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About the Role

The Manager, Portfolio Governance and Operations will lead the day-to-day governance and operational management of Spin Master's global IT portfolio, ensuring consistent governance, financial discipline, portfolio visibility, and reporting across IT initiatives. This role focuses on managing the health, governance, financials, and operations of the overall IT portfolio and continuously improving PMO operations.

Responsibilities

Own and manage the day-to-day PMO portfolio governance process, from Intake and Estimates & Sizing through Stage Gates and project closure.
Manage the IT portfolio governance calendar and ensure projects are prepared for key governance reviews, decisions, and approvals.
Lead portfolio-level financial tracking, forecasting, budget reporting, and reconciliation, partnering closely with Project Managers, IT Finance, Procurement, and business stakeholders.
Monitor project budgets, actuals, forecasts, CAPEX/OPEX, purchase orders, and financial variances, proactively identifying issues requiring action or escalation.
Own and prepare portfolio and executive reporting, including project health, financials, risks, milestones, capacity, and key decisions required.
Support the Director, IT PMO with portfolio reporting and materials for CIO, VP, Prioritization Committee, and other executive governance forums.
Own PMO reporting standards and dashboards across Jira, Confluence, EasyBI/Power BI, ensuring portfolio data is accurate, current, and executive-ready.
Drive Jira and Confluence governance across the PMO, including project setup, data standards, reporting structures, and overall data quality.
Review project artifacts including Business Cases, Charters, RAID logs, status reports, change requests, financials, and Closure Reports to ensure they meet PMO standards.
Partner with Project Managers to identify governance gaps, financial risks, reporting issues, and required corrective actions.
Maintain and continuously improve PMO templates, processes, standards, and ways of working.
Track portfolio capacity, resource demand, project pipeline, and upcoming delivery needs to support portfolio planning and prioritization.
Support annual IT planning and prioritization activities, including portfolio data, financial information, project pipeline, and governance readiness.
Provide PMO guidance and coaching to Project Managers and project teams to drive consistency and strengthen governance practices.
Support audit and compliance requirements related to project governance, financial controls, and PMO documentation.
Identify opportunities to automate and improve PMO reporting, processes, and portfolio visibility.

Requirements

5+ years of progressive experience in PMO, portfolio governance, project/program management, financial management, or a related IT delivery function.
Experience working within a large enterprise IT environment.
Experience working with enterprise platforms and environments such as SAP is an asset.
Experience within consumer products, retail, manufacturing, digital, or entertainment industries is an asset.

Skills

Jira
Confluence
EasyBI/Power BI

Location

Ontario

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

5+ years

Education Level

Post-secondary education in Business, Technology, Finance, Project Management, or a related discipline.
PMP, CAPM, Agile, or related project/portfolio certification is an asset.

Salary/Compensations

$95,000 to $105,000 Per Annum

Benefits

Growth and Career Opportunities
Flexible Work Hours
Innovation, Collaboration and Fun
Comprehensive Benefits
Other fun Perks!

About the Company

Spin Master is a leading global children's toy, entertainment and digital gaming company.
Our unwavering commitment to open mindedness, integrity and innovation is a great part of what has made us an industry leader.
Spin Master is a fast-paced, hands-on organization that provides many great opportunities for impactful decision-making.
Our challenging start-up atmosphere isn’t for everyone, we have a proven record of opportunities for future advancement and internal transfers for our passionate and results driven team.
Our mission is to Make Life More Fun with a vision to push the boundaries of innovation, creativity, and fun.

Equal Opportunity

Everyone is welcome in our sandbox and we are committed to an accessible and inclusive hiring process that provides reasonable accommodation to all applicants.
Spin Master strives to create an accessible and inclusive application and selection process and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to job applicants who may require provisions to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment processes. Should you require an accommodation, please contact our Talent Acquisition team, by email at TAinquiries@spinmaster.com or by phone at 416 364-6002 and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.