Project Manager

Novipro is looking for a **Project Manager**. This is a **12 month renewable** mandate for one of our well-known clients in the** banking industry**. This mandate is in **hybrid mode, a minimum of 2 days in the office** in downtown Montreal. Are you interested?

**About this organization**:
Our client is one of the leading European financial services groups. Based on a diversified and integrated banking model, the Group combines financial strength and proven expertise in innovation with a strategy of sustainable growth, aiming to be the trusted partner for its clients, committed to the positive transformations of society and the economy.

Active in the real economy for over 150 years, with a solid position in Europe and connected to the rest of the world, This organization has over 147,000 members of staff in 67 countries and supports on a daily basis 32 million individual clients, businesses and institutional investors around the world by offering a wide range of advisory services and tailored financial solutions

Our client opened its Canadian headquarters in Montreal in 1974 to offer its financial services to corporations, financial institutions and governments. The Toronto and Calgary offices were opened in 1978 and 2006 respectively.

They now employ over four hundred people, both in the traditional banking sector (investment banking, funds and trading activities) and in the field of information technology, with the opening of their Montreal Solutions Centre subsidiary which, thanks to its geographical location and its cultural diversity, provides computer support and development for the New York and Paris teams.

**What will be your day-to-day?**:

- Oversees/Manages/Leads project execution, integration and implementation
- Coordinates activities, resources, and information sharing ensuring the delivery of projects and key milestones
- Monitors, tracks and reports on project's progress to stakeholders and other governance bodies
- Proactively manages performance, cost, scope, schedule, quality and other key project management activities
- Identifies, manages, and escalates risks, issues and change requests to appropriate decision makers
- Develops, manages and maintains the project work plan, schedule, risk / issues, and documentation utilizing project management tools and techniques
- Makes certain that clients' needs are met as projects evolve
- Act as the point of contact and communicate project status and Key Performance Indicators adequately to all participants and stakeholders
- Successfully manages projects numerous resources - including those functionally aligned as part of the project and organizationally aligned resources
- Responsible for the end-to-end integration of various work streams in order to deliver the intended project solution
- Oversees periodic weekend project execution activities - every 2-4 weeks
- Manage work stream and governance meetings, maintains meeting minutes and action item follow ups

**Profile***:

- Experience as an IT project manager in a broad range of infrastructure related projects, including network, server and database solution deployments
- Self-starter, proactive and works well with diverse groups
- Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills with ability to communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences, as appropriate
- Comfortable facilitating and presenting to groups
- MS Project, Outlook, Excel, Visio and PowerPoint advanced experience required
- Possesses professional knowledge of product / function and applies knowledge to project activities to enhance delivery
- Deeply understands all project management disciplines and their key activities, processes, and artifacts
- Understands the relationship of their project(s) to the overall program
- Leadership - Ability to work with team members to set and achieve development goals and provide constructive feedback throughout the project lifecycle
- Knowledge of a formal project management methodology (e.g. PMI, Prince 2, etc.) and/or the Technology SDLC/PDLC Process, project planning tools (eg. MS Project) and project change strategies
- General Project Management - Experience creating appropriate project documentation, balances stakeholder needs, and effectively negotiates tradeoffs between scope, schedule, and budget; Balances needs of multiple stakeholders. Gains buy-in from groups who may be resistant to change
- Schedule Management - Understanding of how to create, manage and understand impacts to project scope, constraints, and schedule. Manages projects according to work plan. Performs critical path analysis
- Cost Management - Experience developing and routinely reassessing project budgets to account for variances and ensures accuracy. Creates budget reports to compare actual with forecasted costs
- Communication Management - Experience creating performance and status reports for relevant stakeholders
- Risk & Issue Management - Understands how to develop and manage project ris