Hybrid – currently 2 days on-site, moving to 4 days on-site

- Position Type: Contract
- Contract Duration: 6 month (extension possible)
- Pay Rate: C$90.00–C$108.00 / Hour (CAD)
- Shift / Schedule: Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (some overtime possible)
- Travel Requirements: Not required

Security Specialist

Location: Toronto, ON

Onsite Flexibility

Hybrid – currently 2 days on-site, moving to 4 days in office

Contract Details

- Position Type: Contract
- Contract Duration: 6 month (extension possible)
- Pay Rate: C$90.00–C$108.00 / Hour (CAD)
- Shift / Schedule: Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (some overtime possible)
- Travel Requirements: Not required

Job Summary

We are looking for someone who is well-versed at providing governance, risk, compliance and issue remediation oversight and control best practices that meet the organization'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 the information security control environment.

Key Responsibilities

Independent Remediation Assurance & Testing

- 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.
- Evidence and closure defensibility: Assess evidence sufficiency, commitment traceability, milestone credibility, control ownership, residual risk and closure rationale to support audit and regulatory readiness.

Advisory & Governance

- 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.
- 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 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.
- Partner with model risk, privacy, legal, and technology teams to ensure responsible and compliant AI use.

Must-Have Requirements

- 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

📌 Security Specialist (Toronto)
🏢 Global Technical Talent, an Inc. 5000
📍 Toronto