Project Manager II

Work Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hours: 37.5

Line of Business: Enterprise Enabling Functions

Pay Details: $91,200 - $136,800 CAD

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Job Description

The Global Fixed Income (GFI) market making business strives to ensure their clients reach their capital-raising and investment objectives. GFI's accomplished team, highly regarded research and analytical resources and strong understanding of Global Markets and their specific client's needs allows them to offer versatile solutions, global access and excellent execution.

The GFI Strategy Delivery team is mandated to provide leadership for the end-to-end delivery of TDS's GFI Strategy. The group is accountable for defining product roadmap(s) across all GFI's business lines and ultimate delivery against milestones on those product journeys. The group will also be instrumental in supporting with the integration of the firm's new acquisitions and expanding their respective platform/products across the broader GFI business.

The team partners closely with stakeholder groups from across TD Securities including Front Office, Technology, Compliance, Finance and Accounting, Credit and Market Risk and Model Development, and Treasury and Balance Sheet Management.

The GFI Strategy Project Management Lead will be supporting the team PDLs in the delivery and management of strategic projects which have been prioritized within GFI. This will involve:

• Accountability for leading the end-to-end delivery across all business and technology aspects of the project with a delivery operating model to maximize efficiency, effectiveness, and scalability.
• Responsible for key delivery decisions (including assessment of multiple stakeholders) and aligning technology and business objectives into a shared delivery vision.
• Facilitating the breaking down of project vision and roadmap into component parts that can be executed through Rapid, TD Agile PDLC delivery approaches as appropriate.
• Providing leadership to technology and business partners to turn requirements into delivery with analyses and recommendations for solutions that meet business objectives within a timely and cost-effective manner.
• Establishing and managing resource plan, issues, risks and financial plans to support the roadmap.
• Anticipating issues, trends and the potential impact and timely resolution of impediments, while effectively managing the program schedule (releases) and financials and ensuring continuing review and prioritization.
• Coordinating with the respective enterprise control partners (e.g., EPDE, Strategic Sourcing Group, Legal, TRMIS, OCDO, etc.) to appropriately select, engage and manage external service providers as required.
• Staying energized, productive, and focused in the face of challenges, ambiguity, change, or strenuous demands.
• Demonstrated ability to consistently apply expert judgment with available information when proposing solutions/recommendations.
• Demonstrated ability to formulate cohesive recommendations regarding delivery approach after consultation with key stakeholder groups on estimated effort, resource availability, cross-program dependencies, and other implementation constraints.
• Ability to create and foster a cohesive team and promote a positive work environment for all employees.
• Ability to think strategically and possess strong business acumen.
• Proven ability to stay focused under pressure, demonstrating resilience in challenging situations.
• Ability to clearly communicate complex financial concepts and garner consensus on implementation methodology from all key stakeholders.
• Ability to progress on multiple priorities concurrently while navigating unfamiliar territory and ambiguous/evolving circumstances.
• Aptitude for amalgamating and interpreting large volumes of information, identifying key clarifications required, and formulating next steps to proceed.
• Building trust with stakeholder groups and maintain good working relationship with other departments.
• Leading an effective and diverse business team to effectively deliver productivity, quality, and innovation.

Job Requirements

• Knowledge of project delivery methodologies (including PDLC and TD Agile scaling frameworks).
• Strong working knowledge of project management techniques and tools including Microsoft Project, JIRA, and Confluence.
• Knowledge of the end-to-end Global Fixed Income business.
• Knowledge of Global Markets.
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements.
• Ability to apply industry frameworks and techniques.
• Passion to succeed, results-oriented.
• Flexible, with an innate ability to 'course correct'.
• Adaptive communication skills.
• Ability to build and motivate teams.
• High threshold dealing with ambiguity.
• Entrepreneurial mindset.
• Drive for continuous improvement.
• Ability to influence all parties while driving delivery forward.
• Prior experience with delivering major regulatory programs and/or infrastructure implementations is an asset.
• In-depth familiarity with market risk, valuation, data science or accounting concepts obtained through previous experience in a capital markets function.
• High level understanding of financial products and models.
• Prior experience with delivering major regulatory programs and/or infrastructure implementations is an asset.

Who We Are: TD Securities offers a wide range of capital markets products and services to corporate, government, and institutional clients who choose us for our innovation, execution, and experience. Our services include underwriting and distributing new issues, providing trusted advice and industry-leading insight, extending access to global markets, and delivering integrated transaction banking solutions. We are growth-oriented, people-focused, and community-minded. As a team, we work to deliver value for our clients every day.

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