Senior Financial Project Manager

3 days ago


Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Thales Group Full time

Thales, a leading global technology leader, is seeking an experienced Senior Financial Project Manager to join our Ottawa office.

About the Role

This is a hybrid position that offers the perfect blend of financial management and project coordination. As a Senior Financial Project Manager, you will be responsible for providing financial leadership to our project team and ensuring that all financial aspects of the project are properly managed.

The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of experience in large multi-national or national organizations, preferably in the Defense & Security sector, with expertise in cost controlling. You should have knowledge of SAP, Primavera, and Excel, as well as strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

We offer a competitive salary of $120,000 - $150,000 per year, depending on experience, plus a comprehensive benefits package, including company-paid health, dental, and life insurance, retirement savings plans, paid holidays and vacation days, and paid sick leave.

Key Responsibilities
  • Responsible for cost control and ensures that it is in conformance with company's policy.
  • Understands project commercial terms & conditions and ensures that the project is in compliance with all the terms and conditions of the contract; Develops and prepares project budget and contract changes.
  • Provides leadership and guidance to the rest of the Project's Finance team and delegate tasks within the team; Responsible for pricing activities on the project; In Collaboration with PMO, maintains financial budget and Estimate At Completion.
  • Ensures internal control of project costing and maintains contract documents, including Project financial key data (Sales/GM/AGM/Risk & Opportunity/WIP/AR/Inventory); Validates jointly with Project Management Office and Finance Manager to resolve any inconsistency and Estimate At Completion changes.
  • Prepares, validates with Project Manager the monthly re-forecasting of Sales, Gross Margin, Cost Variance, Adjusted Gross Margin and Cash-in and ensures that the information is in time to be integrated on the monthly Company Operational Budget Review (OBR).
  • Responsible for tracking actuals to ensure spending is in line with the contract ceiling and introducing corrective actions if trending over budget; Responsible for timely project billing information; Projects Cash monitoring and liaises with the Company's Treasurer on project cash flow, foreign exchange exposure, hedging activities and customer cash collection.
  • Produces monthly project report (Dashboard) and forecasts data package with major risks and opportunities identified. Actual cost validation, Commitment cost validation, Estimate to Complete (ETC) validation and control check; Produces external weekly and monthly reporting as required, monitoring actuals and budgets; Produces external task forecasts of project burn-rate for level of effort contracts as required.

We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. All accommodation information provided will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of providing an accessible candidate experience.



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