Job Title: Project Manager
Contract Duration: 12 Months
Pay range C$70 - 90/hr
Work Type: Hybrid (In office 2 days a week)
Schedule: Monday-Friday, Core business hours
Work Location: Toronto, ON
Summary Of Day-To-Day Responsibilities:

• The Treasury Project Manager will plan, manage, and deliver distinct projects through all specific phases in alignment with Treasury business and/or enterprise strategies.
• This individual may manage a number of medium to large-sized projects at any given time with a medium to high complexity risk profile and time horizon generally ranging from medium to long term.

Job Responsibilities include:

• Indirectly manage a project team consisting of Business Analysts, Business SMEs, and technology resources (where applicable)
• Engage the executive sponsor to ensure active participation in project initiatives
• Engage appropriate stakeholders to identify and manage the required outcomes of projects for the business
• Establish effective project oversight and other governance bodies, and engage the correct levels to support the direction for the project
• Provide ongoing communication to key stakeholders, including the Project Sponsor, Business Project Owner, Program Manager, and Portfolio Manager, to ensure they are aware of significant changes to the project status in a timely manner
• Respond to inquiries and escalate concerns from stakeholders at all levels in the organization (technical, business, Senior, and Executive Management)
• Project Manager provides advice and guidance to business partners and the project team as required regarding best practices in project management
• Collaborate with appropriate partners to ensure required resources are assigned to the project for successful delivery
• Deliver and own project outcomes that are aligned with established cost, timing, deliverables, and scope objectives
• Generate cost estimates and provide general financial management, incorporating risk, by leveraging appropriate tools, templates,
• Proactively identify and track project risk and develop mitigation plans to manage risk
• Accurately forecast and manage assigned budget to provide monthly financial reporting for projects in alignment with Finance standards
• Apply clientBG principles of project management life cycle methodologies, tools, and best practices, ensuring that appropriate documentation, change, and risk management practices are in place
• Plan, coordinate, and supervise complex informatics assignments.
• Design and apply new methods and procedures.
• Coordinate systems development for major applications, define project requirements including information and data needs, business analysis, and programming.
• Develop, plan, analyze, evaluate, and assign priorities to deliverables and requirements.
• Define project phases, set deadlines, and manage staff.
• Develop project plans with milestones. Coordinate all meetings and interface with business units, staff, and service providers.
• The successful candidate will be responsible for the oversight and execution of multiple projects and project managers.
• Accountable for managing broad and highly complex teams and projects involving significant scope and complexity.

Key accountabilities are:

• Sets direction at an operational level, works autonomously in the management of the unit, and collaborates with other business heads to establish and execute on common goals.
• Directs or manages large-scale applications, programs or projects across multiple product lines, involving significant scope and complexity.
• Ensures delivery of projects to the business partner, meeting the approved scope/cost/schedule/quality for the project.
• Perform a governing role for, ensuring that the proposal, execution, control, deployment, training and hand off, warranty support, and closure meet promised schedules.
• Project Manager performs risk identification and mitigation activities, escalating unresolved issues to the Executive and/or Steering Committee where appropriate to secure their timely decisions/support.
• Manages the acquisition and deployment of resources, including budget, by working with the Project Managers to secure the resources required for the project.
• Ensures client satisfaction with the project process and project team by effective and timely communication, including status reporting, continual risk/issue assessment/management and escalation, and resolution of issues as they arise.
• The Project Manager will be required to work with and influence senior-level leaders and partner with other IT Managers.
• Manage a team that consists of 50 to 100 people.

Skills:

• Proven leadership skills and experience managing large and complex IT projects.
• Full life cycle development experience.
• Experience with proven project methodology tools.
• PMI or ITIL certification. Expertise in MS Project, Excel, Visio, and Powerpoint.
• 8-10 years of experience

Must Have:

• FI / Banking industry 8+ years
• Complex project management 8 years
• Executive Stakeholder Management
• Treasury
• Excellent written and verbal skills for interactions with senior executive stakeholders

Nice To Have

• PMP certification, CSM, or equivalent preferred

About The Company:

• Top 10 bank in Canada and North America offering comprehensive financial solutions. Providing retail, commercial, wealth management, and wholesale banking services, we help clients thrive in today's evolving market.

About GTT

• GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. As a Native American-owned, economically disadvantaged corporation, we highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces. Our clients are Fortune 500 banking, insurance, financial services, and technology companies, along with some of the nation's largest life sciences, biotech, utility, and retail companies across the US and Canada. We look forward to helping you land your next great career opportunity!

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