Sr. Business PM to drive BPMO-led Wealth/Insurance operational transformation through governance, planning, executive reporting, and benefits realization -

Sr. Business PM to drive BPMO-led Wealth/Insurance operational transformation through governance, planning, executive reporting, and benefits realization - 2386

Duration: 12 Months

Location: Toronto (3x/Week - Hybrid)

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the planning and delivery of assigned strategic initiatives; navigate ambiguity, identify risks and issues, and drive mitigation across multiple domains.
• Lead integrated project management practices including RAID management, dependency management, change control, and release/readiness planning.
• Develop and maintain executive-level status reporting, dashboards, and materials that provide an integrated view of progress, decisions, risks, and outcomes.
• Lead strategic initiative intake, prioritization support, planning, delivery, and governance in partnership with business and technology stakeholders.
• Partner with stakeholders across the organization to refine the project charter, define the problem-to-solve, and translate objectives into a clear delivery approach and high-level requirements.
• Define milestones, dependencies, assumptions, and resource needs; proactively surface trade-offs and options.
• Establish fit-for-purpose governance and operating cadence (forums, decision logs, escalation paths), ensuring timely decisions and transparent progress.
• Coordinate with leaders to engage the right subject matter experts and maintain role clarity and accountability across workstreams.
• Build strong cross-functional relationships and influence outcomes through facilitation, structured problem solving, and executive-ready communication.
• Support development of initiative-level business cases, including value drivers, costs/effort estimates, and key assumptions - tracks deployment of project budgets across multiple projects, including forecasting, variance analysis, and financial reporting.
• Assess impacts to people, processes, and systems; ensure appropriate consideration of controls, audit practices, risk, and compliance requirements.
• Act as a change leader by supporting stakeholder engagement, communication planning, and adoption/sustainment activities across the delivery lifecycle.
• Contribute to annual planning by consolidating roadmaps, estimates, capacity/resource needs, and key risks across the initiative portfolio.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to shape strategic and operational plans, ensuring initiatives remain aligned to business value and organizational strategy.
• Drive benefits realization practices: define expected outcomes, establish baseline metrics, track delivery against targets, and support post-implementation reviews.
• Promote continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to simplify governance, improve delivery discipline, and leverage automation and best practices.
• Advises and coaches PMs on practical implementation of PMO practices and standards.

Must Haves:

• 15+ years of experience in program/project management, and/or business transformation (financial services/operations experience)
• Post-secondary degree or equivalent combination of education and experience; PMP, PgMP, PRINCE2, Lean/Six Sigma, or Agile certification(s) are assets.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence as a senior individual contributor, facilitating alignment and decisions across diverse stakeholders
• Strong governance and delivery discipline: scope, schedule, dependency, risk/issue, and change management.
• Excellent communication skills with experience creating executive-ready updates, presentations, and concise written recommendations.
• Analytical and metrics-oriented; able to define outcomes, establish baselines, and track benefits/OKRs/KPIs.
• Agile mindset with a demonstrated ability to work through ambiguity and manage multiple time-sensitive concurrent deliverables.
• Credibility to build trusted relationships across businesses and functions, provide sound advice, and challenge constructively.
• Understanding of technology-enabled change and the impacts to operations, customers, and advisors.
• Advanced proficiency with Office 365 applications (e.g., PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, SharePoint); experience with reporting/dashboard tools