Log Term Contract - Project Manager / Capital Markets - Halifax, NS

Gandiva Insights; Nova Scotia; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Senior Project Manager with over 10 years of experience in Capital Markets. This role involves overseeing high-stakes projects within a dynamic environment, ensuring timely delivery while maintaining quality standards. You will collaborate with senior stakeholders and lead a talented team to drive project execution, manage risks, and deliver impactful results. If you thrive in a fast-paced setting and have a passion for financial services, this opportunity offers a chance to make a significant impact in a cutting-edge technology team.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in project management, particularly in Capital Markets.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee planning, execution, and closing of complex Capital Market projects.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define project goals and deliverables.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Management

Risk Management

Capital Markets Knowledge

Strategic Thinking

Education

PMP Certification

Job description

We need : A senior (10+ years) Project Manager with recent extensive experience working on Capital Market projects (Trading, FX, Fixed Income, Wealth Management, Financial Services) and has a great understanding of the business side.

• CANDIDATES NEED A PMP CERTIFICATION AND CAPITAL MARKETS EXPERIENCE

Job Description :

Client is hiring a Senior Project Manager to join Quantitative & Technology Services' (QTS) Data, Compute & Cloud team. This is a deep engineering function developing high performance data and compute capabilities used across all of Capital Market's technology. Our products operate at massive scale, for example Burst / Grid computation across 150k cores supporting risk calculations in Equities and Fixed Income. Our foundational Capital Markets Data Fabric is being extended into the Cloud as part our strategy for large scale cloud-based data analytics and ML / AI.

This position is for a senior Project Manager where your responsibilities will be to oversee the planning, execution, and closing of complex, Data Fabric related programs of work. The current portfolio is ~ $10m CAD. Be accountable for ensuring that a project is completed within the given time-frame, budget, and scope while meeting high quality standards.

What will you do?

• Agree business objectives with senior stakeholders (e.g., GSREP Program)
• Defining specific project goals, scope, budget requirements (inc. headcount and other spend)
• Conduct project planning workshops for each to define and refine delivery scope
• Secure approvals (Architecture, IT Risk, Financial, etc.) as part of RBC CM processes, e.g., Project Approval Review (PAR)

Project Planning

• Collaborate with stakeholders and the delivery team to break down the items of work and develop an executable Project Plan - with L1 / L2 milestones described on an outcome basis in plain language
• Developing a Resource Plan i.e., the required skills and team composition
• Documenting and maintaining Risks, Issues, Assumptions, Dependencies in a formal RAID log
• Identifying the Critical Path, i.e., what is the sequence of sequential activities that has the greatest bearing on timelines and hence must remain on-track

Project Delivery

• Work closely with engineering, vendors, etc. to coordinate and drive project execution and ensure deliverables are delivered on-time
• Identify potential blockers / risks, capture in RAID, and eliminate (and / or escalating as needed)
• Collaborate with Quality Engineering to ensure automation for test capabilities
• Defining appropriate Performance Metrics; monitor to provide visibility on delivery against agreed outcomes

Governance & Communications

• Producing Project Status Reports and communicating to stakeholders in a formal governance forum, on a recurring basis (e.g. monthly)
• Status reporting to include :

Qualitative updates in progress in past month, and objectives for next month

• Delivery tracking against L1 / L2 milestones with RAG status
• Performance Metrics
• Key Risks and Issues
• Regularly communicating internally to the team on progress and ensuring everyone understands the business goals and how their work fits in

What do you need to succeed?

• Ability to work independently, apply critical and strategic thinking to issues, and manage deadlines while balancing competing priorities.
• Effective stakeholder & relationship management, and strong collaboration
• 10+ years of working on medium-to-high complexity initiatives with Project / Program delivery
• Project Management Certification (PMP or equivalent)
• Experience working with multi-site teams
• Business domain understanding of Financial Services / Capital Markets