Project Manager

Job Title: Project Manager

Location Address: Downtown, Toronto (Hybrid )

Contract Duration: 6 months

Possibility of Extension & Conversion to FTE

Story Behind the Need

Business group: Business group: Global Finance Optimization - represent finance initiatives from business side, partner with technology with finance initiatives, is the projects group for finance. The PM is Responsible for managing and/or supporting the successful rollout of Global Finance Optimization (GFO) team initiatives and/or solutions.

Typical Day in Role:

• Assess current Finance processes to identify internal control weakness and opportunities to improve process efficiencies
• Present recommendations/solutions to management including analysis of business processes, development of hypothesis, synthesized findings, and opportunities for improvement
• Lead all aspects of diagnostic, design and implementation stages by working within cross-functional teams and facilitating working sessions and support target business groups to implement and operationalize initiatives
• Participate in the design of 'To-Be' process flows and provide support on the rollout
• Accountability for alignment of business processes/requirements with different workstreams
• Managing the work assignments and deliverables of business analysts
• Support and oversight of testing strategy, test cases and results
• Leverage various methodologies (e.g. Six Sigma, lean) and best practices within the industry to design a 'To-Be' process and strategy that balances customer experience, efficiency and effectiveness
• Manage and support change management activities including stakeholder communications and user training
• Practical project management knowledge (e.g. Agile) and experience working on projects that follow the software development life cycles (SDLC) would be an asset.
• Engage and/or participate in continuous interaction with Project Sponsors and Leads within Global
• Finance to ensure a clear understanding of their objectives and requirements.
• Ensure that solutions proposed, plans and initiatives are supported in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.
• Other ad-hoc responsibilities as assigned.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 2+ years of experience as PM in Financial Services industry
• Demonstrated experience in creating process flows and process mapping
• Experience working on project lifecycle from beginning to end
• 1+ years of experience with UAT
• Strong knowledge of computer software, such as MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Project, Visio etc. and PowerBI - candidate must be tech-savvy
• SharePoint and JIRA