Project Manager, PMO & OCM - Finance Continuous Improvement

Magna International • Aurora, ON

6d • Onsite

About The Position

The Project Manager is responsible for the planning, execution and monitoring of finance transformation projects within Global Business Services. This role requires a strong project management and collaboration skillset to be able to work on business projects together with our cross-functional groups ensuring consistency with the Magna Global Business Services strategy, commitments and goals.

Requirements

• Completion of a degree in Computer Science or a combination of education, training and experience deemed equivalent.
• Minimum 4 years’ progressive experience planning and implementing IT projects with cross-functional stakeholders from IT and business groups.
• Knowledge of the theories, principles and practices of project management and organizational change management.
• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, methodology development and application evaluation.
• Project management and supervisory principles and practices to supervise project staff and coordinate multiple complex projects under pressure to meet schedule and budget commitments.
• Basic Understanding of IT Infrastructure, network, databases, web applications.
• Excellent MS Office knowledge.
• Basic Understanding of data integration within application frameworks.
• Profound English communication skills
• "Hands-on" mentality
• Functional understanding of Data ETL processes
• Planning and organizing.
• Communication skills.
• Delegation.
• Teamwork.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills, decision making.
• Negotiation skills and political acuity to ensure that project conflicts and stakeholder requirements are managed to ensure a successful outcome.
• Interpersonal and oral/written communication skills to make presentations to senior management and other senior stakeholders.
• Adaptability.
• Stress tolerance.

Nice To Haves

• Project management professional (PMP) designation, CAPM, PMP or equivalent certification is an asset.
• Project experience of supporting large data set migration from legacy systems using Data ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes is an asset
• Smartsheet, Asana, MS Project experience is an advantage.
• Understanding data governance principles and compliance regulations is an asset
• Project experience based on technologies like MS SQL based web applications, MS Azure, MS PowerBI is an asset.
• Project experience of large data set migration using Data ETL (Extraction, Transformation and Load) process is an asset
• Project experience of implementing a Payroll / Time and Attendance system is an asset.
• Understanding development languages is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Planning and executing implementation of multiple business projects or strategic initiatives within the Global Business Services.
• Manage project scope, budget and timelines to meet defined project goals and deliverables.
• Provide support in developing and maintaining full scale project plans as well as evaluations and assessments of project performance against benchmark
• Coordinate with various project stream leads in gathering and documenting business functional and technical requirements together with functional teams / business units.
• Lead various workshop and huddle meetings with the project stream leads, functional teams and business units to review project status, key risks/issues and associated mitigation strategies.
• Maintain Risk log by documenting potential risks identified through project progress review
• Identify, document and manage project change requests in compliance with change requests management process
• Provide project management support to project leads in monitoring and controlling the execution of project tasks to ensure deadlines are met on time

Benefits

• Individual and functional development in a professional environment of a global acting business.
• Fair treatment and a sense of responsibility towards employees are the principle of the Magna culture.
• Inspiring and motivating work environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree