Story Behind the Need:

• Business group: Cards Global Technology Products
• Cards Global Technology supports the end-to-end technology needs of bank’s Canadian banking business, including a broad range of banking products and services from savings and chequing accounts to credit cards and commercial loans. Joining our team gives you access to great opportunities with a wide range of traditional and emerging technologies while delivering innovative solutions for our business applications and platforms.

Projects:

• We are looking for an energetic and results-driven Project Co-Ordinator. The main function of a Project Coordinator is to provide project support to staff and providing general administrative duties as needed.
• A typical Project Coordinator arranges schedules and regulates flow of work within or between organizational groups or businesses.

Candidate Value Proposition:

• The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work within bank. We are technology partners who help the business transform how our employees around the world work.
• You will get to work with and learn from diverse industry leaders, who have hailed from top technology.

Typical Day in Role:

• Undertake the co-ordination of project roll – out initiatives and special projects as assigned.
• The main responsibilities of a project coordinator include working with team members to create a realistic timeline, following up with team members to ensure everything is running smoothly, and tracking project progress in a variety of ways.
• Participate in meetings with internal stakeholders and task members to determine progress of work and identify additional follow up needs.
• Provide general administrative support including weekly cadence for certain follow-up and obtain statuses, setting up meetings and/or meeting arrangements.
• Compile reports concerning progress of work and downtime to distribute to personnel involved in project.
• Ensuring documentation is maintained throughout the length of the project.
• Communicating plans, actions, risks, and issues with key stakeholders
• Managing and building relationships with multiple teams
• Assisting the Director and Sr. Manager with administrative functions and processes
• Analyzing project data and producing progress reports.

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

• 3-4 years of strong MS Excel skills required to manage, track, and report the project budget.
• Excellent Written and verbal communication skills.
• Great Interpersonal skills to be able to interface effectively with a broad range of contacts from technical staff to senior management.
• Organizational skills with the ability to handle multiple concurrent activities and to work successfully under pressure.
• Can deal with ambiguity and requests for change.

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• 2-3 years of experience in the coordinator role, specifically in the Banking/Financial field would be an asset.
• Good knowledge of retail banking products and services
• Having experience in Project Management is an asset.
• Basic level of VISIO is an asset.

Soft Skills Required:

• Ability to analyze complex situations and problems and do the necessary research using multiple sources of information to arrive at innovative solutions.
• Ability to work as part of a team, as well as work independently or with minimal direction.
• Integrity, high attention to detail, thoroughness and accuracy are critical to ensure quality outputs.
• He/she must be flexible and reliable to conduct work within a team environment, willing to share knowledge and ideas, and display initiative in most situations as autonomy is expected.
• A high level of energy, enthusiasm and commitment is also necessary.
• Strong human relations/personal skills are essential.

Education & Certificates:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience/education.

Best VS. Average Candidate:

• Having project management experience along with strong excel experience will make the candidate stand out to the HM.