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Kindred Credit Union

Senior Internal Auditor

Kindred Credit Union, Kitchener, ON


At Kindred Credit Union, you will be part of cooperative banking that connects values and faith with finances, inspiring peaceful, just, and prosperous communities.

You're invited to make a difference... as a full-time permanent Senior Internal Auditor.

Internal Audit provides independent, objective assurance and advisory services designed to add value and improve operations of Kindred Credit Union. This role, reporting to the Director, Internal Audit, helps the credit union accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of its risk management, control, and governance processes.

Key responsibilities

  • Provides assurance services to evaluate the effectiveness of key controls for Head Office and Branch operations. Develops or updates audit plans for assigned areas included in the annual Internal Audit Plan, including more complex and higher risk processes. These may include audits of Credit Risk Management, Corporate Governance, Enterprise Risk Management, AML/ATF, Capital Management (including ICAAP and stress testing), Liquidity Risk Management (including swaps and securitization transactions), Information Technology (IT Security, IT Operations, IT Governance) and others.
  • Reviews and analyzes findings, identifies issues and their root causes, considers risks and impacts, develops cost-effective and practical recommendations to strengthen internal controls or improve operational efficiency.
  • Provides advisory services to evaluate the effectiveness of key controls for new initiatives, process changes and projects.
  • Researches topics related to risk management, control, and governance processes (including cybersecurity) and assesses the adequacy of Kindred's practices.
  • Provides input for new or updated company policies and procedures.


What to bring

You are a CIA and/or CPA with a successful track record of audit experience and solid technical and organizational skills. You are motivated by our purpose, and aligned with our shared values of integrity, compassion and stewardship. You are skilled at communicating and relationship building and energized by the opportunity for your audit work to make the organization better.You have strong IT skills to be able to audit highly technical IT functions/processes and which can be utilized in performing audits (e.g. data analytics).

Plus, you bring your qualifications and experience:

  • Completion of a post-secondary degree in Finance, Business or a related field
  • 5+ years of progressive experience in Internal Audit
  • Certified Internal Auditor and/or Chartered Professional Accountant designation is essential
  • Specific expertise in IT audit is requested and preferred
  • Experience in financial services is an asset
  • Strong technical and interpersonal/communication skills are essential


Why Kindred

You will be part of a collaborative workplace where you'll be asked to participate in the business and share your voice. You'll be expected to continually grow your skills and abilities and to share your expertise and experience with teammates. You'll also be supported in volunteering your talents for community and other programs that are important to you. For many roles, we offer flexible and remote options that we can discuss with you.

We believe that your life is bigger than any job, so we'll work together to achieve work-life quality and to care for your overall wellness. Your rewards package includes competitive total compensation plus an array of financial products and services at preferred rates for staff. By choosing Kindred, you'll be joining an engaged workforce: we're a provider of a Living Wage, and we're using business as a force for good™ as a B Corp.

Our comprehensive total rewards package includes:

  • Competitive total compensation ($75k to $88.5k)
  • Group benefits plan & commitment to staff wellness
  • 4 weeks of vacation, vacation purchase program
  • Career growth opportunities, continuous training & development support
  • Staff benefits on financial products & services (including Group RSP matching)


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Ready to choose Kindred?Visit us atwww.kindredcu.com/careersto learn more about why people enjoy working with us and what we offer. Please apply with your resume. We look forward to connecting with you!

As a team of people who, with compassion, integrity, and stewardship, care deeply about each other, our members, our communities, and our world, Kindred is committed to building an equitable, diverse, and inclusive workplace. Kindred's values-centered and faith-inspired, warmly professional, expressly invitational characteristics compel us to be a place that understands, respects, and values, and treats equitably all people of every race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, and disability.