Project Manager

IFDS Group


Date: 21 hours ago
City: Toronto, ON
Contract type: Full time

Project Manager



Employment Type: Permanent
Address
30 Adelaide Str, East
Toronto, Ontario, M5C 3G9
Canada

Who we are

With its global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, International Financial Data Services (IFDS) is a world-leading provider of outsourcing and technology solutions to the financial services industry. IFDS services over 240 financial organizations around the world, providing solutions to a wide range of global asset managers, wealth managers, banks, and insurance companies. With employees and partners located throughout Canada, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, the IFDS enterprise supports more than 17 million accounts with AUA of approximately CAD $4 trillion. IFDS Canada, Ireland, and Luxembourg are 50/50 joint ventures between Boston-based State Street Corporation, one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, and Connecticut-based SS&C Technologies, a global provider of investment and financial software-enabled services and software for the global financial services and healthcare industries.

Imagine yourself at IFDS
Come experience a community like no other at International Financial Data Services (IFDS). We offer work opportunities driven by a passion for creating market leading financial solutions, and a culture that nurtures collaboration, accountability, diversity & inclusion, and continuous learning. We’ll provide you with opportunities to develop your career. From ongoing training and development programs to experiences working with our global financial services partners, you’ll be able to realize your full potential.

Role Overview

The Project Manager is responsible for the overall delivery of solutions that meet the joint requirements of the customer's specification and the proposal submitted by IFDS. Under general supervision, this position is required to lead medium sized projects with, moderate complexity and risk for both International Financial Data Services (IFDS) and its clients from inception through completion.

The role is to provide leadership for multiple projects operating within a matrix organization which may include geographically distributed teams. The role requires working experience in scrum and waterfall methodologies and is responsible for managing project governance and adherence to defined agile/waterfall practices at IFDS.

Specific governance accountabilities include definition and maintenance of project schedules, budget tracking, status reporting, risk and issue logs management, ITIL based change management, client communications, department/enterprise/offshore co-ordination, and SCRUM elements (stand-ups, backlog grooming, estimation, productivity metrics and retrospectives).

Role Responsibilities

  • Schedule project activities ensuring that projects are completed on time and within budget constraints
  • Act as the primary liaison between project team, IT and the client. ls required to work, collaborate and communicate effectively with senior management, stakeholders, vendors and client partners, with support from the portfolio director
  • Coordinate all aspects of project delivery including scope management, backlog management, backlog refinement, estimation, budget, sprint planning, change requests...etc.
  • Maintain regular communications via accurate, clear and concise project status reports with clients, relationship management, business stakeholders and the product owner (PO) with support from the portfolio director
  • Facilitate scrum ceremonies through project life cycle - backlog creation & grooming, sprint planning, stand ups, product demo and retrospective
  • Maintain work management software (MSP/Jira/ SharePoint/ Clarity etc.) to reflect the current status of execution. Ensure agile project governance is adhered to, including velocity, commitment adherence, burn-down along with release prediction etc.
  • Proactively identify, quantify, mitigate, and manage project risks and issues with support from the portfolio director
  • Work closely with resource and functional managers to ensure each project is properly staffed
  • Build a high-performance team including conflict resolution, and providing feedback on individual performance to functional managers with support from the portfolio director
  • Act as a coach / mentor to the project team members to evangelize and implement the agile practices with support from the portfolio director
  • Work with the PM practice team to recommend and participate in process/ continuous improvements.


Minimum Qualifications

  • You are a leader.
  • Has a minimum of 5 years of project management experience; of which at least 1 year in delivering with agile methodology like Scrum or SAFe.
  • Has led multiple, concurrent medium sized system development projects, with mid-level complexity and risk. These projects are typically under 1500 days of effort and/ or have teams of 15-25 resources.
  • Has working knowledge of project management methodology including plan development, scheduling, project reporting, risk and issue assessment, budgeting, and ability to deliver results.
  • Detail oriented with good analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to manage situations where information is difficult to obtain, complex or ambiguous.
  • Strong organizational, leadership, decision making and facilitation skills.

Nice to Have:

  • Knowledge of financial services industry.
  • Experience working for an IT vendor in a client facing role.
  • University degree in related field considered an asset.
  • PMI/Scrum Master certification considered an asset.

AODA Statement

IFDS Canada encourages applications from all qualified individuals. Applicants with disabilities may notify us of any accommodation needed to support your participation in the recruitment process. We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying. Please be aware that only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted for this position.

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