Technical Project Manager with Joint-Venture

Scotiabank; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Scotiabank as a Technical Project Manager, where you'll lead critical projects across Canada and LATAM. This role demands strategic thinking, adherence to governance standards, and the ability to deliver results in a fast-paced environment. You will oversee project execution from inception to completion, support various business units, and facilitate communication among stakeholders while championing a culture of continuous improvement. A competitive rewards package, flexible work environment and inclusion are part of what makes this an exciting opportunity.

Benefits

Performance bonus

Generous vacation

Health/medical/wellness benefits

Employee banking privileges

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in project management within banking.
• Proven ability leading cross-functional teams.
• Experience with joint ventures or acquisitions.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple technical projects ensuring alignment with organization goals.
• Provide leadership and direction to project teams.
• Control project budgets and financial analysis.

Skills

Bilingual (English and Spanish)

Project Management

Analytical Skills

Technical Problem-Solving

Education

Engineering bachelor's degree

PMP Certification

Job description

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Title: Technical Project Manager with Joint-Venture

Requisition ID: 225678

Join a purpose driven winning team, committed to results, in an inclusive and high-performing culture.

Purpose

• Contributes to the overall success of the execution of multiple technical projects in the Technology, Project Governance, PMO and Reporting office in Canada and LATAM countries.
• Ensures technology projects align with the organization’s objectives, accomplishing goals, plans and initiatives are executed and delivered in time, quality, cost and scope.
• Ensures all activities conducted are following governing regulations, internal policies, and procedures.

Accountabilities

• Plan, design, implement and execute all-bank wide projects that are aimed at advancing goals and priorities and ensuring deadlines are met and resources and teams are optimally executing.
• Manage multiple projects, ensuring that the organization's strategic priorities are reflected in project execution.
• Execute multiple projects and initiatives at the All-Bank level with technology and business lines. Manage cross-functional teams, design and develop roadmaps, issue identification, analysis to assess impact on financials and presenting compelling recommendations.
• Collaborate with Project Director to translate business strategic objectives into actionable plans for technical teams.
• Provide leadership and direction to Facilitators, Project Managers, ensuring that the technical teams are aligned with project objectives and operate efficiently.
• Execute problem solving, risk leverage and mitigation, with cross-functional teams, business lines and Technology, remove obstacles and escalate when necessary.
• Present projects progress and apply implementation controls that manage trade-offs and keep deliverables and milestones on track and on time, including proactive mitigation of project risks.
• Control overall projects budget, accomplishing funding strategy and project efficiency, including budgeting, financial analysis, performance measurement, vendor and contract management and expense management.
• Implement IB Data Management Strategic Project to Establish an efficient, streamlined process for managing data requests from various Business Lines to Engineering, utilizing the IBT&T Office to deliver a comprehensive, value driven solution to the business.
• Support the implementation of Data Management, Software Currency, Hardware Currency, Modernization and Transformation projects among others, across the region, working closely with project teams to monitor and optimize the performance of data, software currency, hardware currency, modernization, and Transformation pipelines, ensuring that they meet performance, scalability, and reliability standards.
• Synthesize findings, report regular status, and present clear recommendations and implementation plans to ensure impactful project outcomes to Director PMO and stakeholders.
• Establish and monitor key metrics, reviews, and measurements to accomplish project outcomes.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement in project management including agile, ensuring that lessons learned from previous projects are applied and optimize future projects.
• Understand how the Bank’s risk appetite and risk culture should be considered in day-to-day activities and decisions.
• Actively pursues effective and efficient operations of their respective areas in accordance with Scotiabank’s Values, its Code of Conduct and the Global Sales Principles, 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.
• Champions a high-performance environment and contributes to an inclusive work environment.

Additional Info

• 15 Countries supported / LATAM region / several business units supported from Business Lines, Technology, and across Value Chain.
• Financial dimensions: capital budget allocation and projects financial control
• Project Portfolio management: Several Number of projects:
• IB (international Banking) Software Currency, Hardware Projects, Transformation and Modernization Projects leading.
• IB Data Management Strategic Project leading

Skills, Education and Experience

Must Have

• Must be Bi-lingual in English and Spanish.
• Must have previous experience working with Joint-venture, or maybe Divestiture or Acquisition.
• 5 years + of Experience in Project management
• 3 years + of relevant experience in banking industry.
• Proven Experience running projects, with large group of cross-functional teams.
• IB (international Banking) Software Currency, Hardware Projects, Transformation, Modernization, Data, Divestitures or Joint ventures Projects leading.
• Support the implementation of Data Management, Software Currency, Hardware Currency, Modernization, Transformation or Divestitures/Joint Ventures projects among others, across the region, working closely with project teams to monitor and optimize the performance of data, software currency, hardware currency, modernization, and Transformation pipelines, ensuring that they meet performance, scalability, and reliability standards.
• Proven ability to make presentations to multiple stakeholders and communication skills to deal with all levels of management and cross-functional teams
• Experience in engaging with stakeholders at all levels, including executives.
• Ability to deliver results in a fast-paced, challenging, and dynamic business environment.
• Exceptional analytical and technical problem-solving skills, with ability to manage ambiguity.

Nice to have skills and Experience

• Engineering bachelor’s degree is preferred.
• PMP Certification is an asset

What’s In It for You

• You'll get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology companies around the world.
• We foster an environment of innovation and continuous learning. We have an inclusive and collaborative working environment that encourages creativity, curiosity, and celebrates success!
• We provide employees with an environment that is safe, inclusive, and reflective of all communities by promoting fair and equitable treatment and prioritizing unconscious bias and anti-racism training.
• We care about our people, allowing them to design how they work to deliver amazing results.
• We offer a competitive total rewards package, including a performance bonus, company matching programs (pension & Employee Share Ownership), generous vacation; health/medical/wellness benefits; employee banking privileges.
• Predominant work from home team culture, with ad hoc in person (once post Covid permits).
• When in person collaboration is required, you can take advantage of our new state of the art ecosystems with a design focus on enabling collaboration through both environment and technology.

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Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto

Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families and their communities achieve success through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets.

At Scotiabank, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to the Bank, and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site, alternate format documents, ASL Interpreter, or Assistive Technology) during the recruitment and selection process, please let our Recruitment team know. If you require technical assistance, please click here . Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at Scotiabank; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.