Senior Project Manager

If you are looking to join one of Canada’s fastest growing companies, goeasy Ltd. is the place for you! Recognized as Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures, GTA's Top 100 Employers, one of Canada’s Top 50 Fintech’s and North America’s Most Engaged Workplaces, we want the best and brightest to join our team.

We are a publicly traded company on the TSX with over 4000% shareholder return since 2001, goeasy operates two main business units. Accredited by the Better Business Bureau, easyfinancial is our consumer lending business that offers secured and unsecured installment loans of up to $45,000 and easyhome is Canada’s largest merchandise lease-to-own company. It is our vision to provide everyday Canadians the path for a better tomorrow, today by giving them access to the credit they need and by offering them a second chance when they have been turned down by banks and traditional lenders. With a retail network of nearly 400 locations across Canada and over 2000 employees, we are able to build lasting relationships with our customers as we help them rebuild their credit and graduate towards prime rates and a brighter financial future.

goeasy is seeking a dynamic, well experienced and innovative Sr. Project Manager for our Project Delivery Office who ensures that our innovative and creative projects are executed and delivered. With our record breaking growth comes a business that is fast paced and exciting and requires this individual to be someone who can handle large, complex projects and successfully navigate risk while being exposed to many areas of the business. This opportunity is of interest to someone who is seeking a career adventure that represents a chance to put their stamp on a great Canadian business story.  

Responsibilities:

• Delivering projects to meet time, budget and scope expectations
• Successfully manage a number of projects simultaneously
• Drive all aspects of project delivery including defining project scope, specifying deliverables, estimating project duration, effort and cost, managing project budget, creating detailed project plans, schedules and managing change requests
• Act as the primary liaison between all team members assigned to a project, IT and business
• Motivate project team members for successful delivery of project objectives
• Ensure project success by driving execution through the application of sound project management principles and methodologies
• Maintain regular communications with team and business stakeholders to ensure necessary and appropriate steps are taken to resolve difficulties, which may impede progress or compromise achievement of project’s objectives
• Maintain a detailed status, activities and issues reports on each project to present to Senior Leadership and major project stakeholders
• Proactively identify, quantify, mitigate, and manage risks
• Work closely with Resource Managers to ensure each project team has established meaningful, key metrics that properly reflect the performance of the team and indicates progress towards objectives
• Chairs regular core team and key governance forums (e.g. team stand-ups, Steering Committees) to review progress with key constituents
• Provides project leadership to ensure the vision and objectives of the project/transformation are driven properly, and meets expectations
• Contribute to the maturation of goeasy Project Delivery Office standards, methodologies, processes and governance

Qualifications:

• A minimum of 5 years in-depth experience managing complex projects
• Experience managing project budgets > 1M
• Ability to manage challenging Stakeholders and high expectations
• Results-focused; will go above and beyond to ensure project is delivered
• Detail oriented with excellent analytical and problem solving skills, including the ability to deal with situations where information is difficult to obtain, complex or ambiguous
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, effective at the senior executive level
• Sound business and technical acumen, with demonstrated agility in learning and ability to quickly become comfortable with unfamiliar businesses areas or of technologies
• Strong leadership skills, and the ability to lead teams from varied backgrounds (business, technology, operations, etc.)
• Enterprise mindset and strong analytical capabilities
• Show initiative and creativity in providing solutions
• Capability to prioritize and multitask; organized and detail-oriented
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills are necessary to effectively convey goals and initiatives to team members and top management. Extensive experience building and delivering presentations
• Proactive, energetic, professional self-starter with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
• PMP designation is an asset

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

goeasy is an equal opportunity employer. In addition, goeasy is committed to providing accommodations for applicants upon request at any stage of the recruitment process in accordance with all legislative requirements throughout Canada.   Please let us know if you require an accommodation due to a disability during any aspect of the recruitment process and we will work with you to address your needs.

Additional Information:

All candidates considered for hire must successfully pass a criminal background check, credit check, and validation of their work experience to qualify for hire.  We thank all interested applicants, however we will only be contacting those for interview who possess the skills and qualifications outlined above.

Why should you work for goeasy?

To learn more about our great company please click the links below:

http://goeasy.com/careers/

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