Project Control Officer - Intermediate level

Raise; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 57,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Raise is hiring a Project Control Officer - Intermediate for a 4‑month contract in Toronto with hybrid work arrangement. The role focuses on controlling project finances, forecasting, and governance while coordinating with leadership and cross‑functional teams.

The candidate will manage accruals, reconciliations, and reporting, leveraging Eclipse, MS Project, Excel and BI tools, and support data-driven decisions in a dynamic IT environment.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in a Senior IT Project Coordinator, Project Control Officer, or similar role.
• Demonstrated experience managing program/project financials, including GL reconciliation and executive financial reporting.
• Strong accounting experience.
• Ability to pull data from systems, manipulate and report on data.

Responsibilities

• Support through all phases of the project lifecycle.
• Maintain project financial forecasts, track progress, and elevate risks, issues, and action items as needed.
• Manage and reconcile project financials, including accruals, GL reconciliation, chargebacks, invoice tracing, forecasting, and actuals vs. plan variance analysis and commentary.
• Prepare financial and status reporting for leadership and executive steering committees.
• Monitor governance activities and support ongoing improvements to processes, tools, and reporting.
• Respond to changing priorities and effectively reprioritize work as required.
• Support the resource allocation governance process, onboard resources to Bank’s proprietary resource and project financial management tool (Eclipse), whilst also supporting users with issues.

Skills

Data manipulation

Financial reporting

Forecasting

Tools

Eclipse

MS Project

Excel

PowerPoint

SharePoint

Jira

Power BI

Alteryx

Job description

• Location: Toronto, ON - Hybrid (Every Monday core days and first Friday of every month and any other day as required by management)
• Pay Rate: $41.19/hr - $47.61/hr
• Contract Length: 4 Months with possibility for extension

We at Raise are hiring a Project Control Officer - Intermediate level for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand.

Responsibilities

• Support through all phases of the project lifecycle.
• Maintain project financial forecasts, track progress, and elevate risks, issues, and action items as needed.
• Manage and reconcile project financials, including accruals, GL reconciliation, chargebacks, invoice tracing, forecasting, and actuals vs. plan variance analysis and commentary.
• Prepare financial and status reporting for leadership and executive steering committees.
• Monitor governance activities and support ongoing improvements to processes, tools, and reporting.
• Respond to changing priorities and effectively reprioritize work as required.
• Support the resource allocation governance process, onboard resources to Bank’s proprietary resource and project financial management tool (Eclipse), whilst also supporting users with issues.

Must Have Requirements

• 3–5 years of experience in a Senior IT Project Coordinator, Project Control Officer, or similar role.
• Demonstrated experience managing program/project financials, including GL reconciliation and executive financial reporting.
• Strong accounting experience
• Ability to pull data from systems, manipulate and report on data.

Nice To Have

• Experience at Banking, GL reconciliation, Eclipse tool experience.
• Ability to use Eclipse (proprietary tool used by Banking is a BIG asset)
• Advanced proficiency in MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
• Experience with Jira, Power BI, Alteryx.

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