JOB TITLE:
Project Manager, Mid-Office Projects
Location:
Juno Beach
Duration:
10-month contract
Pay:
32-37 USD per hour
Job Responsibilities:
In this role, you will manage and support multiple Trading Risk Management mid-office projects currently in flight. Key responsibilities include:
- Leading and coordinating multiple mid-office project initiatives, including:
o Applying standardized PMO frameworks (Agile, Waterfall, Hybrid).
o Managing project charters, work plans, RAID logs, and governance routines.
o Tracking scope, schedule, milestones, and deliverables.
o Monitoring cross-team dependencies and system impacts. - Driving risk and issue management by identifying, documenting, escalating, and resolving project risks with recommended mitigation strategies.
- Facilitating stakeholder alignment through standups, working sessions, and steering committee updates.
- Creating and delivering internal and external communications, including:
o Executive-ready status reports and dashboards.
o Release/change notifications.
o FAQs and training announcements.
o Customer/vendor communications. - Supporting structured change management activities to ensure successful adoption of new processes and tools.
- Maintaining accurate project documentation, meeting notes, action items, and lessons learned.
- Recommending continuous improvements to templates, workflows, reporting, and governance practices.
Essential Duties and Job Functions:
- Coordinate and execute daily project activities to ensure milestones remain on track.
- Maintain integrated project plans and proactively manage interdependencies across teams.
- Identify and manage risks, issues, and decision points with clear escalation paths.
- Facilitate effective meetings and document outcomes with defined next steps and accountability.
- Translate complex project data into clear, concise communications tailored to various audiences.
- Support change readiness activities including impact assessments, communications, and training coordination.
- Track project metrics and performance trends to recommend corrective actions when needed.
- Ensure compliance with PMO standards, governance processes, and reporting requirements.
- Partner with internal stakeholders and external customers/vendors to maintain alignment and transparency.
Knowledge & Skills:
- Strong project planning, organization, and prioritization skills.
- High attention to detail and process discipline using standardized PM frameworks.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level messaging.
- Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
- Strong stakeholder management skills; ability to influence without formal authority.
- Familiarity with change management concepts (readiness, training, communications, adoption).
- Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data and identify trends.
- Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools such as MS Project, Smartsheet, Jira/Confluence, SharePoint, Teams, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Strong facilitation and documentation skills.
Education & Experience:
- 3–6 years of project management or project coordination experience supporting cross-functional initiatives (operations, finance, technology, customer programs, or shared services).
- Experience managing in-flight projects, including tracking deliverables, managing RAID items, and coordinating dependencies across multiple teams.
- Demonstrated experience creating stakeholder communications, status reports, and executive-ready updates.
- Experience communicating with external customers/vendors preferred.
- Hands-on experience supporting change initiatives (communications, training coordination, adoption activities).
- Exposure to change management frameworks such as Prosci/ADKAR is a plus.
...