Senior Project Manager, Payments

Central 1 Credit Union; Toronto; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead technology-focused projects within the Payments sector. This role involves overseeing project planning and execution, ensuring alignment with business goals, and managing cross-functional teams. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in the Canadian financial services industry and a strong understanding of project management methodologies. Join a dynamic team that values work-life balance and offers a hybrid work environment, along with generous benefits and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Work-life flexibility

Hybrid work environment

Generous annual vacation allotment

Retirement Plan with matched contributions

Access to a learning platform

Career development opportunities

Wellness Flex Fund

Day off to volunteer

Corporate discounts

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Payments projects, 10+ years in project management.
• Solid understanding of technology concepts and software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead project teams, manage scope, timeline, and budget.
• Coordinate data governance and ensure project deliverables meet requirements.

Skills

Project Management

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Agile Methodologies

Waterfall Methodologies

Time Management

Education

PMP Certification

PRINCE2 Certification

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Central 1 cooperatively empowers credit unions and other financial institutions to deliver banking choice to Canadians. Central 1 provides critical services at scale to enable a thriving credit union system. We do this by collaborating with our clients, developing strategies, products and services to support the financial well-being of their more than 5 million diverse customers in communities across Canada. For more information, visit www.central1.com.

What we offer:

• Work-life flexibility
• Hybrid work environment
• One time allowance to set up your office for remote first employees
• Variable annual incentive plan
• Generous annual vacation allotment
• Top-notch flexible benefits plan including family building and gender affirmation
• Retirement Plan, matched contributions at 6%
• Access to a learning platform and educational assistance support
• Access to a virtual wellness platform
• Career development opportunities
• Wellness Flex Fund to support personal interest and activities
• Day off to volunteer in your community and other paid time off options
• Corporate discounts

*subject to employment agreement

Job Summary:

As a Senior Project Manager, you will spearhead the planning and execution of projects within the Payments line of business—from inception through to delivery. This role has a strong focus on technology, so we’re looking for candidates with a proven track record of delivering complex technology projects in fast-paced environments.

What you'll be doing:

• Provide strong overall leadership to project team members and acts as an effective project manager who leads the project team towards the overall success of the project.
• Leverage project team members and business data stewards to plan and deliver guidelines and operational processes, and partner with technology and business on project deliverables to improve data quality and use.
• Establish and oversee the implementation of project governance for the data related projects, ensuring that teams and committees are adequately involved.
• Coordinate data governance sessions and work with individuals to ensure effective implementation and ongoing data governance management.
• Demonstrate full project ownership by managing project scope, timeline, and budget within agreed tolerances throughout the lifecycle of the project.
• Create and adjust project plans in consultation with all stakeholders as required to meet objectives, and manage trade-offs between scope, quality, time and cost as necessary.
• Provide timely project reporting for senior management including project status, plans, operational reports, and ad-hoc reporting.
• Facilitate change management and decision making by Project Sponsor or Steering Committee by presenting information and options for the way forward.
• Produce project risk management plans to identify, assess and mitigate project risks.
• Arrange the distribution of work within the company and to external contractors, provide instructions, advice and direction to project team members.
• Ensure project deliverables meet stated requirements, are delivered to the required standard of quality and within the specified constraints of time and cost.
• Work closely with the project team and other stakeholders to adhere to project change control policies, procedures, and practices for management of scope, notifying stakeholders of scope change, delays, and significant variances against budget, and prepare supporting documentation (PCR) for approval when required.
• Function with a high degree of independence, exercising sound judgment and discretion in making decisions, manage resources and coordinate activities in a cross-team environment.
• Proactively identify potential risks and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed. Manage Risk and Issue logs.
• Other duties and projects as assigned.

What you will have:

• 5+ years of experience in Payments projects at all levels, including all aspects from Business and Technology perspectives.
• 10+ years of project management experience delivering large projects in the Canadian financial services industry, working with business stakeholders within a cross-functional matrix environment.
• Solid understanding of technology concepts and approaches, including software development lifecycle concepts, technical design/requirements, API, testing principles, etc.
• Proven experience working with Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid methodologies.
• Exceptional expertise and experience using JIRA & Confluence tools.
• Project management (PMP, PRINCE2) and Agile (SCRUM, etc) preferred.
• Ability to effectively use tools and other resources to manage issues, risks, assumptions, and decisions.
• Comfortable dealing with projects that have many moving parts.
• Exceptional analytical, problem solving, planning, organizational and time management skills.
• Highly developed business acumen.
• Strong collaboration, communication, presentation, and influencing skills to gain buy-in across diverse stakeholder groups and to build confidence.
• Familiarity with the Canada Payments business and capabilities.

Salary Range: $110,000-$125,000

The salary range represents the job rate determined for the successful candidate who is fully competent in the role. The actual salary will vary depending on market conditions and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience, and education/training.

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Central 1 is an equal opportunity employer and committed to building an inclusive workforce by creating an environment where everyone feels like they belong and has the opportunity to be successful. We welcome all applicants to join our diverse workforce and we will provide an accessible candidate experience including, but not limited to accommodations to interview sites and alternate formats upon request to our Recruitment team.