Project Manager (IT) - Senior

Teckhorizon Inc; Alberta; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Alberta seeks a Project Manager to oversee IT and Finance projects. The role involves coordinating project resources, managing budgets, and ensuring compliance with enterprise architecture. Candidates should have a strong background in project management and stakeholder engagement, along with relevant certifications. This position offers the opportunity to lead cross-functional teams and drive impactful projects.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of project management experience.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects involving financial process redesign.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and complete IT and Finance gap projects.
• Manage multiple projects, resources, and governance.
• Prepare reports for upper management.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Engagement

Risk Management

Change Management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in business administration

PMP Certification

Tools

Project Management Software

Azure

Job description

Description: Job Duties:
Responsible for the coordination and completion of IT and Finance gap and preparing policies, guidelines, platforms based on analysis and findings. Oversees all aspects of projects currently ongoing in TI. Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of projects. Builds and maintains working relationships with team members, Finance, IT divisions, Contract branch, Procurement and other departments involved in the projects. Prepares reports for upper management regarding status of projects.

Compile project charters and business/project plans to support activities, including the most suitable approach to be used in the development of each applicable project, to ensure business objectives and data integrity are achieved.
Manage project(s) that will document business requirements, design and deliver IT solutions that are compliant with and contribute to the Ministries' enterprise architecture.
Assist with the development of recommendations including providing details of resource requirements, dependencies, interdependencies, policy implications pertaining to internal/external influences, and the methodology to be applied.
Produce and package deliverables for presentation to various internal support teams, steering committee, and other project stakeholders.
Manage multiple projects, project resources, and project governance.
Work with each project sponsor to ensure that effective project communication exists throughout the duration of the project, including escalation of risks as required.
Collaborate with business and IT leadership to develop a well-defined project plan that clearly states the project's objectives, scope, assumptions, timeline, resource requirements, risks, benefits, and budget.
Document and report project status against established objectives, milestones, budget, and resources and facilitate tracking and closure of issues and risks to the Executive Director, Financial Services.
Develop project schedule plans and strategies, estimate resource requirements, develop and monitor work plans, and take corrective action for completion of project tasks.
Provide guidance to project resources in establishing work priorities and prompt delivery of project tasks and develop, as required, related requirements documentation.
Provide leadership and assistance to business and project teams that require change management and communication support.
Other responsibilities as required or requested.

Contract and Budget Oversight:
Conduct comprehensive contract inventory and spend analysis to support strategic procurement and resource allocation.
Develop contract-level budget justifications to assess and validate the value of contract expenditures.
Prepare and maintain an optimized contractual spend plan that aligns with organizational goals and fiscal constraints.
Generate a comprehensive zero-based budgeting report to evaluate funding allocations from the ground up.
Assess whether current contracts deliver good value for funds spent and identify areas for improvement.
Assist with annual and multi-year budgets that allocate funding to contracts based on substantiated justifications, including identification of potential cost savings through consolidation, renegotiation, or discontinuation of underperforming contracts.

Grants Support:
Assist in the collection and preliminary analysis of grant-related data to support effective reporting, planning, and decision-making.

Core Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in business administration, Project Management, Finance, or related field; PMP or similar certifications strongly preferred.
Minimum 5 years of project management experience, with demonstrated success in leading cross functional projects involving financial process redesign, zero based budgeting, or contract management transformation.
Ability to develop and manage project plans, timelines, and budgets.
Proven skills in stakeholder engagement and leading cross-functional teams.
Experience with risk management, change management, and issue resolution in project contexts.
Strong organizational, leadership, and communication skills.
Proficiency with project management software.

Qualification	Assessment
Must Have
Education
Yes/No - Bachelor degree, diploma or certificate in IT, Computer Science or related field of study.	Yes
Technical Skills
Duration - Exp with articulating and translating technical language for non-technical customers...	5 years
Work Experience
Duration - Experience leading and facilitating meetings with stakeholders at all levels.	5 years
Duration - Project management experience includes business cases, feasibility studies, risk...	5 years
Nice to Have
Professional Licenses/Certification
Yes/No - Currently active PMP or PGMP Certification as issued by the Project Management...	Yes
Technical Skills
Duration - Experience - Azure tools, components, and services...	3 years
Duration - Experience creating data visualizations, dashboards, and other information products...	4 years
Work Experience
Duration - Experience creating and managing project forecast and actual budgets.	3 years
Duration - Experience working with information management and cybersecurity policies, directives...	3 years
Duration - Leadership experience working in the public sector (ideally Canada) with a sound...	4 years