Project Manager III
Role Overview
A leading Canadian wealth management and financial services organization is seeking a Senior Project Manager for its Project Management Office.
The role leads complex enterprise-wide initiatives in a regulated environment.
Initiatives may span business transformation, enterprise applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, regulatory work, and operational improvement.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
A leading Canadian wealth management and financial services organization is seeking a Senior Project Manager for its Project Management Office.
The role leads complex enterprise-wide initiatives in a regulated environment.
Initiatives may span business transformation, enterprise applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, regulatory work, and operational improvement.
Responsibilities
- Lead delivery of enterprise-wide projects from initiation through execution, implementation, and post-project review.
- Manage plans, budgets, timelines, resources, and quality assurance.
- Lead executive stakeholder engagement, governance committees, and cross-functional teams.
- Establish project governance and manage risks, issues, change control, and compliance.
- Manage vendor relationships, contractual obligations, and service levels.
- Support organizational change, stakeholder adoption, communications, training, and readiness.
- Use Agile and Waterfall methods to deliver measurable business outcomes.
Required skills and experience
- 10+ years of progressive project management experience leading large-scale, cross-functional enterprise initiatives.
- Experience delivering business transformation, enterprise modernization, enterprise applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, regulatory, or operational improvement programs.
- Experience with project plans, budgets, timelines, resource strategies, and quality assurance.
- Experience leading executive stakeholders, governance committees, and cross-functional teams.
- Experience in governance, risk and issue management, change control, compliance, vendor management, and organizational change activities.
- Demonstrated experience using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
- Experience with JIRA, Confluence, enterprise project management tools, and ITIL-based environments.
- Strong communication, leadership, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
- PMP certification is required. PMI-ACP, SAFe, PRINCE2, Prosci, or ACMP certifications are strong assets.
Desired experience
- Wealth management, banking, capital markets, or financial services project experience is desired.
- Experience with platform modernization, wealth management technology, or enterprise transformation is desired.
- Exposure to advisor platforms, client servicing technologies, digital enablement, or operational transformation is desired.
- Experience across multiple business units, geographic regions, or technology platforms is desired.
- An advanced degree in Business, Technology, or a related field is an asset.
Contract
- Contract duration is 12 months.
Work model
- Hybrid work model with 2–3 days on-site in Vancouver.
Compensation
- The posting describes a competitive hourly rate but does not state an amount.
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