Director of Quality (REMOTE)

About this Job:

● Remote work

● Maintain effective quality management policies and procedures;

● Work with the Quality team to ensure firm’s quality assurance and ethics culture continually improves and compliance with firm’s quality control policies and procedures

● Continued enhancement of our processes to support the requirements of CSQM1 and CSQM2, including identification and implementation of opportunities for automation and other efficiencies

● Ongoing assessment and communication of matters concerning quality control that is progressive in nature. Ensuring adequacy of firm policies and procedures in conjunction with developments in the profession; Monitoring of engagements

● Participate in compliance monitoring to assess adherence to our internal Quality Management policies

● Develop executive-level communications for individual and aggregate monitoring findings to communicate key trends and suggestions for firm, office, and engagement-level root causes and remediation (if required). Expertise in Accounting, Assurance, Provincial Codes of Professional Conduct & Other Professional Standards

● Serve as a technical resource on assurance and accounting matters

● Review and make recommendations on significant unresolved differences of opinion and disputes related to professional standards

● Assist with the review and required updates to our engagement templates, checklists, letters and financial statement note library to ensure compliance with current and future assurance and accounting standards

● Assist the firm’s Chief Anti-Money Laundering Officer, as required. Professional Development & Training

● Work within the Quality team to ensure effectiveness of professional education and development activities

● Assist with the development of training materials and present topics at internal continuing professional education sessions and annual internal professional conferences.

● Liaising with regulatory and professional oversight bodies such as CPAB and CPA provincial institutes, etc. on an as needed basis.

Requirements:

● Canadian CPA designation is required, preferably a CA legacy designation holder

● 10+ years of Public Accounting experience

● Broad and deep understanding of Canadian auditing standards (US SAS considered an asset) and the following Canadian generally accepted accounting frameworks: IFRS, ASPE, ASNPO, (PSAS and US GAAP considered an asset)

● Knowledgeable about advanced and emerging audit approaches and methods

● Willingness to develop a strong understanding of our audit methodology and practice aids

● Ability to rapidly differentiate and prioritize tasks to ensure significant issues are addressed in a timely fashion

● Willingness to travel as required to our offices across Northern and Western Canada, if deemed essential