Sr. IT PM with experience with Wealth and Finance functions to support our insurance clients technology PMO. - 5335

Sr. IT PM with experience with Wealth and Finance functions to support our insurance clients technology PMO. - 5335

Duration: 24 Months (FTE Conversion will be offered on completion)

Location: Toronto (Hybrid, 3x/week)

Overview:

• Accountable for ensuring the successful end to end delivery of projects within our internal IT application and project delivery frameworks.
• Sets up projects, resources, financials and schedule, proactively flagging variances that may jeopardize delivery.
• Works effectively with limited supervision across external parties, cross-organization stakeholders and business partners to keep the project team on track, motivated and engaged.
• Develops detailed project plans, stakeholder matrix, RAID logs, cut over plans and financial summaries.
• Work with third party vendors to develop integrated project plans, ensuring vendors meet deliverables on schedule and budget.
• Proactively works to resolve issues and remove roadblocks across project teams, proactively identifies potential issues before negatively impacting the project.
• Confidently leads and facilitates project meetings/scrums ensuring a high degree of communication and documentation are provided; meeting materials, distribute meeting minutes, update program scorecards.
• Develops presentations and dashboards for a variety of audiences (Executives, Operations, Core Teams, etc.) to show schedule, financials and resources consumption (e.g. Burn Rates, slippage, etc.)
• Conducts post implementation reviews.
• Efficiently communicates to stakeholders to manage expectations and project progress.
• Ensures project documentation is up to date for all Business and technology documents (kick off, Charters, change management, implementation/cut over plans, decommissioning activities etc.).
• Manages IT risk by ensuring consistency with company methodologies, IT cyber and risk controls, standards and financial reporting
• Working with internal security, risk and compliance to ensure the necessary assessments are created, reviewed, and monitored and proactively addressed in a timely fashion.
• Ensures projects are setup and tracked in our internal system monitoring resource usage against budget allocations.
• Develops initial project budget and ensures proper mechanisms are in place to manage project change and associated costs proactively.
• Identifies and documents scope changes for change request documentation and approval management.
• Proactively participates and attends internal community of practice events and sessions.
• Be adaptable to the change and be Change Champion!
• Maintains professional certifications.

Must Haves:

• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in project management, leading software implementations.
• Minimum of 5 years’ experience managing projects involving integrations, data migration, or complex technical landscapes.
• Experience with Wealth and Finance functions
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Desired qualifications:

• PMP certified
• Experience with different PM planning tools