Senior Project Manager - Compliance, Bank ActLocation: Toronto, ON
Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid
Contract Details- Position Type: Contract
- Contract Duration: 6 months
- Pay Rate: C$90.00–C$100.00 / Hour (CAD)
Job SummaryOur client, a leading Canadian financial institution, is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to lead a regulatory technology initiative supporting Bank Act compliance requirements. This is a hands-on technology delivery role requiring strong experience managing projects through the full SDLC/PDLC, with accountability across application development, testing, implementation, governance, and project financials. A key requirement is strong project accounting and financial management - the successful candidate must be able to confidently manage and explain budgets, forecasts, actuals, accruals, vendor spend, and financial variances.
Key ResponsibilitiesTechnology Delivery
- Lead end-to-end delivery of a complex regulatory compliance technology project.
- Translate regulatory and business requirements into executable technology plans.
- Manage delivery across development, architecture, data, QA, infrastructure, security, business, Compliance, and Risk teams.
- Maintain project plans, milestones, dependencies, RAID logs, and executive reporting.
- Drive issue resolution, risk mitigation, and escalation across internal teams and vendors.
- Manage testing, release readiness, implementation, and post-production activities.
- Ensure appropriate traceability between regulatory requirements, technology changes, and testing outcomes.
- Maintain strong governance and documentation to support compliance and audit requirements.
Project Financial Management
- Own project budgets, forecasts, actuals, and financial reporting.
- Track contractor, vendor, and internal resource costs.
- Manage accruals, invoices, purchase orders, and financial commitments.
- Perform budget-to-actual and forecast variance analysis.
- Identify financial risks, overruns, or funding gaps early.
- Provide clear financial updates to senior stakeholders.
Required Experience- 7 years of experience managing complex technology projects, ideally within banking or financial services.
- Strong experience leading SDLC / software development projects.
- Previous experience delivering regulatory, compliance, risk, or mandatory-change initiatives.
- Strong project financial management experience, including budgets, forecasts, actuals, accruals, and vendor spend.
- Experience working across Technology, Business, Compliance, Risk, and Operations teams.
- Experience managing third-party vendors and complex enterprise delivery environments.
Required Skills- Strong governance, risk, dependency, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Strong communication skills with both executive and technical stakeholders.
Preferred Skills- Previous experience within a major Canadian bank or regulated financial institution.
- Familiarity with the Bank Act and Canadian financial-services regulation.
- Experience delivering regulatory remediation or compliance-driven technology initiatives.
- PMP or related project-management certification.
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Job Number: 26-16857
