Project Manager - HR
With over 30 years of recognized expertise, COFOMO is now a leading Canadian consulting firm specializing in digital and artificial intelligence. Supported by more than 3,000 experts, 10 Centers of Excellence, and 4 offices across the country, we are uniquely positioned to successfully guide our clients through their transformations. Both strategic and tactical, we help organizations across a wide range of industries thrive in today’s rapidly evolving world.
Our promise
Help our clients succeed and maximize the impact of their transformation initiatives, turning them into powerful drivers of growth and innovation.
Job description
- Lead projects through the initiation, development, construction, transition, production and hypercare phases;
- Develop and maintain an integrated project plan covering deliverables, milestones, resources, environments, testing, failover, deployment, and stabilization;
- Coordinate the implementation of the HR platform as well as payroll integrations, third-party solutions and middleware components;
- Ensure delivery of work on time, on budget, on approved scope, quality requirements and operational readiness;
- Monitor progress, identify discrepancies, and implement turnaround plans when delivery is at risk;
- Mobilize internal and external resources to ensure the coordination of the different components of the project;
- Define objectives, scope, deliverables, assumptions, exclusions, and acceptance criteria with stakeholders;
- Establish and maintain project schedule, critical path, dependencies, and milestones;
- Track budget, forecasts, commitments, supplier efforts and actual costs, and communicate variances and emerging risks;
- Plan resource needs and coordinate their availability with the various teams involved;
- Apply a rigorous change management process with respect to scope, schedule, cost or solution approach;
- Manage stakeholder relationships to ensure alignment of business and technology needs;
- Implement governance, decision-making mechanisms, escalation processes and follow-up activities;
- Prepare progress reports outlining the status of work, milestones, budget, risks, issues and required decisions;
- Foster collaboration between business teams, technology teams, and vendors;
- Collaborate with analysts to confirm needs, process impacts, configuration requirements and acceptance criteria;
- Work with architecture consultants to ensure alignment of solution, integrations, environments, security, and data;
- Coordinate activities related to configuration, data conversion, reporting, interfaces, testing, training and release;
- Support reviews and approvals at different stages of the project;
- Maintain the RAID registry by tracking risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, mitigations, and escalations;
- Proactively identify risks related to delivery, resources, suppliers, data, integrations, security, adoption, and operations;
- Coordinate quality assurance activities, deliverable reviews and readiness assessments;
- Validate that test plans adequately cover configurations, integrations, payroll impacts, reporting, data conversions, security roles, and end-to-end business processes;
- Organize the go-live, transition to support and closure activities of hypercare;
- Document decisions, actions, lessons learned, and all project documentation.
The profile we are looking for is as follows:
- Have approximately five (5)to eight (8) years of project management experience, including full responsibility for project delivery;
- Hands-on experience implementing HR solutions such as Oracle HCM, Workday, SAP SuccessFactors or any comparable platform;
- Have experience coordinating payroll integrations, third-party applications, interfaces, and middleware solutions;
- Demonstrate the ability to manage scope, schedule, budget, resources, vendors, stakeholders, and RAID elements in complex environments;
- Collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams composed of business analysts, functional analysts, technical teams and architectural consultants;
- Proficiency with management and collaboration tools such as Microsoft 365, Jira, and Smartsheet.
Why choose a career at COFOMO?*
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Wellness program
- 24/7 telemedicine access
- Support for legal, accounting, and mental health needs
- Focus on growth, development, and skills enhancement
- Personalized career plan and tailored guidance
- Hybrid work environment
- Active social club and year-round events
* Only applicable to permanent COFOMO employees.
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