Project Control Officer

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About the Job

Our client has a requirement for a PCO for a 6 Month Contract opportunity. Position will be based out of Creekside Mississauga with travel in the GTA area - Markham or Toronto Downtown and Ottawa occasionally  

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

Our client is looking for an intermediate Project Control Officer to provide project support and analysis to the Senior IT Manager on the MBNA Integration Technology program. The successful candidate must be a strong team player, self-motivated, highly organized and able to multi-task in a fast paced, dynamic environment. 

Responsibilities

• Lead and complete work packages and/or smaller projects and provide administrative support to the project, including project documentation, tracking, reporting and maintaining project processes, organization charts and vacation schedules, and follow-up with relevant stakeholders if required 
• Support status report generation and keep other team members informed and up-to-date about the status/progress of projects, and all relevant or useful information related to day-to-day activities 
• Manage SharePoint & Intranet structure and content schedule and organize meetings, including preparation and coordination by booking the facility, distributing agenda and required materials, arranging required equipment, etc., as required 
• Support the change management process by helping to identify and assess change requests, escalating when necessary to ensure scope management 
• Support projects by helping monitor project scope, milestones, dependencies, costs and benefits through the entire lifecycle and coordinate forecast and resource monitoring with the Senior IT Manager 
• Coordinate activities to enable Technology Project Manager to complete vendor and contractor resource management, work packages, plans, and schedules 
• Support the communication and uptake of risk and issue mitigation and escalation strategies with projects 
• Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance productivity, effectiveness and operational efficiency of the LOB/portfolio processes 
• Support Knowledge Management processes for LOB/portfolio; Coordinate and facilitate the training and communication of key knowledge assets with required SMEs 
• Assist the Senior IT Manager in identifying candidate projects for capacity forecasting process participation 
• Communicate monthly capacity forecasting process submission deadlines
• Assist in monitoring capacity forecasting process compliance among Technology Project Managers 
• Complete responsibilities on a timely basis, while prioritizing and managing workload to ensure quality results 
• Consistently exercise discretion in managing correspondence, information and all matters of confidentiality; escalates issues where appropriate 
• Support a positive work environment that promotes service to the business, quality, innovation and teamwork and ensure timely communication of issues/ points of interest 
• Participate in knowledge transfer within the team and business units 
• Assignments and tasks as assigned by the manager

 Requirements or Qualifications

• At least 4 years of solid Excel experience in  budget, reports, resource planning, data analysis 
• At least 4 years of experience in Sharepoint, MS Office, MS Project, PowerPoint 
• At least 4 years of solid experience as PCO with PMLC / SDLC experience 
• worked with large IT projects/programs 

Key Words: PCO, SDLC, RESOURCE

How to Apply

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