Project Manager Non-IT

Nexus Systems Group Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services company in Toronto is seeking a candidate for a financial management role focused on project management and budgeting. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of experience in project management, strong financial forecasting skills, and familiarity with large banking projects. This role offers a dynamic work environment with opportunities for growth and participation in team engagement activities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in project management, PCO, or similar.
• 2+ years’ in financial forecasting and managing budgets.
• 2+ years in the Banking sector, supporting large projects.

Responsibilities

• Perform financial management activities including budget forecasting.
• Manage the submission of FTE hiring requests.
• Prepare executive dashboards for GRM leadership team.

Skills

Project management

Financial forecasting

MS Excel

Data visualization

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Education

University degree in business, finance, or other relevant field

Tools

MS Excel

Power BI

SharePoint

Job description

Overview

Typical Day in Role:

• Perform financial management activities such as quarterly and annual budget forecasting and work closely with GRM Finance to investigate and resolve discrepancies
• Manage the submission of FTE hiring requests for TMO operating transit as well as the GRM central project transit
• Work with TMO leadership team to gather and ensure completeness and reasonability of financial information such as FTE, Contractors, Software, Professional Fees, and Discretionary spending, etc.
• Own the end-to-end solution that facilitates and tracks GRM FTE complements, including preparing executive dashboards for GRM leadership team
• Lead team engagement activities, including onboarding sessions, regular meetings/ townhalls, social events, and learning and development opportunities
• Perform ad-hoc, special, and/or focused data analytics as necessary, as well as other duties and projects as assigned, to support the overall Risk Transformation Program
• Continually strive for operational excellence; seek ways to streamline processes, while creating and enabling operational efficiencies across the department.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations in accordance with our Values, its Code of Conducts, while ensuring the adequacy, adherence to and effectiveness of day-to-day business controls to meet obligations with respect to operational, compliance, AML/ATF/sanctions and conduct risk.

Candidate Requirements / Must Have Skills

• 5+ years’ progressive exp in project management related work in roles such as PCO, Financial analyst, Project Manager (functional) or similar capacity.
• 2+ years’ experience in performing financial forecast and managing programming and operating budget
• 2+ years of recent experience in Banking industry with a particular emphasis in and/or industry experience supporting large scale and complex transformational projects.
• 5+ years’ highly efficient in intermediate to advanced MS Excel (VLOOKUP's, Pivot tables, functions)
• 2+ Power BI for data visualization tools while creating and maintain dashboards

Nice-To-Have Skills

• risk management
• Knowledge of SharePoint administration would be an asset
• Exp working in large scale transformation program

Soft Skills Required

• Solid business acumen and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong organizational, interpersonal and communication abilities to execute varied activities within tight deadlines and deliver with a great amount of accuracy and completeness whilst demonstrating excellent time management skills.
• Excellent analytical skills

Education & Certificates

• University degree in business, finance, or other relevant field