Senior Project Manager
- Toronto, ON, Canada
$80 to $90 CAD / hour · Contract
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- $80 to $90 CAD / hour
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Original job description
Senior Project Manager
We’re seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead complex business and technology initiatives within a financial services environment.
In this role, you’ll guide cross-functional projects from planning through delivery, partnering with business and technology teams to improve processes, products, systems, and operational capabilities.
What you’ll do
- Lead project planning, execution, and delivery across multiple workstreams.
- Manage scope, schedules, budgets, resources, dependencies, risks, and issues.
- Coordinate stakeholders across business, product, technology, operations, and control functions.
- Establish project governance, reporting, and communication practices.
- Facilitate decisions, resolve delivery challenges, and keep initiatives moving forward.
- Support readiness and adoption of new processes, systems, and capabilities.
What we’re looking for
- Significant experience leading complex business and technology projects.
- Experience in financial services; exposure to payments or related products is an asset.
- A track record of coordinating cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment.
- Strong project planning, financial management, risk management, and governance skills.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, and problem-solving abilities.
- Experience with technology modernization or business transformation initiatives.
- PMP certification or equivalent project management experience is preferred.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Lead complex business and technology initiatives from planning through delivery, managing workstreams, scope, schedules, budgets, resources, dependencies, risks, and issues. Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders, establish governance and reporting, facilitate decisions, resolve delivery challenges, and support readiness and adoption of new capabilities.
Requirements
Significant experience leading complex business and technology projects, coordinating cross-functional teams in matrixed environments, and managing planning, finances, risks, and governance is expected. Financial services experience and exposure to payments are assets; strong communication and problem-solving abilities are required, while PMP certification or equivalent experience is preferred.
Skills
- Project Planning
- Project Execution
- Project Delivery
- Scope Management
- Schedule Management
- Budget Management
- Resource Management
- Risk Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Project Governance
- Communication
- Facilitation
- Problem-Solving
- Financial Management
- Business Transformation
- Technology Modernization
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Categories
- Management & Leadership
- Finance & Accounting
- Technology
- Consulting
Keywords
- Financial Services
- Payments
- Project Management
- Business Projects
- Technology Projects
- Cross-Functional Teams
- Matrixed Environment
- Project Planning
- Project Execution
- Project Delivery
- Workstreams
- Scope Management
- Schedule Management
- Budget Management
- Resource Management
- Dependency Management
- Risk Management
- Issue Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Project Governance
- Reporting
- Communication
- Facilitation
- Process Improvement
- Technology Modernization
- Business Transformation
- Readiness
- Adoption
- PMP