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Form of workJob Type: Permanent
Reference code: 125405
Primary Location: Toronto, ON
All Available Locations: Calgary, AB; Ottawa, ON; Toronto, ON
Our Purpose
At Deloitte, we are driven to inspire and help our people, organization, communities, and country to thrive. Our Purpose is to build a better future by accelerating and expanding access to knowledge. Purpose defines who we are and gives us reason to exist as an organization.
By living our Purpose, we will make an impact that matters.
- Enjoy flexible, proactive, and practical benefits that foster a culture of well-being and connectedness.
- Experience a firm where wellness matters.
- Be expected to share your ideas and to make them a reality.
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What will your typical day look like?
This is a key role at the heart of the Global Audit & Assurance Transformation & Change (GAATC) Program as part of the Integrated Program Management Office (IPMO). Additionally, this role is critical to the execution of projects and workstreams enabling program delivery spanning operating areas of people, process, and technology, including management of workstream plans to achieve Program objectives, dependency management, risk/issue active management/ escalations, reporting execution, and workstream leader/stakeholder management.
This role will support delivery of Transformation projects, including core products and enabling technologies, and be responsible for liaising across workstream stakeholders and IT function to support successful delivery. Additionally, this role is in the IPMO Program Management pillar, including maintenance of project schedules and timelines, relationship management across key stakeholders, along with management of program risks, issues, and dependencies feeding into executive prioritization and decision making. The role faces an extraordinarily complex program that requires establishment of credibility, relationship building, and technical knowledge to apply the judgement and discretion demanded by this role.
Our Global Audit & Assurance Transformation & Change IPMO Project Manager will need to apply deep experience in program management to negotiate challenging discussions with program stakeholders around overall strategy, priorities, meeting deadlines, risks & issues escalation, etc.
Responsibilities:
- Develop project schedules and timelines and manage projects to completion, obtaining buy-in from key stakeholders and leadership on plans
- Identify obstacles to delivery and effectively plan mitigations and workarounds to achieve milestones on-time
- Track, manage and escalate project risks & issues
- Identify project interdependencies across Program workstreams and effectively plan project timelines based on these interdependencies
- Manage relationships with key (including senior) stakeholders inside and outside of GAA (Global Audit & Assurance) to ensure successful delivery
- Ensure timely communication flow between project leadership and key stakeholders in pursuit of alignment of decision making
About the team
Global Audit & Assurance delivers a strong foundation of audit practices for Deloitte around the world. We leverage new ideas and technologies to raise quality standards, drive growth and Change, and define the audit of the future.
Enough about us, let's talk about you
Qualifications:
- Minimum 7 years of work experience, with 3 years in Program or Project Management
- Bachelor's degree or similar professional qualification in the Program/Project management field
- Demonstrated ability to build relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organization both within Business and IT functions
- Experienced with delivering large-scale technology and/or data projects, including understanding of the software development lifecycle
- Able to build and grow trust in context of strong, collaborative relationships with various stakeholders and team members
- Demonstrated knowledge and effective application of Project Management Institute (PMI) PM standard methodology, tools and techniques
- Experience tracking, managing, and escalating Program risks & issues, including development of mitigation strategies in collaboration with the project team and leadership
- Experience with core PM tools including Microsoft Project, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Access, etc.), and others
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Some guide teams, some change culture, some build essential expertise. We offer opportunities and experiences that support your continuing growth as a leader.
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We are uniquely able to offer you new challenges and roles - and prepare you for them. We bring together people with unique experiences and talents, and we are the place to develop a lasting network of friends, peers, and mentors. Our TVP is about relationships - between leaders and their people, the firm and its people, peers, and within in our communities.
The next step is yours
At Deloitte, we are all about doing business inclusively - that starts with having diverse colleagues of all abilities. Deloitte encourages applications from all qualified candidates who represent the full diversity of communities across Canada. This includes, but is not limited to, people with disabilities, candidates from Indigenous communities, and candidates from the Black community in support of living our values, creating a culture of Diversity Equity and Inclusion and our commitment to our AccessAbility Action Plan, Reconciliation Action Plan and the BlackNorth Initiative.
We encourage you to connect with us at accessiblecareers@deloitte.ca if you require an accommodation for the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms or other accommodations) or indigenouscareers@deloitte.ca for any questions relating to careers for Indigenous peoples at Deloitte (First Nations, Inuit, Métis).
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