Project Control Officer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Validate project time entries and WBS task descriptions; update MS Project plans weekly and prepare monthly time-summary rollups.
• Organize project contracts, accounting summaries, change requests, statements of work, and proposal documents and approvals.
• Track portfolio actions, risks, resource service orders, recruitment coordination, resource forecasts, and budget reports.
• Maintain project deliverables, closure checklists, required documentation, client approvals, status reports, and meeting minutes.
• Coordinate engagement setup, resource assignments, time reports, adjustments, meetings, distribution lists, and action-item follow-up.
• Support onboarding and offboarding, Scrum Masters' Jira setup, project audits, and project documentation needs.
• Consolidate lessons learned and sprint retrospectives, identify trends and actions, and track resolution.
• Support marketing and business development campaigns and use AI tools to improve productivity and processes.

Required qualifications

• Post-secondary education in Business Administration or a related field.
• 1–2 years of related experience supporting project managers in a consulting or IT department.
• Solid understanding of MS Office 365, including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio, and Project.
• Experience with invoicing processes in a consulting or project-related environment.
• Strong written and verbal English communication and the ability to prioritize requests against client timelines.
• Able to work collaboratively, plan and improve processes, and maintain attention to detail.

Desired qualifications and tools

• CAPM certification is desired.
• General knowledge of accounting, project management, PeopleSoft, or process management is an asset.
• The role references Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Visio, and other MS Office products.

Compensation

• CGI provides an estimated pay range of $55,000–$105,000; no compensation cadence is specified.