It Project Manager

About the Company :

As the founding entity of RAINBOW PARTNERS, Quanteam is a consulting firm specializing in Banking, Finance, and Financial Services. Guided by our core values of closeness, teamwork, diversity, and excellence, our team of 1,000 expert consultants, representing 35 different nationalities, collaborates across 10 international offices : Paris, Lyon, New York, Montreal, London, Brussels, Geneva, Lisbon, Porto and Casablanca.

We are looking for an IT Project Manager for one of our clients, an investment bank set in Montreal

Role Overview :

Th team is in charge of the information systems for Capital Markets Department covering all capital markets domains (from pre-trade to post trade through risk management and regulatory reportings).

The team covers all IT activities, ensuring applicative support to end-users, maintenance and evolution of the information system including ambitious and innovative transformation programs to accompany business growth while protecting and reinforcing current best-in class business franchises. Capital Market IT teams are distributed across the world, currently in Paris, London, Hong Kong, Singapore and New York.

The team is looking to reinforce its presence in North America, consolidating and reinforcing its workforce on Fixed Income e-trading, pricing and booking activities (Rates, Bonds, Repos) and securitization activities, as well as US-specific back office systems (payment, reconciliations).

As such, the team is opening a local Project Manager position in Montreal.

Key responsabilities :

The responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to :

• Frame, design and steer different aspects of the Teams’s implementation project :
• Put in place the proper governance & comitology
• Assist in preparation of steering committee presentations
• Share information with all stakeholders
• Liaise with different teams
• Track actions to closure
• Gather achievements, risks and delay
• Design the roadmap
• Steer budget
• People aspects :
• Follow the recruitment plan, both permanents & contractor resources
• Facilitate on-boarding of new resources (permanents or contractors) with dedicated materials and packs
• Update accordingly the top management
• Relationship with vendors :
• Represent the team in cooperation with local procurement vis-a-vis our vendors
• Organize and animate our sourcing pipe
• Infrastructure set up :
• Follow up the implementation and raise any risks, challenges, delay observed
• Put in place requirements of all tools, applications, processes for the Montreal team in a manner that is consistent with the global Teams setup
• Premises :
• Follow the correct implementation & availability of positions in accordance with the global ramp up plan

Required Qualifications and Skills :

Language : English : mandatory

French : is a plus