IT – Security Specialist V

Job Title: IT – Security Specialist V
Location: Toronto or Mississauga, ON (Hybrid)
Estimated Duration: 6 Months

Job Specific Accountabilities
We are looking for someone who is well-versed at providing governance, risk, compliance and issue remediation oversight and control best practices that meet client’s overarching Global Technology Solutions strategy and objectives. The individual will be responsible for partnering with Technology segments to support independent challenge and oversight of issue remediation plans impacting our information security control environment. Here’s some of what you may be asked to perform:

• 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.

AI-Enabled Assurance Transformation:

• 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.

Develop and maintain AI models capable of:

• 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

Job Requirements 
What can you bring to client? Share your credentials and your relevant experience and knowledge. It helps if you have:

• 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.

Specific Educational Requirements / Accreditations:

• 10+ years as an IT Risk Specialist with relevant experience in governance, risk and compliance management within regulated industries.
• Professional audit, risk, information security or technology control certification preferred (e.g., CISA, CRISC, CISSP, 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.
• Experience working within regulated financial services and interacting with Internal Audit, regulators, second line oversight and technology control owners to support finding closure and examination readiness.
• Information Security or technology risk and controls background (financial industry experience a plus).
• IT governance experience in information security and controls risk frameworks (i.e., ITIL, NIST, COBIT).
• Knowledge and experience with various lifecycle methodologies / frameworks, i.e., Agile, Project Management, IT Processes, Risk Management frameworks and process / operations.
• Knowledge and experience with various technology tools including, but not limited to, ServiceNow, RSA Archer, JIRA, Confluence, Sharepoint, MS Office, Excel.

Information Security Specialist – Remediation QA & Testing and AI Transformation

• Independent remediation assurance: Lead risk-focused challenge and oversight of audit and regulatory remediation plans affecting the information security control environment.
• Sample-based testing: Apply Inspection, Observation and Reperformance (IOR) techniques to validate control design, implementation, operating effectiveness and sustainability.
• Quality assurance and readiness: Use established QA rubrics, evidence and professional judgement to determine whether remediation plans are complete, risk-aligned, credible and validation-ready.
• Evidence and closure defensibility: Assess evidence sufficiency, commitment traceability, milestone credibility, control ownership, residual risk and closure rationale to support audit and regulatory readiness.
• Cross-functional challenge and advisory: Partner across the three lines of defense and advise Technology and Technology Risk stakeholders on audit standards, IT risk governance and GRC frameworks.
• 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.
• Assurance logic and model development: Convert challenge frameworks, QA rubrics, scoring criteria and regulatory expectations into AI-consumable logic, prompts and evaluation workflows that identify gaps and produce structured feedback.
• Responsible AI governance: Ensure AI solutions comply with enterprise information security, privacy, data protection and model risk standards in partnership with Legal, Privacy, Model Risk and Technology teams.

MUST-HAVE Hard Skills:

• 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.

SOFT SKILLS:

• Attention to detail
• Strong communication skills

NICE-TO-HAVE

• Six sigma
• CISSP certification or equivalent experience a plus. – nice to have
• AI security/Risk experience/tools
• Service-now