Senior Project Control Officer

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About the Job

Our client has a requirement for a Senior Project Control Officer for a six month contract opportunity. The position is located in Toronto.

What makes this Special 

Our client is one of the largest Banks in North America. With exponential growth and millions of customers and clients who are served through our various businesses: Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking, Wealth Management, U.S. Personal and Commercial Banking, and Wholesale Banking. Being part of this company is being part of a better Canadian service.

Role

The successful candidate will be a Senior Project Control Officer who can work and support two or more Senior Managers whose primary focus will be on providing financial management and analytical support to project managers at the program level for a large (Tier 1) initiative.

Responsibilities

As part of this project team, prime responsibility will be to:

• Manage relationships and all activities with all required partners (business, Finance, program PMO, project teams, external partners) related to program one-time and on-going financials (prepare budget, forecasts and actuals).
• Utilize project management software for development and distribution of comprehensive set of monthly, weekly and ad hoc project financial reporting to a variety of program stakeholders (including templates for use by other project members).
• Work closely with Finance to provide necessary detailed financial data to support the forecasting and tracking of capitalization and amortization.
• Manage all financial status meetings for the program. Provide support for invoice processing. Manage process for all required updates to internal financial management tracking tools (e.g. EPM, Carpe Diem).
• Manage reporting and tracking for resource utilization.
• Exercise discretion in managing correspondence and information, escalating issues where appropriate.
• Act as central point of communication for core team members, management, business partners and other stakeholders on program, organization and platform issues.

Note: This role requires travel to London, ON and work out of the London, ON office at least once or twice a week and as required.

Requirements or Qualifications

Qualified Candidates will have:

• Strong MS Project experience to create and maintain project plans.
• MS Excel and PowerPoint experience to create and maintain documents
• Knowledge and experience in maintaining a central repository of project plans, reports, competencies etc
• Financial Project Forecasting skills/experience and detail oriented
• Bank experience in a similar role with familiarity with bank financial management and reporting systems (EPM/PPM, Carpe Diem, SORT),
• Strong understanding of PMLC, especially as it applies to bank-related projects
• Candidates need to be working towards their PMP
• Understanding System Development Life Cycle