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Job Description
Our client has a requirement for an Enterprise Portfolio Manager - Strategic Initiatives for a 3-month contract opportunity. The position is located in Toronto.
The Enterprise Portfolio Manager - Strategic Initiatives will be responsible for managing the firm's portfolio of programs and projects.
This role includes:
- Developing the standards and frameworks for managing the portfolio at the enterprise level
- Participating in annual planning to understand the executive strategy and firm priorities for the year and reporting metrics at the enterprise portfolio level
- Reporting to the Director of Enterprise Portfolio and Program Management, the Enterprise Portfolio Manager - Strategic Initiatives will work to ensure the all initiatives are captured in the enterprise portfolio reports and aligned with the firm's strategic direction.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities include:
- Refinement and management of enterprise portfolio processes as they relate to strategic initiatives
- Provide mentoring to Leads and Program/Project Managers
- Creation and maintenance of the Enterprise Portfolio Strategic Dashboard
- Liaise with all channels that may request new initiatives (Portfolio Managers, Business Portfolio Leads, Program Managers)to ensure all new enterprise portfolio components are:
- Mapped to the correct program
- Managed within the correct portfolio
- Correctly linked to any other related components in the enterprise portfolio
- Awareness of all change requests to ensure there is no duplication of effort between components
- Ongoing refinement of the Enterprise Strategic Portfolio Map
- Develop a deep understanding of enterprise and service/business group strategies in order to understand priorities within current project portfolio
- Responsible for gathering and analysis of performance metrics from portfolios, programs and projects
- Identification of enterprise portfolio level risks
- Responsible for ongoing refinement of enterprise business case tools and process:
- Manage and coordinating the business case life cycle
- Review of both initial and refined business cases, providing feedback prior to being presented to enterprise governance
- Implement process to compare estimated to realized financial estimations and infer recommendations
- Create and facilitate annual review of (large) implemented solutions to ensure realized values are being correctly captured
What makes this Special
Our client is one of Canada's leading professional services firms, providing audit, tax, enterprise risk, consulting, and financial advisory services. Their professional services are diverse — from forensic accounting, control assurance, security services, risk management, strategy consulting and enterprise applications, including Oracle, SAP, Cognos, technology services to indirect tax, accounting, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions and personal tax and financial planning. But they all have one thing in common: helping clients excel.
Requirements or Qualifications:
- Completed university degree
- Extensive knowledge of Portfolio/Program/Project Management disciplines as it relates to strategic enterprise initiatives
- Five (5) or more years in business strategy, and/or managing projects/ programs
- Two (2) years experience in Portfolio Management (eg: managing and prioritizing initiatives to implement business strategy)
- Experience interacting with senior management
- Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships with all levels of management and staff
- Experience working with a matrix organization, and effective consensus building skills
- Demonstrates strong influencing skills
- Excellent analytical, interpretive and problem solving skills
- Excellent verbal, written communications skills
- Experience working in a professional services firm managing corporate strategic initiatives would be an asset
Keywords: Portfolio, Program, Project, Management, Strategic, Enterprise
How to Apply
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