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What we offer:

At Magna, you can expect an engaging and dynamic environment where you can help to develop industry-leading automotive technologies. We invest in our employees, providing them with the support and resources they need to succeed. As a member of our global team, you can expect exciting, varied responsibilities as well as a wide range of development prospects. Because we believe that your career path should be as unique as you are.

Group Summary:

Magna is more than one of the world’s largest suppliers in the automotive space. We are a mobility technology company built to innovate, with a global, entrepreneurial-minded team. With 65+ years of expertise, our ecosystem of interconnected products combined with our complete vehicle expertise uniquely positions us to advance mobility in an expanded transportation landscape.

Job Responsibilities:

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.

Major 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

Knowledge and Education

• 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.

Work Experience

• 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.

Skills and Competencies

• Excellent MS Office knowledge.
• Basic Understanding of data integration within application frameworks.
• Understanding development languages is an asset.
• 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.