Project Manager: Ets Merger Technical Integration:

Role Title: ETS Merger Technical Integration: Project Manager

Job Level: Consultant

Location: Montreal ( Office attendance from Day 1 - Hybrid Mode)

Years of experience 7 to 10 years

Role Description:

The ETS Merger Technical Integration team is responsible for successful integration of a merger of two firms. Its a large scale, multiyear, complex program that spans across multiple technical disciplines and locations.

The role of Integration Project Manager to facilitate multiple sub-projects and deliverables under a program manager in a structured and efficient manner by means of following a mature program lifecycle.

The project manager will be collaborating with the large number of Technology teams from both the companies in their efforts to integrate. This role will be part of the Program management team which operates across Enterprise Technology& Services (ETS) division and will be responsible to lead workstream(s) and provide project management support for various deliverables.

The Project Manager is responsible for planning and delivering various project phases and acts as a point of contact for a wide range of stakeholder.

Responsibilities include but are not necessarily limited to:

• Responsible for senior stakeholder management, communications, and escalation
• Risk, action, issues and dependencies identification, resolution / mitigation co-ordination
• Adherence to project lifecycle quality and policy standards
• Coordinate across local, regional and global teams, virtual teams and matrix managed teams
• Development of detailed delivery plans, information documents and status reporting
• Develop and execute detailed migration plans
• Facilitating project meetings, track and publish actions, plans, risks and issue
• Develop detailed project plans working with a large number of technical teams
• Create and articulate executive level communication on a project or program level
• Drive end to end execution of projects/program consisting of multiple work streams

Experience & Skills required (Must have):

• Excellent MS Office (PowerPoint, Word, Visio, Excel, MS project) skills
• A sound background for the adherence to business processes and procedures
• Ability to multi-task and manage several projects concurrently
• Highly organized and strong problem-solving skills
• Excellent written / reporting skills is a must. Major part of the work is to prepare and communicate number of reports that can articulate status to Non technical user base.
• Good understanding and ability to work across disparate technological environments including End user technology, Server (Compute) platforms, Networking (Voice and Data), Datacenter and applications technologies.
• Ability to indirectly manage virtual team members from a diverse cultural background and locations
• Proactive, positive, strong sense of ownership and accountability
• Merger and technology integration experience preferred
• Project management of IT infrastructure and experience of differing execution methodologies such as waterfall, agile/scrum and hybrid approaches
• Prepare agenda, minutes, detailed project plans, presentations taking input from large number of stakeholders and telling a consistent cohesive story
• Strong hands on knowledge in one or more Technology areas above is preferred
• Ability to connect dots across various workstreams and teams to bring the big picture together.
• Candidates must have a good attention to detail and organizational skills
• Must have the ability to be flexible, work independently be self-motivated and a team player

Experience & Skills (Nice to have):

• Communication degree or similar area
• Financial industry experience, preferably tier 1 Investment banking experience
• Project management certifications e.g. Agile certifications, PMP certified (or equivalent recognized professional standard)