Senior Project Manager

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About the Job

Our client has a requirement for a Senior Project Manager for a six month contract opportunity.  The position is located in Toronto.

What makes this Special

Our client is one of the largest Banks in North America. With exponential growth and millions of customers and clients who are served through our various businesses: Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking, Wealth Management, U.S. Personal and Commercial Banking, and Wholesale Banking. Being part of this company is being part of a better Canadian service.

Role

We are seeking a seasoned project manager to lead a large project that has the objective to deliver a data warehouse, reporting tools and data maintenance solution that is being developed in house.

Responsibilities

• As a senior project manager the incumbent will be expected to perform the following duties:

• Develop and maintain the project schedule.
• Working with the team to obtain work effort estimates and other input to the planning process.
• Work with other PM’s to coordinate external dependencies across projects.
• Work with other PM’s to resource balance across consolidated plans, where required.
• Ongoing management and escalation of issues and risks.
• Organizing and facilitating meetings.
• Communication management within and outside the project team
• Regular status reporting.
• Financials management – accountable for the project budget and tracking of actuals.
• Ongoing scope management and facilitation of change requests when required.
• Resource planning and management.
• Writing and gaining approval for project management artifacts to obtain funding and approval for additional phases of work.
• Ongoing maintenance and update to all project management artifacts including Readiness Assessment and Project Closure documents.
• Working with and motivating the project team to deliver exceptional quality deliverables that exceed sponsor expectations.

Requirements or Qualifications

Qualified Candidates will have:

• Trading risk; including Market Risk, Counterparty Credit Risk and Liquidity Risk.
• Trading P&L processes, P&L Attribution, Valuation adjustments and IPV processes.
• Data warehouse development and implementation
• Business Intelligence (BI) Reporting tools knowledge and implementation
• GUI front end development and implementation
• Software development lifecycle processes and best practices
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• Demonstrated experience managing large complex projects in an investment banking environment
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills managing stakeholder relationships.
• PMI Certification required, ITIL certification an asset

How to Apply

Online:

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Email:

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