VP, IT Portfolio Management & Transformation

goeasy; Toronto; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company that is a leader in the alternative financial services sector. As the Vice President of IT Portfolio Management & Transformation, you will play a pivotal role in steering the organization’s IT investments and initiatives. This position involves strategic leadership, overseeing project management standards, and ensuring successful project outcomes while fostering a culture of collaboration. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this innovative firm offers a supportive environment where your contributions will make a significant impact. If you're ready to take on a challenging role in a rapidly growing company, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in transformational project management.
• Strong financial acumen with experience managing large budgets.
• Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage IT investments and initiatives, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy.
• Oversee enterprise project management office and governance practices.
• Lead cross-functional communication for business transformation initiatives.

Skills

Project Management

Financial Acumen

Cross-Functional Team Leadership

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Problem-Solving Abilities

Vendor Management

Process Engineering

Education

Post-secondary education in business, computer science, or engineering

MBA or relevant professional designation

Job description

Pay Competitive

Employment type Other

Job Description

• Req#: 155006

If you are looking to join one of Canada’s fastest growing companies, goeasy Ltd. is the place for you! Certified as a Great Place to Work, recognized among Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures, GTA's Top 100 Employers, one of Canada’s Top 50 Fintechs, North America’s Most Engaged Workplaces, and placed on the 2022 Report on Business Women Lead Here list, we want the best and brightest to join our team.

We are a publicly traded company on the TSX with over 4000% shareholder return since 2001. Accredited by the Better Business Bureau, goeasy Ltd is a Canadian company that provides non-prime leasing and lending services through easyhome, easyfinancial, and LendCare.

The Vice President, IT Portfolio Management & Transformation is a multi-faceted position, playing a key role in ensuring the smooth running of the overall IT portfolio as a business. This role oversees the enterprise project management office, process engineering practice, Quality Assurance, User Acceptance Testing & IT Vendor Management.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for strategic and tactical management of IT investments and initiatives
• Setting project management methodology and standards across the enterprise
• Providing oversight to the enterprise project management office and ensuring alignment to corporate strategy and objectives
• Provide strategic leadership and direction to ensure projects deliver desired outcomes, interdependencies are recognized and managed, bridge organizational gaps and elimination of redundancies, risk identification and management, ensuring decisions on projects are aligned to the organizational direction
• Working in conjunction with finance, participate in the development and management of the IT capital budget, monitoring expenses, optimizing resource allocation, and providing financial oversight
• Chair Business Transformation Council and Portfolio Delivery Council
• Establish policies and governance practices related to operational and capital IT expenses
• Oversee cross-functional communication around the business transformation agenda and portfolio initiatives to provide a central engine for the project/program delivery and portfolio initiatives, future M&A integrations, and program and change management expertise
• Accountable for centralized sourcing, selection, and management of IT vendors
• Standardize vendor performance metrics while regularly identifying opportunities for optimizing vendor performance and costs
• Drive the process engineering function with a focus on optimizing and automating highly manual and repetitive processes to maximize efficiency of resources
• Provide leadership and guidance to the QA strategy, overseeing the QA function and integration of QA as part of the overall delivery cycle
• Oversee end-to-end testing of applications including user acceptance testing (UAT)

Qualifications

• 10+ years of related experience in key transformational project management with significant experience leading cross-functional teams, projects, initiatives
• Demonstrated experience in project planning, prioritization, execution and governance
• Strong financial acumen and experience managing large budgets
• Integration experience within M&A transactions is a strong asset
• Relevant post-secondary education in business, computer science, engineering or related discipline. MBA or relevant professional designation is preferred
• Superior relationship building skills at all levels of the organization, both internally and externally
• Knowledge of QA and UAT to provide leadership and oversight at a strategic level
• Previous experience working with offshore teams and vendor partners
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities

Diversity, Inclusion, and Equal Opportunity Employment:

At goeasy, we believe that we can only be the best when people are able to bring their best selves to work every day. This means that we are committed to cultivating and preserving a work culture where we celebrate who we are, where everyone feels seen and heard and where every employee can fulfill their potential. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing accommodations for applicants upon request at any stage of the recruitment process in accordance with all legislative requirements throughout Canada. Please let us know if you require an accommodation during any aspect of the recruitment process and we will work with you to address your needs.

Additional Information:

All candidates considered for hire must successfully pass a criminal background check, credit check, and validation of their work experience to qualify for hire. We thank all interested applicants, however we will only be contacting those for interview who possess the skills and qualifications outlined above.

Why should you work for goeasy?

To learn more about our great company please click the links below:

http://goeasy.com/careers/

goeasy Ltd. is a Canadian public alternative financial company based in Mississauga, Ontario.