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About the Role

The Senior Project Manager will lead the planning, execution, governance, and delivery of large, complex, and high-impact technology initiatives. This role requires a seasoned project leader experienced in managing cross-functional teams, navigating complex stakeholder environments, and driving outcomes across business, technology, vendor, and executive leadership groups. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong project delivery discipline, proactive risk and issue management, excellent communication skills, and the ability to develop clear, executive-ready presentations. This individual must be comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment, managing competing priorities, influencing stakeholders at all levels, and ensuring initiatives are delivered on time, within scope, within budget, and aligned to business objectives.

Responsibilities

Lead the planning, execution, governance, and delivery of large-scale, complex technology and business initiatives, ensuring alignment with scope, timelines, budget, quality, and business outcomes.
Manage complex initiatives spanning multiple business units, technology teams, vendors, and stakeholder groups, ensuring accountability, alignment, and transparency.
Develop and maintain strong relationships with executive sponsors, senior leaders, business stakeholders, technology partners, vendors, and project teams.
Provide clear, concise, and executive-ready project updates, dashboards, presentations, and recommendations to senior and executive leadership.
Proactively identify, assess, manage, and escalate project risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions, ensuring timely mitigation.
Lead project governance activities, including steering committee updates, status reporting, decision tracking, RAID management, financial tracking, change control, and stakeholder communications.
Translate complex project information into meaningful insights and recommendations for various audiences.
Manage all aspects of project engagement, including planning, communications, resources, budget, vendor relationships, change management, risks, issues, and delivery reporting.
Understand and manage interdependencies between business needs, technology solutions, operational impacts, resource capacity, financial considerations, and organizational priorities.
Work closely with technology leads, business partners, vendors, and portfolio stakeholders to ensure project delivery supports broader portfolio objectives.
Establish and maintain effective project plans, schedules, milestones, deliverables, and reporting mechanisms.
Facilitate decision-making by preparing clear options, impact assessments, recommendations, and escalation materials.
Lead and support cross-functional project teams, fostering a collaborative, accountable, and high-performance culture.
Participate in the development and continuous improvement of project management standards, delivery practices, tools, templates, and methodologies.
Identify opportunities to improve delivery effectiveness, stakeholder engagement, communication practices, governance, and risk management.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Information Technology, or a related field.
PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, or equivalent project management certification is preferred.
Minimum of 10 years of progressive project management experience, with demonstrated success leading large, complex technology or business transformation initiatives.
Proven experience managing senior stakeholders, executive sponsors, steering committees, cross-functional teams, and vendor partners.
Strong experience with proactive risk, issue, dependency, and decision management across complex project environments.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to prepare and deliver presentations, project updates, and recommendations to senior and executive leadership teams.
Strong facilitation, influencing, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to manage ambiguity, competing priorities, and complex organizational dynamics while maintaining delivery focus and stakeholder confidence.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-support skills.
Experience managing project budgets, resources, timelines, schedules, change control, and governance reporting.
Strong understanding of Waterfall, Agile, and hybrid project delivery methodologies.
Proficiency with project management and reporting tools such as Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, and other delivery management platforms.
Ability to work independently while also leading and collaborating effectively within cross-functional teams.
Experience supporting technology delivery, business transformation, process improvement, or enterprise-level initiatives is considered an asset.

Skills

Executive-level communication and presentation skills
Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building
Proactive risk, issue, and dependency management
Delivery leadership for large and complex initiatives
Strategic thinking with strong execution discipline
Governance, accountability, and decision facilitation
Ability to influence without direct authority
Strong collaboration across business, technology, and vendor teams

Location

Ontario Region

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior
10+ years

Education Level

Bachelor's degree

Salary/Compensations

$106,500 to $156,500

Benefits

Comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards program
Eligible for bonus awards

About the Company

KPMG in Canada's people bring unique perspectives to Canada’s most important challenges.
KPMG's values: Integrity, Excellence, Courage, Together, For Better.
KPMG is a technology-first, people-driven firm.

Equal Opportunity

KPMG in Canada is a proud equal opportunities employer and is committed to creating a respectful, inclusive and barrier-free workplace.
A diverse workforce is key to our success.
We welcome all qualified candidates to apply.
Adjustments and accommodations throughout the recruitment process are available upon request.