Job Title: Sr. Project Manager Job ID: TW905599328Location: Edmonton, ABOverview:Are you a strategic, big picture thinker with an excellent track record of leading large scale, enterprise impacting projects? Do you excel at partnership creation and stakeholder engagement? Are you a project leader, results driver and can artfully pivot? If your immediate response is “yes!”, then you might be a perfect fit for a Senior Project Manager role! Our client is looking for Senior Project Managers, experienced in project management services to make an impact by providing hands-on project management support including implementing project governance practices aligned with the PMO Governance Framework and project stakeholder expectations, successfully completing projects, initiatives, and activities to improve and support business process effectiveness and efficiency. This is a key role in the execution of projects in a growing organization looking to disrupt the financial industry in Canada. Career exposure and opportunity for elevation is guaranteed. This role requires an insightful project manager with a strong sense of ownership, expert knowledge, and an abundance of grit and resilience. Possessing the capability to oversee multiple diverse projects with competing priorities requires confidence, strong analytical, and negotiation skills. Collaborative in nature, this candidate can leverage resources successfully to produce effective results while navigating varied stakeholder groups at all levels of the organization. Superior communication skills with the ability to convey strategic and operational concepts/updates with ease. Accustomed to fast-paced environments with shifting priorities and this incumbent excels under pressure to meet all required deadlines. This role requires sound judgement and proven decision making abilities. This key role demands commitment and persistence to achieving and sustaining a heightened state of optimization. This role is not for the faint of heart and requires someone with a winning aspiration.What you will be doing:

• Validate client and user impacts throughout the project lifecycle, including delivery of defined benefits.
• Perform full management of project budgets, vendor invoice management, budget tracking, and final project delivery within the agreed budget.
• Prepare, maintain, and report on project budgets to the Project Owner, including acting as lead for tracking and accounting for project-related expenditures (capital and NIE).
• Review and action on opportunities to improve project cost savings, reduce rework, and effectively use re-sources assigned to projects
• Provide hands-on project management support including implementing project governance practices aligned with the PMO Governance Framework (practices, processes, and artifacts) and in alignment with project stakeholder expectations including the Executive Sponsor and Project Owner.
• Successfully complete projects, initiatives and activities as assigned and defined to improve and support business process effectiveness and efficiency benefits
• Effectively deliver leadership on projects as assigned, including demonstrated encouragement of team cohesion and growth, maintenance of vendor-client relationships, and sustainment of team motivation and commitment to projects.
• Prepare, maintain, and report on project budget to Project Owner, including acting as lead for tracking and ac-counting for project-related expenditures (Capital and NIE).
• Complete management of project scope, quality, vendor management, reportable benefits tracking, and over-all final delivery within the agreed timelines.
• Effectively engage and lead the day-to-day management of assigned project team member through planned work activities (team size variable depending on project) in view of deliverables.
• Ensure continued project alignment with the PMO and the organizations strategic direction and business plans.
• Full oversight of portfolio financials, including approved budgets, budget adjustments, actuals and financial forecasts, including continuous review and action on project cost savings, reduce rework, and effective use of resources.

What you must have:

• Undergraduate degree in information technology (ideally software focused), project management, or a related discipline.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification required
• Program Management Professional (PMP), ITIL Foundations, Organization Change Management (OCM) – ADKAR, Lean Six Sigma, Management of Portfolios (MoP) and/or PRINCE 2 certifications ideal, but not required.
• Minimum of 9 years in a progressively senior/enterprise level, responsible with diversified project management experience, preferably in the financial industry, in the areas of information technology (software/hardware implementation), business transformation, and new business line product and service rollout.
• Proven effectiveness in managing medium to large multi-departmental and enterprise level projects, demonstrating the ability to effectively manage high risk, conflict resolution, and collaboration/fostering of project success.
• Minimum of 7 to 10 years of direct experience in managing the end-to-end implementation of a third party vendor Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) product or and/or in-house software/product development project through a robust Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Expertise with all aspects of project management processes, including project procurement and vendor management processes.
• Advance skillset in use of project management software, tools, and techniques (preferably with experience on ServiceNow Project Portfolio Management (PPM) or similar type software product).
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