Associate Project Manager

Bank of Montreal

14h•Remote

About The Position

The Associate Project Manager leads assigned projects from initiation to implementation, ensuring successful business outcomes by delivering projects on time, within budget, and to quality standards, satisfying the project sponsor. This role focuses on mitigating execution risk and understanding the business group to facilitate effective communication with stakeholders. The Associate Project Manager directs and coordinates team members, including other project managers, business and technology resources, user groups, consultants, contractors, vendors, and regulatory organizations. They lead small to medium complexity projects and support larger projects. The role involves supporting PMO reporting and governance, managing financial forecasts, and conducting ongoing reconciliation. It also requires breaking down strategic problems, analyzing data, and providing insights and recommendations. The Associate Project Manager monitors performance, addresses issues, and guides the project sponsor on project implementation and sustainment. They manage all aspects of the project lifecycle, including business, operational, and technology deliverables, ensuring all project processes are completed and change management plans are developed and measured. The position requires executing project requirements within governance frameworks, complying with enterprise standards, and developing all related project management artifacts. They monitor and control project deliverables, make recommendations for adjustments, and advise the project sponsor on the business case viability. The role demands understanding project interdependencies, proactively identifying risks, and establishing mitigation strategies. Effective stakeholder partnership, communication with the project sponsor, and building trust are crucial. The Associate Project Manager demonstrates ownership and commitment by being accountable for problem identification and resolution, and represents the project in various forums. Adherence to Bank risk, regulatory, and compliance controls is essential. The focus is primarily on business/group within BMO, with potential for broader enterprise-wide focus. The role involves exercising judgment to solve complex problems independently and may include unique situations.

Requirements

Typically between 4 - 6 years of relevant experience and post-secondary degree in related field of study or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Project management experience – 1 to 3 years.
Power BI reporting and dashboarding experience.
Entrepreneurial skills – Working.
Judgement skills – Working.
Learning agility – Working.
Able to build effective partnerships with stakeholders.
Able to navigate challenging situations effectively with guidance.
Technical proficiency gained through education and/or business experience.
Verbal & written communication skills - In-depth.
Presentation & negotiation skills.
Collaboration & team skills - In-depth.
Analytical and problem solving skills - In-depth.
Influence skills.

Responsibilities

Leads assigned projects from project initiation to implementation to achieve desired business results.
Ensures that a successful business outcome is the prime measure of project success including delivering projects on time, within budget, within quality standards and to the satisfaction of the project sponsor.
Drives to mitigate execution risk to achieve the desired business outcomes.
Understands the business/group and facilitates communication with other program/project managers and stakeholders efficiently and effectively.
Directs, manages, and coordinates team members including other project managers, business and technology resources, user groups, internal and external consultants and contractors, as well as vendors and external regulatory organizations.
Leads small to medium complexity projects.
Plays a support role on larger projects.
Support PMO reporting and governance activities.
Manages/validates financial forecasts and conducts ongoing reconciliation.
Breaks down strategic problems, and analyses data and information to provide insights and recommendations.
Monitors and tracks performance, and addresses any issues.
Provides guidance to the project sponsor on the implementation and sustainment of projects, resulting in successful project outcomes.
Manages all aspects of the project lifecycle, including business, operational and technology deliverables.
Ensures all project processes are completed.
Ensures change management plans are developed, socialized and consistently measured to deliver the expected project benefits and adoption.
Executes project requirements in governance frameworks focused on risk appetite, regulatory and compliance standards.
Develops all related project management artifacts, while complying with applicable enterprise standards.
Monitors and controls project deliverables.
Makes recommendations and adjustments to the overall project plan to achieve deliverables.
Provides project sponsor with advice on the viability of the business case (costs, benefits, KPIs, etc.) throughout the project.
Understands project interdependencies and demonstrates critical thinking that proactively identifies project risks and establishes effective risk mitigation from the outset.
Demonstrates stakeholder partnership that involves effective communicating with the project sponsor; gains and builds trust and rapport.
Demonstrates ownership and commitment by holding themselves accountable for the identification and resolution of project problems.
Leads and/or represents the project in project team meetings, governance forums and inter-department forums.
Adheres to Bank risk, regulatory and compliance controls.
Take measured risks while protecting the bank by applying our Risk Management Framework in the execution of your role, in line with our Risk Culture and within our approved Risk Appetite, making sound and risk informed decisions that align to business strategy, protect assets, and adhere to applicable policy documents (Frameworks, Policies, Standards, Procedures and Supporting documents), laws and regulations.