Project Control Officer - It - Advanced

Work options: Hybrid

Candidate should be prepared to come into the office 3-4 days per week.

Our Banking client in Toronto, Ontario is looking to hire a Project Control Officer - IT – Advanced for a 6-months contract role with possibility for extension.

What You Will Be Doing…

• Preparing program and governance status reports
• Support project manager(s) with monitoring action items, risks, issues, changes, and decision logs
• Complete weekly schedule variance reports & PCO project status report package and scorecard
• Oversee the development, implementation and execution of project schedules, financials, status reporting, variance analysis and reporting, resource planning, change control, performance measures, and risk assessments ensuring any risks to the completion of the project schedules are effectively identified, mitigated and/or escalated.
• Capture meting notes and discussion topics.
• Conduct weekly risk assessment of the project schedule highlighting high risks to key deliverables and resource conflicts.
• Support and maintain controls and integrated schedules / milestones in portfolio reporting.
• Participates in PMO planning and development sessions (strategic, tactical plans, budgeting)
• Assist project managers in the development, management, and ongoing maintenance of project schedules and with identifying inter-project and task dependencies and constraints.
• Setup and maintain artefact and document repositories.
• Responsible for the development, maintenance, and variance analysis/reporting for a specific project within BFS. May consist of supporting multiple project plans, which have been integrated to develop the implementation roadmap for the entire program.
• Oversee and manage all the Project Manager’s project plans and their deliverables.
• Support the Program Manager to ensure operational effectiveness of program execution.

What You Will Need To Succeed…

Must Have Skills:

• Knowledge of project methodology
• Project Management Certification
• Bachelor’s degree
• Knowledge of system development processes
• 2-4 years' experience as a Project Control Officer on small to mid-sized programs
• 2-4 years' experience as a Project Manager managing projects and project schedule.

Nice To Have Skills

• Experience within Financial Industry.
• Specifically, business / commercial banking.

Applying with Raise

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We value diversity and inclusion and encourage all qualified people to apply, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. If we can make this easier through accommodation in the recruitment process, please contact us at +1 800-567-9675 or [email protected]

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