Project Manager - Toronto, Canada - Univeris Corp

Univeris Corp

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

The Company

Univeris, headquartered in Toronto, Canada, is a privately held company and is the leader in enterprise wealth management for the Canadian market.

Founded in 1991, Univeris has over 80 staff and 15 leading financial services clients representing over 12,000 financial advisors on the platform.

It offers the most comprehensive wealth management solution for financial advisors in the credit union, banking, insurance and investment dealer sectors.

Univeris is a world-class technology platform that boasts a number of firsts in Canadian mutual fund distribution including real-time processing, web access, built-in compliance, plus GIC and segregated funds processing capabilities.

Technology innovation is one of the cornerstones of Univeris' product development strategy and through its Evergreen approach to technology, new features and capabilities transparently integrate into the platform.

The Opportunity*The Role
You will act as the Project Manager for a group of cross-functional product development teams and collaborate with Program Management to ensure that releases are delivered on time and that clients are kept informed of upcoming changes

Your responsibilities will include:

Contribute in developing a detailed project plan to track progress
Ensure that all projects are delivered ontime, within scope and within budget
Maintaining and monitoring project and release schedules
Identifying project risks and issues and collaborating on mitigating them
Facilitate change requests to ensure that all parties are informed of the impacts on schedule and budget.
Report and escalate to management as needed
Coordinating and reporting progress on projectrelated activities with program management and other project stakeholders
Organizing, leading and participating in stakeholder meetings
Documenting and following up on important actions and decisions from meetings
Preparing necessary presentation materials for meetings
Providing administrative support as needed
Ensuring projects adhere to frameworks and all documentation is maintained appropriately for each project
Ensure stakeholder views are managed towards the best solution
Chair and facilitate meetings where appropriate and distribute minutes to all project team members
Maintain the release management calendar

Your Formal Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in business or related field of study
34 years of experience in Project Management within the software development life cycle
Verified proficiency in key features of the Google Workspace Jira and excel platform including Drive, Gmail, Google Meet, Docs, Sheets, Forms, and Slides.

Your Proven Qualities

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of maintaining strong relationships
Can work independently and resolve problem quickly without a direct supervision
Strong organizational and multitasking skills
Excellent analytical and problemsolving abilities
Teammanagement and leadership skills
Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team

Extras You Might Offer As Tiebreakers

CAPM Certification or similar
Familiar with Financial Industry, Wealth Management, Investments, FinTech or other financial related fields
Experience trading stocks or making personal investment decisions
Experience working for a Wealth Management, FinTech or Enterprise software vendor

The Work Environment

Our location is downtown Toronto in a small office environment
Work may be inoffice, remote or hybrid, collaborating with other team members inpersonal and digitally during regular business hours

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.