Senior Analyst, IT Project Management – Center of Excellence

at  Air Canada

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:

• Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of interest, at the time any offer of employment is made and seeking any required work permits/visas or other authorizations which may be required is the sole responsibility of the candidates applying for this position.

LINGUISTIC REQUIREMENTS

Based on equal qualifications, preference will be given to bilingual candidates.

Qualifications

• A relevant university degree / technical certification (and/or relevant experience).
• 6-8 years of IT technology or operations experience in a large company. Minimum of 5+ years’ experience supporting or managing complex projects.
• Certification in Project Management by a recognized project management organization required.
• Experience in Agile and Scrum methodologies highly preferred.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally, communicate succinctly and efficiently, build consensus and handle complex projects in similar environments.
• Exceptional verbal, written and presentation skills.
• Strong organizational, analytical, relationship management and communication skills.
• Ability to manage a project plan in a hybrid agile and waterfall delivery models an asset.
• High proficiency in MS Office 365 Applications (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, SharePoint, etc.)

• Responsible for working within all stages of project management, primary role being to work closely with project managers to ensure compliance to project gating and monitoring processes.
• Provides recommendations to improve planning, implementation and tracking of projects against proposed schedule and deliverables; review end to end project governance, including measurement of objectives & metrics.
• Conducts regular compliance reviews to ensure that projects are operating in line with the project management gating framework. Compliance reviews will consider the following 4 areas:
• Project governance
• Alignment to project management gating framework
• Financial management
• Communication management
• Utilizes various review methodologies such as interviews, detailed document assessments and controls validation to determine compliance with project governance requirements.
• Reviews project governance execution to ensure critical project management artifacts have been completed such as project charters, baseline plans, change requests, status reports, milestones, RACI achievements, benefits, internal/external resource plans, vendor management plans & KPIs etc.
• Reviews project governance execution to ensure that the following reviews are in place: project status & progress reviews, RAID reviews, steering committee reviews.
• Develops compliance reports that detail non-compliances and assign prioritizations based for size, risk and impact. Work with project owners to recommend, develop and implement acceptable remediation plans.
• Ensures that stakeholder analysis has been completed and that effective communication models are in place to meet stakeholders needs.
• Escalates high risk non-compliances in an effective and timely manner.
• Drive monthly / quarterly project compliance reporting to support overall IT Shared Services reporting framework.
• Provides coaching and training to the PM community to further the adoption and compliance to the gating governance framework.
• Provides input to the relevant stakeholders on Project Management skills gaps noted through compliance reviews.
• Participate in Project Management Center of Excellence initiatives; provide recommendations for continuous improvement and emerging best practices in project management, participate and advise on PPM Tooling requirements, and other related duties that may be assigned.

Qualifications

• A relevant university degree / technical certification (and/or relevant experience).
• 6-8 years of IT technology or operations experience in a large company. Minimum of 5+ years’ experience supporting or managing complex projects.
• Certification in Project Management by a recognized project management organization required.
• Experience in Agile and Scrum methodologies highly preferred.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally, communicate succinctly and efficiently, build consensus and handle complex projects in similar environments.
• Exceptional verbal, written and presentation skills.
• Strong organizational, analytical, relationship management and communication skills.
• Ability to manage a project plan in a hybrid agile and waterfall delivery models an asset.
• High proficiency in MS Office 365 Applications (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, SharePoint, etc.).