Job Description

What is expected of the Project Manager?

• Leveraging best in class project management principles, the PM will lead the IT organization in implementing a pay and benefits SaaS solution to meet business needs and outcomes.
• Manage stakeholder relationships with business areas, vendor, and internal IT team to ensure successful project delivery.
• Support and lead executive steering committee project meetings to gain consensus, collaboration and endorsement.
• Develop industry standard project documentation to support project delivery.
• Lead project team to manage deliverables to scope.
• Ability to support a new business in developing solutions.
• Mobilizing the Project Team: Actively driving all deliverables forward by closely collaborating and coordinating with project team members.
• Overseeing comprehensive business analysis and system design.
• Ensuring robust security and privacy measures are embedded.
• Formulating and executing a detailed testing strategy.
• Spearheading organization-wide communications and change management.
• Leading configuration efforts in the User Acceptance Testing (UAT) environment.
• Managing data preparation and validation for UAT.
• Supervising the deployment into the production environment.
• Overseeing end-user training initiatives.
• Establishing a post-implementation support model in collaboration with the Ontario government\'s Service Centre and partners.

• Deep project leadership experience with demonstrated ability to manage multiple stakeholders to collaborate.
• Experience leading successful Pay and Benefits project.
• Experience in managing and building complex stakeholder relationships.
• Experience in developing critical project delivery artefacts.
• Understanding of complexities involving pay and benefits.
• Experience managing executive-level stakeholders, and driving steering committee meetings.
• Experience and understanding of project governance, principles and best practices.
• Understanding of audit, security, and privacy principles and processes.
• Understanding of public sector processes would be beneficial.
• Understanding of audit principles and processes.

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