Project Control Officer

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

Our RBC Project Delivery and Management is currently hiring a Project Control Officer to support a large Agile Program. In this exciting role you will support benefit and budget management and financial tracking. You will also assist the Program Manager with executive reporting, maintaining program roadmaps, managing tracking logs and artefact storage and access. This role has opportunity to be involved in a priority ‘Change the Bank’ initiative with broad exposure and ability to build agile project management skills for the right individual.

What will you do?

• Partners with Senior Project/Program Managers in the creation of detailed large integrated roadmaps, ensuring that dependencies are established
• Communicates and resolves financial variance issues with the project team
• Pro-actively and immediately identifies all risks related to project schedule/ dependencies to the Project Manager and recommends mitigation strategies
• Follows up with Team Leads/Team members regarding changes to resources and/or tasks
• Prepares regular reporting for Senior Management/Executive view as per the program’s governance model
• Monitors, documents and supports program Benefit/Cost/Financial Management control processes
• Tracks project financials (e.g. funding amounts, contract invoices and resource forecasting) and assists in the development and analysis of financial reporting (e.g. identify tracking variances of actuals, forecast and plan, integrate risks / issues with financial forecasting)
• Maintain access and organization of project sharepoint site

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• At least 2 years of experience related to roadmap development, scheduling, status reporting and project cost management
• Working knowledge of AMF and Experience working in Agile teams
• Advanced knowledge of MS Project, Powerpoint and Excel
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Working knowledge of Planview and Leankit
• Organizational Awareness / Effective stakeholder management
• Effectively manages working through others by articulating clear deliverables & accountability
• Strong collaboration skills, financial acumen for projects and proven facilitation / presentation skills

Nice-to-have

• Undergraduate degree Finance/Accounting
• Has a good understanding of the business functions and relevant core processes and how they interact
• PMP

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team, continuous improvement, Growth and Agile mindset
• Opportunities to do challenging work

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JOB SUMMARY
City: Toronto
Address: 88 Queens Quay W
Work Hours/Week: 37.5
Work Environment: Office
Employment Type: Permanent
Career Level: Experienced Hire/Professional
Pay Type: Salary + Variable Bonus
Required Travel(%): 0
Exempt/Non-Exempt: N/A
People Manager: No
Application Deadline: 09/01/2021
Platform: Technology and Operations
Req ID: 403522
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