Project Control Officer

Job Description

What is the Opportunity?As a Project Control Officer within HR PMO group you will serve as a critical strategic partner to Program/Project Managers and Leadership, ensuring programs and projects are delivered on time, within budget, and in full compliance with organizational governance standards. You are the HR PMO’s eyes and ears for project health, financial integrity, and risk management, translating complex project data into actionable intelligence for leadership decision-making.What will you do?1. Financial Control & Governance

• Establish and maintain rigorous cost management frameworks, tracking actual spend against approved budgets with real time variance analysis.

• Support financial forecasting with integrated risk and issue modeling to support accurate executive reporting.

• Facilitate monthly financial reviews, escalating variances and risks to drive corrective action.

2. Schedule & Program Integration

• Assist project Manager when required to develop integrated, master level program schedules that consolidate multi stream dependencies and identify critical path risks.

• Create visual roadmaps (dependency diagrams, milestone trackers, timeline artifacts) that communicate program complexity to all governance levels.

• Proactively identify Project risks, conflicts, and optimization opportunities, recommending mitigation strategies.

• Maintain schedule discipline and baseline integrity throughout program lifecycle.

3. Risk, Compliance & Governance Assurance

• Conduct periodic risk and compliance assessments, ensuring 100% alignment with RBC’s risk governance frameworks and regulatory requirements.

• Maintain a centralized risk, issue, assumption, and dependency (RAID) register with real-time escalation protocols.

• Act as compliance steward, ensuring all regulatory and organizational control requirements are embedded in program execution.

• Provide early warning indicators on emerging risks that could impact program or organizational objectives.

4. Stakeholder Communication & Intelligence

• Serve as the central intelligence hub, synthesizing project data into executive-ready narratives, dashboards, and reports.

• Support Project/Program managers for executive steering committee meetings, IRB presentations, and status communications with tailored insights.

• Manage critical program documentation, establishing the single source of truth for all program artifacts.

• Exercise strategic discretion in escalation and communications, ensuring the right information reaches the right stakeholders at the right time.

What You Will Deliver

• Integrated program-level plans with comprehensive dependency mapping and risk-adjusted timelines.

• Real-time financial health dashboards with variance analysis, forecast trending, and compliance indicators.

• Monthly executive reporting packages with clear status, risks, actuals vs. plan, and recommended actions.

• Risk governance assurance, maintaining regulatory alignment and organizational compliance across all program activities.

• Consolidated resource utilization tracking and optimization recommendations.

• Program repository management (SharePoint, Planview, MS Project, EPM tools) as the hub for program intelligence.

• Best-practice acceleration by promoting PMO standards, methodologies, and tools adoption across the enterprise.

What You Need to SucceedMust-Have:

• 3+ years of program/project control experience.

• Demonstrated expertise in risk management or regulatory/compliance project delivery.

• Fair understanding of financial risk infrastructure and regulatory capital requirements.

• Proficiency in cost management, risk-based planning, and integrated reporting methodologies.

• Ability to navigate enterprise PM tools (Eg: Planview, MS Project, Planner) and financial tracking systems (Eg: MIS).

• Ability to extract, analyze, and present complex financial and schedule data to executive audiences.

• Strong communication skills translating technical details into business relevant insights.

Nice-to-Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, or Risk Management.

• PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project management certification.

• Experience with Agile/hybrid delivery models.

• Knowledge of banking operations and financial control frameworks.

• Experience managing relationships across Finance, HRIT, and business functions.

What’s in it for you?We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable.

• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities.

• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.

• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.

• A world-class training program in financial services.

• Opportunities to do challenging work.

Job SkillsCalendar Management, Communication, Data Gathering Analysis, Detail-Oriented, Group Problem Solving, Project Administration, Time Management, Waterfall ModelAdditional Job Details

Address:

20 KING ST W:TORONTO

City:

Toronto

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

HUMAN RESOURCES & BMCC

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-06-09

Application Deadline:

2026-06-24Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date aboveOur Employment OpportunitiesAt RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC. We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.

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