Project Manager/Leader - Senior (PeopleSoft)

Job Title: Project Manager/Leader Senior (PeopleSoft)

Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Work Model: Onsite

Duration: 10 months

Extension: 1 Time

Security Clearance: CRJMC

Must Haves

• A hands on project manager who has lead multiple large ERP ($5M+) projects
• Significant expertise and experience in PeopleSoft HCM application
• Implementation of PeopleSoft Fluid and Classic Plus user interfaces, including experience implementing PeopleTools and PUM upgrades
• Experience working on Microsoft Azure cloud platform with RHEL/Windows OS and Oracle Database
• Experience working in a public sector environment

Description / Responsibilities / Skills

Description

• WIN system administers compensation for approximately 68,000 OPS employees, processes payroll and enables appropriate deductions and remittances to third parties.
• Digitize critical human resources and payroll processes that are currently manual or paper-based, including onboarding, benefits enrolment, and life events management.
• Enhance WIN by expanding additional employee and manager self-service capabilities (e.g., extension/end to probationary period, certificate numbers, badge numbers).
• Provides project management on large scale, complex, high profile and high risk projects for OPS GovTechON initiatives.
• Ensures project deliverables meet clients' business requirements on time, scope and budget, with a focus on cost-effectiveness, efficiencies and compliance with OPS project management methodologies.

General Skills

• Sources, selects and on-boards team members; clarifies roles and responsibilities and sets task/deliverable/performance expectations for OPS and FFS consultants.
• Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members.
• Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums; provides project/program/portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.

Deliverables

• Detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan
• Project budget estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals
• Risk and issue mitigation strategies and logs
• Steering committee and stakeholder reporting
• Project monitoring guidelines and procedures

Experience & Skill Set Requirements

General Skills:

• Leads organizational development, strategy development, business planning, and Ministry funding requests.
• Gathers and develops requirements in order to create and maintain a detailed project schedule and/or integrated plan.
• Ability to monitor and forecast project costs and provide reporting and input to ensure targets are met
• Experience developing and managing project schedules, deliverables, and scope
• Ability to promote I&IT project management best practices and adherence to standard methodologies
• Demonstrated experience directing project teams to ensure project deliverables are delivered on time and adhere to government and ministry standards
• Extensive experience coordinating and monitoring project processes, and developing/communicating guidelines and procedures
• Sources, selects and on-boards team members in various disciplines, clarify roles and responsibilities and set task/deliverable/performance expectations for resources that are both OPS unionized employees as well as fee for service (FFS) consultants.
• Resolves resourcing and inter-personal conflicts, negotiates changes to resourcing, ensures knowledge is shared among team members such as project objectives and deliverables are met.
• Develops complex project budgets based on multiple funding channels and cross ministry dependencies.
• Effectively manages large project budgets and ensures a high level of fiscal control and accountability including estimates, forecasts and reconciliation/confirmation of actuals.
• Proactively identifies potential risk events and issues before they occur so that proper mitigating strategies can be developed.
• Articulates and prioritizes issues and risks at senior executive levels and recommends mitigation strategies for decision makers.
• Establishes and participates in steering committee and stakeholder forums
• Provides, project, program, and/or portfolio reporting to multi-stakeholders at senior executive levels.
• Uses appropriate strategies and actions to overcome resistance to change and capitalize on forces in support of change during all stages of projects concept, definition, planning, implementation and close-out.
• Promotes OPS I&IT standards and best practices for project management to facilitate control of system quality, adherence to standard methodology and the control of the use of I&IT resources.

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge and understanding of Project Management's Institute's Project Management Body of Knowledge
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles, concepts, policies and practices
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
• Ability to make recommendations on the acquisition of software, hardware, and technology resources
• Experience managing and coordinating project monitoring, anticipates and troubleshoots issues, provides ongoing expertise, resolves problems and provides project effectiveness
• Ability to identify conflict between project and functional areas and develops responses to successfully address conflict
• Ability to handle client relationships to manage expectations, provides updates as required, identifies potential conflicts between project and functional areas

Nice to have:

• Prior OPS/public sector exp with HCM/Peoplesoft related project work as a PM.