Strategic Business Intelligence Consultant

Job Title: Strategic Business Intelligence Consultant
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid – 4 days in office Monday to Thursday)
Duration: 6 Months

Job Description: The Internal Audit Copilot Advisor enables audit teams to use Microsoft Copilot efficiently and responsibly throughout the audit lifecycle. This role focuses on practical, audit ready use cases, coaching, and governance aligned adoption to improve productivity, consistency, and quality—without compromising audit standards or professional judgment.
Key Responsibilities:
Audit Enablement & Coaching

• Train IA team members on day to day Copilot usage across:
  • Audit planning & risk assessment
  • Process understanding & walkthrough documentation
  • Test control design and operating effectiveness
  • Issues, findings, and executive summaries
• Translate Copilot capabilities into audit specific prompts and workflows
• Provide hands on coaching during active audits (“should I use Copilot here and how?”)

Guardrails & Quality

• Define acceptable vs. unacceptable Copilot use within IA
• Embed QAIP, methodology, and documentation standards into guidance
• Help teams craft prompts that produce defensible, auditable outputs

 Use Case Development

• Develop and maintain a library of:
  • Approved prompts
  • Audit examples (planning memos, test steps, issue wording)
  • Do / Don’t guidance by audit phase
• Identify opportunities where Copilot saves time without adding risk

 Change & Adoption

• Act as a single point of contact for Copilot questions in IA
• Drive the change management mindset and behavior in IA team to adopt co-pilot usage during day-to-day audit work
• Support rollout of new Copilot features
• Capture lessons learned and continuously improve guidance

Education: Degree/Level of Education: Bachelor’s degree in:

• Accounting
• Finance
• Business
• Information Systems

Years of Overall Experience: 5-7 years (more is fine as long as the person can demonstrate hands on co-pilot experience)
How will performance be measured: Deliverables, quality of work and meeting deadlines
Preferred/Ideal Candidate Background: being able to use Copilot – familiar in using that tool. Use promotes effic to generate results. Being able to coach and guide and train other team members on Copilot.
MUST-HAVE Hard Skills:

• Copilot experience 3 years
• Hands-on knowledge of MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook) and Internet applications
• Proficient in working multi-functionally, provide guidance to other team members and ensure good relations across teams and functions to work on projects that may require integration of cross functional processes
• Strong communication (written and verbal) skills to interact clearly and effectively in a fast-changing environment
• Internal/ external audit experience

SOFT SKILLS:

• Attention to detail
• Organizational skills
• relationship management skills

NICE-TO-HAVE:

• Microsoft Copilot–related certification
• CPA
• CIA
• CISA

DISQUALIFIERS – is there any information/experience on a candidate’s resume that would disqualify them from consideration for this position?

• No meaningful audit execution experience
• Cannot explain co-pilot user cases or limitations of copilot clearly
• No review or coaching experience

 

At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position's starting pay is: $60.00/hr.