Senior Project Manager

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Senior Project Manager

@ CGI

Position Description:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead strategic initiatives within the financial services sector. This role involves managing complex, cross-functional projects with enterprise-wide impact, ensuring alignment between business goals and technology delivery. You will work closely with stakeholders across departments, including business teams, IT, support services, and senior leadership, to drive successful outcomes.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end project delivery, managing scope, timelines, budgets, and resources.
• Establish and maintain project governance, ensuring stakeholder engagement and accountability.
• Facilitate planning sessions, status updates, and decision-making forums with sponsors and steering committees.
• Oversee risk and issue management, change control, and project documentation.
• Coordinate with internal teams and external vendors to ensure timely and quality delivery.
• Provide clear and consistent reporting to senior leadership on project health and progress.
• Support operational alignment and process improvements across business units.
• Ensure project outcomes meet business objectives and compliance standards.

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Qualifications:

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• Provide strong overall leadership to project team members and acts as an effective project manager who leads the project team towards the overall success of the project.  
• Leverage project team members and business data stewards, to plan and deliver guidelines and operational processes, and partner with technology and business on project deliverables to improve data quality and use.
• Establish and oversee the implementation of project governance for the data related projects, ensuring that teams and committees are adequately involved.
• Coordinate data governance sessions and work with individuals to ensure effective implementation and ongoing data governance management.
• Demonstrate full project ownership by managing project scope, timeline, and budget within agreed tolerances throughout the lifecycle of the project. 
• Create and adjust project plans in consultation with all stakeholders as required to meet objectives, and manages trade-offs between scope, quality, time and cost as necessary. 
• Provide timely project reporting for senior management including project status, plans, operational reports, and ad-hoc reporting.
• Facilitate change management and decision making by Project Sponsor or Steering Committee by presenting information and options for the way forward. 
• Produce project risk management plans to identify, assess and mitigate project risks. 
• Arrange the distribution of work within the company and to external contractors, provide instructions, advice and direction to project team members. 
• Ensure project deliverables meet stated requirements, are delivered to the required standard of quality and within the specified constraints of time and cost. 
• Work closely with the project team and other stakeholders to adhere to project change control policies, procedures, and practices for management of scope, notifying stakeholders of scope change, delays, and significant variances against budget, and prepare supporting documentation (PCR) for approval when required. 
• Function with a high degree of independence, exercises sound judgment and discretion in making decisions, manage resources and coordinate activities in a cross-team environment. 
• Proactively identify potential risks and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed. Manage Risk and Issue logs.
• Other duties and projects as assigned

Preferred Skill /Experience

• Bilingual(French and English) communications skills, written and verbal.
• Experience in the financial sector.

Skills:

• Credit Unions
• Finance & Accounting

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How to Apply:

Apply online at: https://www.cgi.com/en/careers 

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