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Manager, Internal Controls & Compliance
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Halifax, NS, Canada
Posted on Jun 30, 2026
The Opportunity
Company, Department: Emera, Corporate Finance
Location: Halifax, NS
Closing Date: July 13, 2026
At Emera, you’ll be part of an inclusive, respectful workplace where everyone is welcomed and supported. Come build a career as unique as you are: making an impact from Atlantic Canada to the world. Your experience and perspective will help Emera to safely deliver cleaner, reliable energy to our customers. If working in an innovative environment, challenging yourself, and shaping a cleaner energy future inspires you, we want to hear from you.
We are currently looking for a Manager Internal Controls & Compliance to join our team in a permanent position. Reporting to the Director Internal Controls & Compliance, Finance, you will work closely with various departments and affiliates to guide, support and execute on our company-wide SOX requirements.
Our team works closely with finance stakeholders to strike the right balance between the time and cost impact of compliance with regulatory requirements, and mitigating risk. This partnership often includes collaboration with Internal Audit or third party consultants to reach cost-effective decisions when implementing or evaluating regulatory compliance. We are a large, diverse, complex organization with multiple business units that will offer challenge and career growth.
As Manager Internal Controls & Compliance, your responsibilities will include:
- Maintain and update centralized SOX deliverables over materiality and associated risk assessments, including:
- Facilitate Affiliate and financial statement line item (“FSLI”) scoping assessment in conjunction with Affiliate Finance Leadership.
- With the support of the key IT stakeholders at Nova Scotia Power (NSP) and Tampa Electric (TEC), facilitate the IT scoping assessment by Affiliate IT Leadership.
- Liaise with Internal Audit and external auditors on the results of the FSLI and IT scoping outcomes, especially any key changes anticipated in the current year program.
- Facilitate the timely update/refresh of Business Process descriptions and controls documentation by the SOX champions and support from Finance leaders within Affiliates.
- With the support of the key IT stakeholders at NSPI and TEC, facilitate the timely update/refresh of the IT General Controls descriptions and controls documentation.
- Provide advice to Affiliate Management and perform an initial evaluation of their response to deficiencies identified by Internal Audit or external auditors.
- Proactively evaluate whether there are themes to deficiencies, or whether deficiencies identified in one affiliate may also be applicable to another affiliate.
- Maintain relationships with affiliate employees, stay informed on risks and strategic initiatives impacting applicable affiliates, and gain consensus regarding potentially contentious or sensitive items.
- Develop and oversee a continuing education program incorporating developments and best practices for issuers subject to SOX requirements.
- Ability to understand business risks, challenges and recognize opportunities for process improvements
- Seek to continuously improve the SOX program to become more efficient and effective through optimization and automation.
- Perform limited quality control procedures over selected working papers across the organization to identify potential areas of SOX policy deviation.
The successful individual will have excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills and an ability to build consensus across an organization by consistently demonstrating credibility as a subject matter expert. You bring maturity, confidence, and decision-making capability, along with enthusiasm and energy.
What Skills will make you successful?
You recognize yourself in most of the following competencies and possess many, if not all, of the skills and experience listed below:
- Undergraduate degree with a concentration in accounting, business, or related discipline
- Certifications demonstrating a breadth of knowledge over internal controls over financial reporting, or business (e.g., CPA, CIA, etc.)
- Minimum of 6 years of direct or related work experience. Related experience consists of public accounting, internal audit, or financial analysis/processes or role in financial accounting or reporting
- Successful management of a team, or coordination of individuals, in delivering business/department objectives
- Demonstrated project management, tracking and meeting multiple deliverables and deadlines with appropriate level of stakeholder involvement.
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills, demonstrated experience with solving problems
- Experience with the design, implementation and evaluation of both design and operational effectiveness of internal controls over financial reporting
- Knowledge and experience with OneStream, Oracle EBS or SAP environment
We understand that experience comes in many forms, and we're dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team. So, if your experience is close to what we've listed above, please consider applying.
The perks of joining our team? We offer:
Health & Wellbeing: A comprehensive benefits plan, 24/7 access to virtual health care services for you and your family through Dialogue, access to a free on-site fitness centre, Employee and Family Assistance Program, parental leave top-up plan and wellness benefits.
Grow Your Career: Opportunities to advance within and between our affiliate companies, a focus on employee development and available sponsored education programs.
Community Engagement & Care: Corporate investments in the places where our people live and work, mentoring opportunities, fundraising-matching and; volunteer programs, various committees and employee resource groups, and scholarships for children of employees.
Competitive Compensation: Short-term incentive plan and a Defined Contribution Pension Plan.
Inclusion at Emera:
As one of Atlantic Canada’s largest publicly traded companies, we are ranked one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Top Employers for Young People and Top Diversity Employers. We know our success is driven by our dedicated teams and we strongly encourage applications from all qualified candidates, including persons who identify as racially visible, Indigenous, persons with disabilities, women in underrepresented roles and members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community. Applicants from these equity groups may self-identify through the online application process. We support candidates and employees with access and accommodation needs and encourage you to let us know when you require accommodation.
Recruitment & Promotion Policy
The success of the Emera Company is driven by its people: a strong team with a shared commitment to support the Emera Company mission and values by our recruitment policy and values, we are dedicated to maintaining a fair hiring process that provides equitable opportunities to all our applicants.