Intermediate Project Manager (Data Acquisition project)

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About the Job

Our client has a requirement for an Intermediate Project Manager for a 1 Year Contract opportunity. The position is located in Toronto, ON.

 

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

One of client is looking for an Intermediate Project Manager to manage 2 data acquisition projects/work streams. This role will have a large focus around data governance, quality and acquisition.

Requirements or Qualifications

• 5+years of project management experience
• Experience leading/managing a data acquisition project
• Experience with Data Warehousing environments
• Experience managing large projects within Financial Institutions
• Previous Financial Industry experience is required; previous Banking experience is preferred
• Ability to work independently and lead a team
• Ability to work in a high stress, fast paced environment
• Experience leading large 1+ year projects or multiple small initiatives
• Must have managed budgets of $2-3+ million
• Experience managing vendors
• Experience managing combination of internal contract and GR resources as part of a delivery team; Project work will be based out of the US but primary location will be Toronto – will have to lead global teams including off-shore global resources, third party vendors, project teams in the US
• Excellent communication
• Ability to work on their own and not need to be led in terms of knowledge; understand processes and procedures and come up to speed and speak the language of the PMO right away
• Very strong interpersonal skills
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to develop project plans, manage individual deadlines and goals.
• Knowledge of project metrics, including gathering, reporting, trend analysis, creation, and metrics.
• Advanced understanding of the SDLC and PMLC, artifacts as deliverables, Waterfall process, etc.
• Ability to identify issues and problems, generate solutions and choose appropriate alternatives using basic root cause analysis.
• Advanced proficiency with all MS Office applications, MS Project and/or Visio.
• Highly organized with good time management skills.
• Customer service orientation and strong interpersonal skills.
• Analytical thinker with creative problem solving skills and attention to detail.
• PMP is desired, not required

 

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