Project Manager 3

About Symcor

Symcor enables secure data exchanges and supporting business processes, to help clients succeed in an evolving digital world. Trusted by Canada's largest institutions for over 25 years to support their digital transformations, Symcor aligns industry participants to solve common challenges in the most effective and efficient way. Our goal is for every employee to feel valued and accepted as part of the team and connected to Symcor and our values, fostering a sense of belonging. Symcor is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing an accessible recruitment process.  If you need accommodation for the interview process, just let us know! 
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The Opportunity

The Project Manager 3 is responsible for the comprehensive management of designated IT projects within the COR.IQ Project Portfolio. They are tasked with ensuring the successful completion of numerous complex projects simultaneously. This role oversees project parameters including scope, budget, expenses, schedule, and team resources to maintain alignment with approved project outlines. It involves documenting, reporting, and addressing any deviations from the plan while proposing potential solutions, which includes collaborating with the team to foresee and navigate project challenges and obstacles, bringing unresolved issues or risks to senior management's attention. Additionally, this position provides guidance and mentorship to team members in their daily tasks.

About The Role:

• Manage larger, complex projects or strategic initiatives, new products or services, ensuring projects are delivered on time and on budget, and meet scope requirements. Keep track of dependent projects, and coordinate activities, if required. May be required to act as a Program Manager for a group of interdependent projects by facilitating meetings or discussions.
• Ensure all key stakeholders are kept in the loop via formal and informal communication channels on project related progress.
• Facilitate team meetings to communicate progress, status, issues, risks, assignments and urgency.
• Coordinate complex technical, system and process audits on client and internal engagements.
• Responsible for managing client and executive communication.
• Prepare, contribute to, and deliver client presentations concerning project scope, timeline, activities, issues, risks, budget and progress as required.
• Assist or support document preparation, which may include; Statements of Work, proposals, contracts, estimates, requirements analysis, and technical audits.
• If services of an external vendor is being leverages on a said program, work with ITVM group to establish ROE and actively manage the vendor from a delivery perspective
• Participate in post-project reviews.
• Oversee, mentor and coach PM1, PM2, PCO working on assigned, dependent projects. Oversee and ensure project level reporting is conducted in accordance with Symcor standards and timelines, including ensuring PM’s complete and submit weekly Project Status Reports (PSR) to the EPO/Program Manager, participating in project execution, Joint Steering Committee and Executive Steering Committee meetings, and providing program/project updates to clients, and other status updates, as requested, in support of executive reporting.
• Review of resource assignments and forecast, and updated project demand, while managing impact of changes in forecast. Highlight areas of concerns, major variances to project plan, identify options and propose recommendations to address the same.
• Create Project Status Report and submit to EPO/Program Manager
• Provide project updates to clients, and work with vendors to receive their updates.
• Provide other status updates, as requested, in support of executive reporting.
• Maintain an up-to-date view of the project resource plan, including highlighting any areas of concerns, and the impact to project deliverables to ensure timelines and budget requirements are met. Monitor and adjust project resource plan and schedule as required
• Work closely with Front Office Technical Consultant to ensure due diligence activities and outcomes are documented and in line with the project business objectives at the beginning of each project. Provide input regarding the implementation approach and PM effort estimates.
• Assist with requirements gathering and scope definition, notional timeline and estimate gathering.
• Taking a lead in the creation of the Portfolio investment plan and quarterly refresh of the investment plan.

What You Need to Succeed:

Education:

• College diploma or undergraduate university degree in a related discipline or a combination of experience, education and/or training deemed to be equivalent.
• PMP/Prince2 Designation or equivalent is preferred.

Experience:

• Must have 7+ years of IT Project Management experience.
• Preferred 5+ years of IT experience in any of the following areas: Development, Support, Testing, Project Management, IT Maintenance or Business Analysis.
• Experience within the fraud, payments, financial space is preferred.

Skills:

• Expert knowledge of the Project Management Institute’s approach to Project Management
• Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle.
• Strong Communication Skills at varying levels of the organization.
• Experience with Agile methodologies; Scrum Master certification nice to have.

What’s In It For You
 

At Symcor, we define our success by what we help others achieve. We were created to support our clients and, through our products, services, and solutions, protect and strengthen their brands. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program that includes a competitive compensation package, flexible benefits and time away options, retirement and savings plans and a commitment to your overall health and well-being through our myWell-being program.
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities.
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.
• Opportunities to do challenging work and progressively take on greater accountabilities for growth.
• We foster an inclusive atmosphere of One Symcor with our philosophy of +1 Unique You®, we harness each employee’s uniqueness, different skills, backgrounds, and perspectives to contribute to mutual success. It is the diversity of our people and the inclusive environment that has been and will always be key to Symcor’s success.

Symcor is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing an accessible recruitment process. Upon request, we will provide accommodation for candidates.