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Maarut; Montreal; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Maarut in Montreal seeks a senior Business Project Manager to lead cross-functional financial-domain projects with full ownership of plans, budgets, and schedules.

The role emphasizes business project management and requires coordinating with sponsors, IT teams, and external vendors to ensure delivery and risk management across the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Senior and versatile business-project manager with end-to-end ownership
• Experience leading cross-functional projects in large-scale contexts
• Proven ability to mobilize business, IT, and vendor teams
• Strong communication, political acumen, and leadership in complex contexts

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver cross-functional business projects in the financial domain
• Own project plan, deliverables, budget, schedule, risks, and approvals
• Coordinate with sponsor, managers, leads, vendors, and external integrator
• Report to steering committee and manage resource change requests

Skills

Business project management

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Budget and risk management

Education

PMP / MGP / ACP certification

Job description

Business Project Manager, financial field

• Term November 17, 2026 to December 31, 2027
• City Montreal
• Country Canada
• Number of Positions 1
• Work Experience 7-10 Years

Job Description

MandateOverview:

• The client islooking for two senior project managers to lead business projects in thefinancial domain, with full accountability: project plan, deliverables, budget,schedule, risks and deliverable approval. The project manager is the centralpoint between the sponsor, managers, contribution leads and the externalintegrator, and authorizes resource change requests. The client's noteemphasizes BUSINESS project management in capital letters, which rules outprofiles limited to technical IT projects. The mention of credit granting riskpoints to projects related to lending or financing. The client also wants aversatile profile able to mobilize business teams, IT teams and vendors.
• Targetcandidate: a projectmanager with more than 10 years of experience who has delivered largecross-functional business projects in a financial institution or riskmanagement context and reported to a steering committee. Experience on creditor financing projects is a clear differentiator; a PMP, MGP or ACPcertification is an advantage but not eliminatory.

Requirements

KeyRequirements:

Required:

• Businessproject management, senior and versatile profile (client note)
• Projectmanagement in large-scale contexts (medium to very large, cross-functional)
• Experience ina risk management context and/or in a financial institution
• Knowledge ofcredit granting risk
• Mobilizingbusiness teams, external vendors and IT teams
• Communication,political skills, leadership and initiative in complex contexts

Asset:

• PMP / MGP /ACP certification
• Profilelisting only technical IT projects (infrastructure, migration, deployment) withno demonstrated business-scope project.
• Coordinatoror project lead profile without demonstrated ownership of the project plan,budget and steering committee reporting.
• Scrum Masteror PO presented as a project manager, without demonstrated cost and schedulemanagement.
• PCO or PMOportfolio support profile, without direct project delivery.
• Experiencelimited to single-team projects, with no cross-functional project involvingseveral departments or an external integrator.
• Backgroundwith no financial institution or risk management experience.