Senior Project Manager 108060-1

As a Senior Project Manager, you will serve as a key driver of strategic finance initiatives, ensuring projects align with business goals and achieve measurable outcomes. You will lead cross-functional teams through the complete project lifecycle, from planning to implementation, maintaining a strong grasp on budgets, timelines, and risk mitigation.
A central aspect of this role involves analyzing complex data and project metrics to craft executive-level presentations that keep leadership informed of milestones, schedule changes, and overall status. Utilizing strong matrix-management skills, you will align diverse teams around shared objectives, foster a collaborative environment, and navigate change within a fast-paced corporate atmosphere.

Advantages
Hybrid Flexibility: Enjoy the balance of remote work with just 2 days per week onsite (Wednesday and Thursday) at a central downtown location (81 Bay St.).
Career Growth & Continuity: High potential for contract extension or conversion to a permanent Full-Time Employee (FTE) role.
High-Impact Exposure: Interface directly with executive leadership, senior business stakeholders, and key technology partners.
Global & Strategic Scope: Drive complex, enterprise-level regulatory projects across Finance functions with opportunities to support international stakeholders.

Responsibilities
Project Governance & Lifecycle Management: Execute end-to-end project plans for large-scale, complex initiatives, maintaining an optimal balance between budget, timing, and risk.
Benefits & Outcome Tracking: Collaborate with business leaders to establish meaningful, measurable benefits and actively track their achievement throughout the project lifecycle.
Executive Presentation & Stakeholder Engagement: Analyze complex data and situations to deliver clear, impactful presentations to executive leadership and senior business partners.
Risk & Problem Mitigation: Proactively identify, assess, and resolve project risks and issues before they impact timelines or deliverable quality.
Leadership & Matrix Management: Guide, coach, and mentor multi-disciplinary project teams; negotiate deliverables and align diverse stakeholder groups across the organization.
Meeting Facilitation: Chair effective, structured meetings with senior leaders and key partners to ensure actionable outcomes and clear follow-through.

Qualifications
Must Have:
Project Management Expertise: Up to 10+ years of demonstrated experience in project management, with a deep mastery of practices, procedures, and principles required to deliver large-scale projects.
Domain Knowledge: Proven track record of delivering regulatory projects for a large financial institution within Finance areas such as Controllership, Tax, or Treasury.
Analytical & Problem-Solving Ability: Strong ability to analyze complex concepts, evaluate pros and cons of proposed solutions, and swiftly resolve project bottlenecks.
Global Flexibility: Ability and flexibility to support international clients across UK or APAC time zones when required.
Education: A bachelor's degree in a related field of study.

Nice to Have:
PMP Designation: Active Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Specialized Project Experience: Prior experience leading tax compliance initiatives or regulatory solutions (e.g., global e-invoicing implementations).

Soft Skills & Cultural Fit:
People-Focused Leader: Skilled at building authentic, trusted relationships with peers, team members, and senior executives.
Strategic Thinker: Forward-looking decision-maker who proactively identifies future opportunities and champions positive change.
Collaborative & Inclusive: Thrives in a team-oriented environment that values diverse perspectives, teamwork, trust, and accountability.

Summary
Our team is seeking a Senior Project Manager for a 12-month contract opportunity with a premier financial institution in downtown Toronto. Working from a modern office location at 81 Bay Street, this role operates on a convenient hybrid model (2 days per week onsite on Wednesdays and Thursdays). As a Senior Project Manager, you will work closely with business leaders to define, track, and measure project benefits, navigate complex regulatory landscapes, and deliver large-scale initiatives within the Finance domain.

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

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