Our client is a top financial institution with significant North American holdings. They have operations across most major verticals, including institutional & corporate, wealth management, private clients, commercial banking, treasury, and retail banking.
Introduction:
Robertson is seeking a skilled IT - Security Specialist V to join our client in support of an existing vacancy.
Contract Period: 6 months with potential to extend or convert
Pay Rate: Starting form $84 per hour
Location: Toronto, ON
Location Type: Hybrid
Business Hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Job Responsibilities:- Conduct sample-based testing using the IOR (Inspection, Observation, Reperformance) method to validate the design, implementation, operating effectiveness and sustainability of audit and regulatory remediation activities
- Perform quality assurance to assess whether remediation plans are complete, risk-aligned and ready to proceed by leveraging a QA rubric, relevant evidence and auditor professional judgement
- Lead and conduct independent, risk-focused reviews to confirm action plans, milestones and resolutions are credible, sufficiently evidenced and validation-ready - working with stakeholders across the three lines of defense to ensure effective risk mitigation and remediation
- Provide advice and guidance to Technology segments and Technology Risk Services on various areas requiring subject matter expertise and interpretation
- Audit & Assurance Standards; IT Risk Governance Control Frameworks, and GRC (Governance, Risk, and Compliance) frameworks
- Contribute to the development of mature Governance Oversight & Control practices, through improvement of Risk Identification, Control Design and Operating Effectiveness
- Identify emerging themes, understand trends, and provide specialized business management advice to senior management and respective teams while raising industry, external and internal, enterprise and business awareness
- Leading the design and implementation of an AI enabled bot to support challenge and QA reviews of remediation plans, milestones, and evidence for audit and regulatory findings
- Translate existing challenge frameworks, QA rubrics, scoring criteria, and regulatory expectations into AI- consumable logic, prompts, and evaluation workflows
- Assessing remediation plans for completeness, quality, and risk reduction
Identifying gaps, inconsistencies, and control weaknesses
- Producing structured challenge feedback and scoring aligned to established rubrics
- Ensure AI solutions comply with enterprise information security, data protection, privacy, and model risk management standards
- Partners with model risk, privacy, legal, and technology teams to ensure responsible and compliant AI use
- Demonstrated experience applying the IOR (Inspection, Observation, Reperformance) methodology, or comparable audit validation approaches, to test remediation design, implementation, operating effectiveness and sustainability
- Ability to assess audit and regulatory remediation plans for audit/regulator readiness, including evidence sufficiency, traceability to commitments, milestone credibility, control ownership, residual risk and closure rationale
- Strong auditor mindset with experience developing sample-based test plans, documenting test results, identifying gaps and challenging remediation evidence using professional judgement and applicable audit/control standards
- Competencies in technology controls, emerging threats, and technology risk disciplines and practices
- Strengthen the independent assurance, governance and oversight operations, utilizing lean continuous improvement practices and tools
- Apply core Agile frameworks (e.g. Scrum, Kanban) to execute operational workplan projects
- Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, information security specialists, business stakeholders, and corporate partners to align AI initiatives with strategic objectives
- Ability to train colleagues and team members related to risk and compliance of issue remediations
- Excellent verbal and written business communication skills; meticulous documentation
- Ability to manage multiple efforts simultaneously, priority demands and strong organizational skill
- Ability to effectively interact with individuals across the organization and at various levels (technical, business, Senior & Executive Management) and across all lines of defense
- Stay current with the latest research and trends in AI/ML and recommend relevant tools, frameworks and methodologies
Experience & Qualification Requirements:- University degree required
- Very strong comms – written and verbal- key
- 10+ years as an IT Risk Specialist with relevant experience in governance, risk and compliance management within regulated industries
- Professional technology audit, risk, information security or technology control certification preferred (e.g., CISA, CRISC, CIA or equivalent), with practical experience performing assurance, validation or quality assurance reviews of audit/regulatory findings
- Formal training or demonstrated competency in audit testing techniques, evidence evaluation, issue remediation validation, root cause analysis and control operating effectiveness assessment
- AI-enabled assurance transformation: Lead the design and implementation of an AI-enabled capability that supports challenge and QA reviews of remediation plans, milestones and evidence
- Six sigma
- CISSP certification or equivalent experience a plus – nice to have
- AI security/Risk experience/tools
- Service-now
How to Apply: If you are a motivated professional looking to contribute to a leading team, please submit your resume outlining your qualifications and experience relevant to this role. Robertson & the clients we represent, value diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace. We invite all qualified individuals to apply.
Background screening is required as part of the onboarding process. The type of screening required (criminal, credit, or other verifications) will vary based on the position and client requirements.
We use AI technology as part of our application review process to assist with screening and assessment. All applications are also reviewed by our recruitment team.
