, and professional way.
  • Strong relationship management- Provide trusted and proactive advice to business partners as they progress through their remediation activities. You will partner closely with internal partners to ensure optimized progress on CIBCs deficiency remediation and validation activities.
  • Communication - Demonstrate clear, concise, and influential written and verbal communication skills when reporting on the team's status. Develop strong internal and external relationships through ongoing communication on progress of engagements and providing advice on risk, control, and regulatory matters.


Who you are
  • You can demonstrate experience. You have 4-7 years of experience in auditing practices and accounting principles and processes, and strong knowledge with a focus on retail banking and the related regulatory environment in Canada.
  • You are a certified professional. Typically, this knowledge is acquired through obtaining an auditing or accounting designation (e.g., CPA, CA, CMA, CGA, ACCA, CIA), a business degree (e.g., MBA), in addition to business experience either in the banking or financial services industry or internal / external audit assurance and consulting services.
  • You understand that success is in the details. You notice things that others don't. Your critical thinking skills help to inform your decision making.
  • You are passionate about people. You find meaning in relationships and surround yourself with a diverse network of partners. You build trust through respect and authenticity.
  • You are driven by collective success. You know that collaboration can transform a good idea into a great one. You understand the power of an inclusive team that enjoys working together to bring a shared vision to life.
  • Values matter to you. You bring your real self to work, and you live our values - trust, teamwork, and accountability.


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What CIBC Offers

At CIBC, your goals are a priority. We start with your strengths and ambitions as an employee and strive to create opportunities to tap into your potential. We aspire to give you a career, rather than just a paycheck.
  • We work to recognize you in meaningful, personalized ways including a competitive salary, incentive pay, banking benefits, a benefits program*, defined benefit pension plan*, an employee share purchase plan, a vacation offering, wellbeing support, and MomentMakers, our social, points-based recognition program.
  • Our spaces and technological toolkit will make it simple to bring together great minds to create innovative solutions that make a difference for our clients.
  • We cultivate a culture where you can express your ambition through initiatives like Purpose Day; a paid day off dedicated for you to use to invest in your growth and development.


*Subject to plan and program terms and conditions

Job Location
Toronto-81 Bay, 34th Floor

Employment Type
Regular

Weekly Hours
37.5

Skills
Analytical Thinking, Audit Management, Internal Controls, Operating Effectiveness, Risk Based Auditing, Risk Management and Mitigation, Work Collaboratively

About CIBC

The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce is a Canadian multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The bank is headquartered at Commerce Court in the city's Financial District. CIBC's Institution Number is 010, and its SWIFT code is CIBCCATT. It is one of two Big Five banks founded in Toronto, the other being the Toronto-Dominion Bank. The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce was formed through the June 1, 1961, merger of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and the Imperial Bank of Canada, the largest merger between chartered banks in Canadian history. The bank has four strategic business units: Canadian Personal and Business Banking, Canadian Commercial Banking and Wealth Management, U.S. Commercial Banking and Wealth Management, and Capital Markets. It has international operations in the United States, the Caribbean, Asia, and United Kingdom; Globally. CIBC serves more than eleven million clients, and has over 40,000 employees. The company ranks at number 172 on the Forbes Global 2000 listing.
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