Sr. Project Manager - 55084

Business Unit: TDS Global Operations

Duration: 18 months

Extension possible: Yes

Interview Process: 2 rounds Virtual ( in person possible )

Work Location: Hybrid 2 days a week in office maybe more TD Centre - North - 77 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario

CANDIDATE PROFILE DETAILS:

Degree/Certifications Required: Scrum / MBA ideally

Years of experience: 5+ yrs

Reason for request/why opened: New project

% Interaction with Stakeholders: 80%

Project Scope: Project US treasury

Team Size: 7 ppl

Selling Points of Position: Working within a leading FI organization

Background :

US Treasury , back office exp , client reference data , settlements confirmation

Banking on the dealer side

SUMMARY OF DAY TO DAY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Day to day can differ depending on the stage of the project my team is working in.

For Requirements, it’s a lot of collecting data from stakeholders, coordinating and formalizing requirements and getting signoff

For Dev, its working with tech, running meetings

For Test, its writing test cases and running testing.

Roll out, its putting together documentation, procedures training for BAU team etc

Hosting recurring meetings with all stakeholder to get updates and track and doing data analysis to make some informed decisions.

• Manages projects with moderate to high regulatory oversight

• Work in close partnership with all project stakeholders to align plans, timelines, expectations and deliverables to meet project's objectives.

• Use negotiation and influencing skills to build consensus amongst diverse stakeholder groups to ensure project deliverables are met

• Ensure projects are delivered based on agreed scope, agreed timeline and approved budget

• Manage resolution of issues and risks effectively and if required ensures timely escalation of the issues and risks

• Communicates effectively project status communication to stakeholders

• Manage project financials, including monthly variance analysis, program benefits and on-going costs

• Create and maintain comprehensive project management artifacts in compliance with Change Delivery methodologies, in alignment with waterfall, rapid, Agile and Agile delivery practices.

• Considered as a subject matter expert on practices, procedures and principles of project management

• Manage initiatives through to completion including Planning, Execution, Control and Closure of initiatives.

• Exercise discretion in managing correspondence and information, escalating issues where appropriate

• Manage communications to: Program Delivery Leadership team, impacted stakeholders and Control Partners

• Coordinates with the respective enterprise control partners (e.g., EPDE, Strategic Sourcing Group, Legal, TRMIS, OCDO. etc.) to appropriately select, engage and manage external service providers as required

• Leads a large diverse business team to effectively deliver scope and quality in an initiative

• Manage initiatives through to completion including Planning, Execution, Control and Closure

• Part of a team working primarily on global change projects in the financial industry.

MUST HAVE:

1.) US Treasury

2.) Project exp ( PMLC )

3.) Data analysis

4.) Requirements gathering

NICE TO HAVE

1.) Jira

2.) Scrum

3.) Testing UAT

4.) SQL