Metrolinx is connecting communities across the Greater Golden Horseshoe. Metrolinx operates GO Transit and UP Express, as well as the PRESTO fare payment system. We are also building new and improved rapid transit, including GO Expansion, Light Rail Transit routes, and major expansions to Toronto’s subway system, to get people where they need to go, better, faster and easier. Metrolinx is an agency of the Government of Ontario.

At Metrolinx, equity, diversity and inclusion are essential to living our values of serving with passion, thinking forward and playing as a team.

This role is an in‑office position based at our (20 Bay St) location. Our team is highly collaborative, and much of our work benefits from in‑person co‑creation, relationship‑building, and hands‑on partnership with leaders across the organization.

Our Internal Audit Office is looking for a Manager, Internal Audit to support the Capital Program audit portfolio in planning, delivering and managing the provision of independent, objective, and constructive assessments of the adequacy and effectiveness of management’s processes to identify and mitigate significant risks across Metrolinx. The ideal candidate will have had experience in senior roles managing teams towards success in the areas of core audit, assurance and advisory, with a focus on major Infrastructure & Capital Program delivery while maintaining excellent relations with key leadership and stakeholders.

Key: This role focuses on internal audit and assurance for capital programs, major infrastructure projects, and business operations within the Canadian public sector. It is not a financial services, insurance, banking, or capital markets audit role.



Candidates should have relevant Canadian public sector internal audit or assurance experience and demonstrated success managing senior stakeholders in large, complex organizations.

What will I be doing?

- Assists the Senior Manager, Internal Audit to maintain a comprehensive Internal Audit strategy that determines the adequacy of Metrolinx’s network of risk management, controls, and governance processes, including maintaining current information on the various sources of assurance across the organization (e.g., reviews, audits, evaluations and assessments performed by the business areas or elsewhere in the organization), to consider and report on the extent to which reliance thereon can be placed by executive management and the Board.
- Plans and manages execution of individual audits with focus on Metrolinx Capital Program portfolio; coordinates various audit projects to meet established deadlines; coordinates priorities with other audit manager(s) and across audit teams.
- Develops and maintains a positive and productive working relationship with staff and management throughout the organization, with a ‘no surprises’ approach to audit work and findings.
- Works in partnership with all Business Units to review and assess current processes and recommend pragmatic and sustainable solutions/enhancements and engage fellow employees to actively identify and manage business risks and controls.
- As needed,



support the coordination of potential audit compliance activities required by the Ministry of Transportation (MTO), the Office of the Auditor General of Ontario, and other external audit functions, and assesses compliance with other regulatory bodies.
- Maintains an up-to-date knowledge of the standards and guidance included in the International Professional Practice Framework (IPPF) developed by the IIA and with evolving knowledge in the field of Internal Auditing; maintains compliance with IIA standards and its Code of Ethics.
- Facilitates the ongoing evolution of internal audit to remain “in-tune” with professional standards and developments and be up-to-date with Metrolinx’s objectives, strategies, lines of businesses, operational processes (e.g., ERM framework), and ‘compliance’ activities.
- Develops, mentors, coaches, and guides a matrixed internal team of highly qualified multi-disciplinary professionals working with co sourced partners.

What Skills and Qualifications Do I Need?

- Completion of a degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Accounting, Information Technology, or a related discipline – or a combination of education, training and experience deemed equivalent.
- Demonstrated years of progressive experience conducting internal audits, including demonstrated years of experience directly managing audit staff, or a comparable combination of progressive experience in internal and external audit (while obtaining relevant professional designation(s)).
- Demonstrated years’ audit experience in the area of major capital project assurance and/or progressive contracting models, preferably within asset-intensive industries such as public transit infrastructure, or comme

📌 Manager, Internal Audit (Toronto)
🏢 Metrolinx
📍 Toronto