Senior IT Project Manager (AML)

Work arrangement

• The role is hybrid and requires attendance at the downtown Toronto office and/or client office at least four days per week; this may change.

Role summary

Duties

• Maintain project oversight and governance, ensure adherence to PMO standards, and link projects to strategy and performance management KPIs.
• Drive projects from initiation through planning and execution to closure.
• Facilitate risk management and escalate risks, issues, impediments, and dependencies.
• Work with IT development teams on functional delivery across the functions.
• Gather, manage, communicate, and maintain project requirements; conduct stakeholder analysis and effort estimation.
• Coordinate UAT for new software in isolated system simulations.
• Identify current and potential gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Schedule stakeholder and business-user meetings for status updates, and track schedules and resources.
• Provide timely project status updates to business and senior management.

Required qualifications

• University degree and/or equivalent work experience.
• Excellent business communication and stakeholder management skills; broad knowledge of investment banking environments.
• Strong organization, project management, and time management capabilities.
• 8+ years and strong understanding of the technology and/or financial services industry.
• Scrum and/or PMP.
• Experience managing large projects across multiple user groups.

Nice to have

• Prior background in requirements analysis and/or hands-on development is a plus.
• Requirements elicitation techniques such as document analysis, interviews, facilitated workshops, observation, prototyping, focus groups, and surveys are nice to have.
• MS Office Suite, Jira, Confluence, Tableau, requirements analysis and documentation, and requirements management and communication are nice to have.

Compensation

• The estimated pay range is $100,000–$150,000; the posting does not specify the pay cadence.