Job Description

What will you do?

• Plans and executes projects of various levels of complexity throughout the entire project life cycle from ideation to post-implementation review, including managing project scope, requirements changes, multiple and competing demands and priorities as well as determining and conveying impact on budget, time and risk using appropriate fact-based metrics / assumptions.
• Proactively identifying, monitoring, and managing the project risks & issues arisen during the project life cycle, and escalate appropriately where needed, to ensure the project remains on track for meetings its objectives on time and under budget.
• Works with Business/Technology Owners to ensure that the deliverables achieve the business result that enables value creation based on the commitments of the strategic commitments of the CFO Portfolio holistically
• Develops integrated baseline project plans applying estimated models (MS Project Plan); documents estimating assumptions, refines plans and manages performance against them.
• Determines quality standards and oversees the execution / production of management documents.
• Facilitates schedule and cost forecasting
• Sets up appropriate governance and oversight of all projects and ensures that appropriate project artifacts are being maintained to meet project management standards and audit requirements
• Oversees project closure initiatives. Ensures projects follow established standards including delivery life cycle methods, and meets audit requirements.
• Timely engagement with RBC specific regulatory, compliance, finance, operational risk, supplier management, and other specific local or enterprise wide business processes , as determined by financial implications of the project’s costs, and the specific impacts of the change being introduced by the project
• Facilitate Project Sponsor awareness of internal factors affecting Organizational Change that need to be planned for and managed accordingly based on degree of change being introduced into the organization by the project

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• College Diploma or Undergraduate Degree (Business, Finance, Accounting, Arts)
• 5+ years progressive project-related experience including managing high complexity projects (benefit/cost)
• PMP certified or equivalent demonstrating proven and advanced project management knowledge including plan development; scheduling methodology; project metrics gathering, analyzing, and reporting; risk and issue assessment and quantification methodologies; cost/benefit analysis and alternatives identification; budgeting, financials and benefits management.
• Intermediate knowledge of organizational change management
• Intermediate to advanced use of MS Project Plan to ensure a detailed project plan incorporating dependencies and portfolio inter-dependencies
• Intermediate to advanced use of MS PowerPoint to create Executive Steering Committee or other project-related presentation materials
• Possesses advanced knowledge of SDLC and Agile delivery methodologies

Nice-to-have

• CA or CPA designation
• Finance / accounting working experience
• IT, BA, QA, or other Project Management related experiences

Job Summary

The Senior Manager, Project Management, Strategic Initiatives and Change Management (SICM), CFO Group will be responsible for planning, directing, and coordinating activities of assigned projects to ensure project goals or objectives are accomplished within approved timeframe, scope and budget. Additionally this role will support the organizational change management required in support of the adoption of the initiatives as appropriate. As the Senior Project Manager, the appropriate candidate will be responsible to manage initiatives with a moderate to high level of complexity, projected value inclusive of cost and benefits within a portfolio of initiatives reporting directly to the Senior Program Director.