NEW GRAD Junior Project Manager/ Business Analyst

Position Description

We are looking for a passionate, self-driven new graduate or junior professional who is excited to build a career across project management, business analysis, delivery operations, and account planning. This role is ideal for someone who is organized, curious, creative, proactive, and comfortable working with both business and technology teams.

The successful candidate will support delivery leads, project managers, business analysts, and account leadership in managing day-to-day project activities, requirements coordination, stakeholder communication, reporting, risks, action items, and account-level planning activities.

Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $50,000-$80,000. This role is hybrid and requires you to be at our downtown Toronto and/or Client office at a minimum 2 days per week - subject to change at any time.

Your future duties and responsibilities

• Support project managers and delivery leads in tracking project activities, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and action items.
• Assist business analysts in gathering, documenting, and organizing business requirements, process flows, user stories, acceptance criteria, and meeting notes.
• Prepare project status updates, meeting summaries, action item trackers, RAID logs, leadership updates, and client-facing materials.
• Coordinate meetings, agendas, follow-ups, and stakeholder inputs across delivery teams, business teams, and client stakeholders.
• Support intake management by helping review incoming requests, capturing missing information, following up with stakeholders, and tracking progress.
• Assist with capacity planning, resource tracking, team onboarding, role mapping, and project demand visibility.
• Support account planning activities, including maintaining account trackers, opportunity pipelines, client priorities, delivery highlights, case studies, risks, and upcoming demand.
• Help prepare account-level presentations, governance materials, executive updates, proposal inputs, and client discussion notes.
• Work with delivery and account leaders to identify improvement opportunities, automation ideas, reporting enhancements, and process efficiencies.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, project governance meetings, planning sessions, and retrospectives.
• Build strong working relationships with internal teams and client stakeholders through proactive communication and follow-up.
• Bring fresh thinking, creativity, curiosity, and ownership to improve project execution, communication, and account planning practices.
  
  

Required Qualifications To Be Successful In This Role

• Recent graduate or junior professional from Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Management, Project Management, or a related program.
• Academic, internship, co-op, volunteer, project, club, case competition, or personal experience involving coordination, analysis, planning, or stakeholder communication.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to track multiple activities, follow up proactively, and manage details accurately.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to summarize discussions, document actions, and prepare clear updates.
• Basic understanding of project management, business analysis, Agile delivery, requirements gathering, and stakeholder management.
• Comfortable working with tools such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams, SharePoint, Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
• Ability to analyze information, identify gaps, ask relevant questions, and escalate risks or blockers appropriately.
• Interest in account management, client relationship building, delivery governance, consulting, digital transformation, AI, automation, and technology delivery.
• Demonstrated passion through creative work, leadership activities, innovation projects, process improvements, presentations, automation ideas, AI experiments, or self-learning.
• Self-driven, proactive, and comfortable working in ambiguous situations with guidance from senior team members.
• Strong attention to detail, ownership mindset, and willingness to learn quickly.
• Interest in financial services, digital banking, quality engineering, cloud, AI, automation, or enterprise delivery would be an asset.
  
  

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

At CGI, we value the strength that diversity brings and are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone belongs. We collaborate with our clients to build more inclusive communities and empower all CGI partners to thrive. As an equal-opportunity employer, being able to perform your best during the recruitment process is important to us. If you require an accommodation, please inform your recruiter.

That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.

To learn more about accessibility at CGI, contact us via email. Please note that this email is strictly for accessibility requests and cannot be used for application status inquiries.

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