Project Manager - Sap Fund Accounting

Position Summary :

Project Manager will be responsible for leading and influencing their project team to ensure their projects are delivered well and meet their intended business objectives. In the role, you will be accountable for ensuring that projects are properly chartered, planned and executed within agreed to parameters for scope, cost, schedule and quality. This hybrid role (either in Toronto or Winnipeg) will require the candidate to be in office 2 to 3 days per week.

Key Accountabilities :

• For meeting budget and time goals
• Arranges for the assignment of responsibility to other supporting facilities, business areas, functions and monitors their performance
• Defines and develops project management best practices, processes, and policy to ensure alignment with corporate strategy and goals
• Manages and executes project set-up activities
• Provides project administration (Issues log, change requests, decision log). Maintains records for project plans, document management, change and problem tracking. Maintains and reports project status of actions, issues, risks
• Lead project teams and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle
• Partners with multi-departmental leadership and other stakeholders to locate opportunities and develop and prioritize projects according to relevant criteria
• Directs corrective actions in any area where performance falls below objectives
• Supervises activities of high sized multi-disciplinary team

Qualifications :

• Proven experience in delivering complex projects with multiple technical and business workstreams and involving multiple departments, vendors, external partners in the delivery of solutions requiring integration of multiple tools and technologies
• Adheres to the highest standards of personal and professional integrity and sets a positive example for others
• Advanced communication, negotiation, influencing and facilitation skills; ability to create ‘win-win’ outcomes and to obtain support of executive-level management and elicit cooperation and consensus across the business; demonstrated ability to collaborate as well as lead across a matrix organization to execute on strategies, influence change and deliver results
• Demonstrated expertise and proficiency in the application of project management methodologies
• Experience developing and maintaining project schedules including working team and executive views
• SAP Fund Accounting interfaces
• Demonstrates appropriate flexibility in all situations and will be comfortable with ambiguity, while pivoting from macro to micro issues, from shaping the strategy agenda through to the day-to-day
• Demonstrates change leadership by successfully guiding the organization through change, while maintaining focus, intensity and team cohesion
• Integrating Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Preference to candidates who have experience with
• Highly motivated, an independent thinker and has a proven track record of setting and meeting aggressive goals and actions plans, both as an individual and with a team
• Strong analytical, financial and balanced decision-making skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft suite, including Microsoft Project and Microsoft Visio
• BA in relevant field
• Vendor relationship management
• Proven ability to establish and build healthy working relationships and partnerships with technology business leaders/sponsors, peers, clients and team will work transparently and cooperatively with cross-functional teams, effectively engaging all pertinent stakeholders, both internal and external
• 7 to 10 years’ experience as a Project Manager working collaboratively as part of cross functional team

Nice To Have :

PMP – Project Management Professional certification

Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt