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Senior Director, Execution and Delivery, Payments and Trade Technology
RBC Financial Group
Ontario Toronto, , Canada
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What’s the opportunity?
As the leader of the Payments & Trade Technology (P&TT) Execution and Delivery Team, provides oversight, leadership, project management, and business analysis for all technology initiatives being designed and deployed by P&TT. Facilitates project planning and communications, creating communities for project managers and business systems analysts to ensure P&TT delivers on its commitments to stakeholders in accordance with budgets and timelines and that any conflicting priorities or resource constraints are identified and resolved in a timely manner. Works with members of Senior Management Team and other project leaders to ensure teams properly document, analyze, review and report on all key activities with the portfolio of initiatives being managed by P&TT, to support the achievement of business strategy and strategic priorities, including near-term and longer-term objectives.
What will you do?
Strategy & Planning:
• Define, communicate, maintain, and ensure the application of project governance policies and procedures.
• Facilitate project planning activities and integrate individual project strategies into an overall strategy to ensure the effective execution of projects within the P&TT portfolio of initiatives.
• Participate in budgeting and budget approval and monitoring of project financials.
• Ensure project scopes and related resourcing is effectively articulated and monitor project work to identify and address changes to project scopes and/or resource requirements in a timely manner.
• Share experiences, insights, and best practices to optimize the performance and productivity of project teams across P&TT and ensure activities are aligned with Technology and Operations (T&O) business strategies and priorities.
• Serve as a key point of contact and reference for the enterprise on P&TT strategy and initiatives.
• Identify and oversee the execution of improvements to project planning and project management processes to enhance the consistency and efficiency of project management processes and capabilities.
Project Management:
• Work with members of the SMT and project leaders to develop and manage a coordinated project portfolio for all initiatives across P&TT.
• Ensure integration and alignment of projects with P&TT strategy and priorities.
• Provide leadership and expert counsel in establishing and implementing standards, guidelines and best practices for the development and deployment of solutions.
• Lead the development and implementation of key development projects within the assigned budget, ensuring program success and ensure project management processes are in place, which evolve with changing standards.
• Work with project leaders engaged in internal and client-facing projects to ensure deliverables are met on time, on budget, and in accordance with T&O and RBC quality standards and other applicable polices and standards.
• Facilitate schedule and cost forecasting and mentor program/project managers in determining risk-based provisions.
• Champion the creation of metrics and manage and analyze key performance indicators and trends; differentiate between program and project metrics.
• Promote innovative or improved methods to get work done and facilitate the implementation of best practices.
• Prepare regular summary reports for VP and SLT, identifying risks and issues for attention, and developing recommendations.
• Provide overall governance and oversight of all projects and management documents.
Time Allocation (Percent)
• Project planning and strategy development: 20%
• Project management and reporting: 30%
• Change leadership and communications: 25%
• People management and development: 25%
What do you need to succeed?
• Experience leading large transformational projects
• Has successfully managed multiple projects or large cross-enterprise teams
• Minimum 7 to 10 years of relevant experience in leading and managing major environments
• Expert knowledge of project and program management methodologies
• Exceptional planning and problem solving skills
• Strong communication and relationship management capabilities
Authorities/Impact
• Approximately 35-40 FTEs and 5 – 10 contractors
• Direct influence on $20 - $50 million in “change the bank” projects annually
• Authorities as delegated for technology change initiatives in high transaction, large/complex and matrixed business
Change Leadership and Communication:
• Create effective interfaces and communities with project leaders, project teams and internal/external clients to support optimal and timely project-related communications.
• Provide members of the senior management team with timely updates on all material/strategic issues.
• Develop communication plans and materials to support regular communication, with consistent messaging, to all applicable stakeholders.
• Identify risks associated with P&TT portfolio of initiatives and facilitate resolution of challenges or development of risk mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with colleagues to support the timely and effective execution of work.
• Connects on a regular basis with business leaders to profile projects underway, in order to obtain their ongoing commitment
• Establish, develop and maintain strong relationships with business partners/ sponsors, internal and external partners
People Management and Development:
• Provide strong leadership and direction to team of project leaders, project managers, and business systems analysts to achieve a culture of high performance and superior individual, team results.
• Build management/leadership capability on team, coach and mentor managers, and hold managers accountable for their work.
• Facilitate collaboration across P&TT to optimize results, in alignment with the P&TT and T&O business strategies and priorities.
• Provide coaching & support to build project management capabilities across P&TT.
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.
• Working with a dynamic team offering major personal growth potential
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and educational opportunities
• Opportunities to do challenging work
• Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
• Opportunities to building close relationships with internal clients
• Ability via your effort to make a difference and lasting impact
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