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Home Trust Company

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Toronto, ON

Senior Project Manager

Toronto, Ontario (view on map)

Posted 17 days ago

Job Description

Company Profile

Home Trust Company has developed a track record of success as Canada’s leading alternative lender, employing nearly 850 people in our Toronto headquarters and branches across the country. Building on the demonstrated strength of our core residential and commercial mortgage lending business, the Company and its affiliates also offer complementary lending services and competitive deposit investment products. Our culture has been shaped by the passion and integrity of our people. Home Trust is a private company.

Position Overview

Reporting to the Portfolio Director, the Senior Project Manager manages complex Home Trust projects. In this role, the Senior Project Manager is responsible for coordinating the efforts of the project team and managing the budget and work plan across the Project Management Lifecycle (i.e. scope management, issues management, risk management, quality, etc.). To ensure desired outcomes are achieved including benefits realization.

Scope: Manage complex approved HTC Projects for a business unit as a program in accordance with internal policy and procedure. Work closely with the AVP PMO, Program Manager, peers, business unit heads, sponsors and key stakeholders through all project lifecycle phases, including initiation, selection, analysis, design, development, integration realization ensuring desired outcomes. Deliver (as part of each project) guidelines for ongoing maintenance & support of solutions delivered; represents IT on cross-functional projects across HTC to ensure alignment with HCT IT current and planned technical infrastructure, business strategy; ensures seamless introduction of change to production environments.

Position Responsibilities

• Ensures alignment with the PMO Project Portfolio to ensure identification and management of cross-project dependencies – i.e. risks, issues, requirements, design or solution to be able to usefully manage these.
• Ensures project align with the PMO Methodology to enforce project standards, ensuring projects are executed in accordance to the PMI best practices and in compliance internal and external requirements (i.e. policies)
• Collaborate with sponsor(s) and stakeholders to identify which projects can be managed as a project.
• Help sponsors, stakeholders and the project subject matter experts define project scope, prepare project charter plan and other project materials
• Has oversight of the purpose and status the project and can use this oversight to support project-level activity to ensure goals are met.
• Manages project communication, scope, schedule risk assessment, quality standard cost and resources within a dynamic matrix environment.
• May need to identify/close skill or knowledge gaps on a project team in order to ensure best outcomes.
• Ensure entry / exit criteria are agreed to and met at each project gate – ensures appropriate sign-off is obtained
• Builds and maintain relationships with internal partners, external vendors/consultants with the ability to flag concerns in early stages for escalation and prompt corrective action
• Ability to track, monitor and resolve project issues
• Provide timely project status updates to the AVP PMO, project sponsors, user community and internal IT management
• Collaborate with project ream members as needed to resolve related issues, e.g. Infrastructure, planning, cross process impact, operational readiness, etc.
• Ensure proper hand-over to Application Support Team at system deployment, including training and/or documentation
• Work closely with QA Team to develop integration test strategy, test plan and scripts
• Work closely with users to develop and execute UAT test plan
• Coordinate internal IT testing with Application Support Group and participate in actual testing when necessary
• Prepare necessary documents and check list to ensure successful system implementation
• Work with internal customers to identify business issues, problems and/or enhancements and provide highly innovative and creative solutions that achieve quality and process improvements with available hardware, software, databases and peripherals

Required Experience

• 4-7 years managing large programs in an IT environment
• Cross-Functional Business Change Management experience (i.e. people, process and tools)
• 6 years of progressive broad-based information systems and business experience
• Knowledge of SAP is an advantage

Acknowledgment

All employees of Home Trust Company must comply with all applicable Home Trust Company, and specific Line of Business policies, standards, guidelines and controls. Additionally, all employees are obligated to become familiar with Home’s risk management framework and understand the operational risk management requirements within their specific business. Employees are also expected to understand and comply with the Company’s Code of Business Conduct & Ethics Policy at all times and escalate any issues or concerns through various reporting channels (i.e. Ombudsman, Compliance Hotline, Whistleblower Policy, etc).

Home Trust is committed to fair and accessible employment practices and we are committed to providing accommodations for persons with disabilities. If you require accommodations in order to apply for any job opportunities, or require this posting in an additional format, please contact us at humanresources@hometrust.ca or 416-360-4663. If you are contacted by Home Trust regarding a job opportunity or testing and require accommodation in any stage of the recruitment process, please use the above contact information. We will work with all applicants to determine appropriate accommodation for individual accessibility needs.