Project Manager (18 Month Contract)
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About the Role
TMX Group is seeking a Project Manager for an 18-month contract to deliver complex, high-impact initiatives within a systemically important clearing house platform.
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Responsibilities
- Lead full lifecycle planning, delivery, and execution of projects using TMX standards and best practices
- Collaborate with product lead to define project scope and identify key success metrics
- Determine resource requirements (time, budget, equipment) in conjunction with relevant teams
- Develop, implement, and monitor comprehensive project plan detailing scope, schedule, costs, communications, resources, dependencies, and risks/issues
- Track project budget, scope, and timelines closely
- Ensure resources deliver on time and at expected quality; track progress and manage remediation
- Manage variances, including re estimating project efforts and costs at appropriate stages
- Obtain timely approvals for revisions using standard change request processes
- Ensure all project information is properly documented, approved, and centrally stored
- Provide regular project status and steering committee reporting according to TMX standards
- Enforce adherence to established tools, standards, and processes
- Recommend continuous improvements to tools, standards, and processes
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience delivering on business driven initiatives
- Ability to navigate and deliver within a fully matrixed environment that is complex and somewhat ambiguous
- Demonstrated leadership, with ability to motivate and effectively manage teams
- Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Excellent written and verbal communications
- Experience with end to end project delivery (managing both business and IT phases) of projects
- Excellent relationship building abilities
- Prior experience working with regulators and external clients
- Fluency in both French and English (written and spoken)
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Project Manager (18 Month Contract)
- The CDCC project manager delivers high quality project management services to execute complex, high impact initiatives across software development (SDLC), infrastructure, and third party integrations.
- Operating within a systemically important clearing house platform, our project managers navigate a highly regulated financial market overseen by the Bank of Canada, the AMF, and the OSC.
- This role is hybrid 4 days/week in the office based in Montreal, Qc.
Key Accountabilities
- Collaborate with the product lead to define project scope and identify key success metrics.
- Determine resource requirements (time, budget, equipment, etc.) in conjunction with relevant teams.
- Develop, implement, and monitor a comprehensive project plan detailing scope, schedule, costs, communications, resources, dependencies, and risks/issues.
- Closely track project budget, scope, and timelines.
- Ensure resources dedicated to a project deliver on time and at the level of quality expected. Track progress and efforts spent and ensure managers execute remediation when availability or other commitments are not met
- Manage variances, including re estimating project efforts and costs at appropriate stages.
- Obtain timely approvals for revisions using standard project change request processes.
- Ensure all project information is properly documented, approved, and centrally stored.
- Provide regular project status and steering committee reporting according to TMX standards
- Enforce adherence to established tools, standards, and processes by Project Managers.
- Recommend continuous improvements to tools, standards, and processes.
Must Have(s)
- 5 + years of experience delivering on business driven initiatives
- Ability to successfully navigate and deliver within a fully matrixed environment that is complex and somewhat ambiguous.
- Demonstrated leadership, with the ability to motivate and effectively manage teams
- Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Excellent written and verbal communications
- Experience with end to end project delivery (includes managing both the business and IT phases of a project) of projects for small as well as large projects.
- Excellent relationship building abilities and understanding that partnership is key to successful delivery
- Prior experience working with regulators and external clients
- Fluency in both French and English (written and spoken) is required, as this role involves regular interaction with partners and stakeholders in both languages
Nice To Have
- University/undergraduate degree in related discipline or equivalent PM work experience within the financial services industry
- PMP certification or Masters in Project Management
- Prior experience working with Bank of Canada
- Prior experience using Workday as a PPM
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