Description
Being part of Air Canada is to become part of an iconic Canadian symbol, recently ranked the best Airline in North America. Let your career take flight by joining our diverse and vibrant team at the leading edge of passenger aviation.
The Senior Analyst, IT Project & Program Management role resides within the IT Core Tech Project and Program Management team and is responsible for providing best practice guidance, documentation, and metrics related to practices involved in managing projects within Air Canada’s IT organization.
This role will support ongoing projects within the IT Core Tech portfolio by working closely with the project managers, overseeing the processes and tools for regular project updates as well as driving data integrity and reporting.
This role reports to the Manager, IT Project & Program Management
FUNCTIONAL ACCOUTABILITIES
- Responsible for working within all stages of project management, primary role being to work closely with project managers to ensure compliance to budgeting, scheduling and project management processes.
- Provides recommendations to improve planning, implementation and tracking of projects against proposed schedule and deliverables; review end to end project governance, including measurement of objectives & metrics.
- Conducts regular compliance reviews to ensure that projects are operating in line with the project management gating framework. Compliance reviews will consider the following 4 areas:
- Project governance
- Alignment to project management gating framework
- Financial management
- Communication management
- Utilizes various review methodologies such as interviews, detailed document assessments and controls validation to determine compliance with project governance requirements.
- Reviews project governance execution to ensure critical project management artifacts have been completed such as business cases, project charters, baseline plans, change requests, status reports, milestones, RACI achievements, benefits, internal/external resource plans, vendor management plans & KPIs etc.
- Reviews project governance execution to ensure that the following reviews are in place: project status & progress reviews, RAID reviews, steering committee reviews.
- Develops compliance reports that detail non-compliances and assign prioritizations based for size, risk and impact. Work with project owners to recommend, develop and implement acceptable remediation plans.
- Ensures that stakeholder analysis has been completed and that effective communication models are in place to meet stakeholders needs.
- Escalates high risk non-compliances in an effective and timely manner.
- Drive monthly / quarterly project compliance reporting to support overall IT Services reporting framework.
- Provides input to the relevant stakeholders on Project Management skills gaps noted through compliance reviews.
Qualifications
- Relevant University degree/technical certification.
- 6-8 years of IT technology, operations and people leadership experience in a large company.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Project/Program Management principles and financial management (including Waterfall and Agile Methodology).
- Certification in Project Management by a recognized project management organization preferred.
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally, communicate succinctly and efficiently, build consensus and handle complex projects in similar environments.
- Exceptional verbal, written and presentation skills.
- Strong organizational, analytical, relationship management and communication skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and high complexity.
- High proficiency in MS Office 365 Applications (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, SharePoint, etc.).
- Must be able work with minimal supervision; self-motivated and results oriented.
Conditions of Employment:
- Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of interest, at the time any offer of employment is made and seeking any required work permits/visas or other authorizations which may be required is the sole responsibility of the candidates applying for this position.
Linguistic Requirements
Based on equal qualifications, preference will be given to bilingual candidates.
Diversity and Inclusion
Air Canada is strongly committed to Diversity and Inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding work environment which highlights employees’ unique contributions to our company’s success.
As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all to help us build a diverse workforce which reflects the diversity of our customers, and communities, in which we live and serve.
Air Canada thanks all candidates for their interest; however only those selected to continue in the process will be contacted.
