Location: Toronto (WFH for now)
Duration: 05/17/2021 to 12/31/2021 (potential for extension)

Business group: Manages bi weekly payroll deposits for employees in Canada, and is accountable for managing and owning the attendance from the business perspective, building requirements, and testing.

Project: Will be taking part in multiple projects such as testing a new application configured for the payroll system and upstream system projects relating to payroll.

Candidate Value Proposition:
– Work for top Canadian bank
– Great opportunity for a junior candidate to gain further experience
– Great exposure to HR technology and market leading applications/ systems (implementing global payroll system)

Typical Day in the role:
– Manage timelines for all smaller projects and primary year end project
– Ensuring all targets are being met
– Design discussions on behalf of the director
– Create executive summaries and presentations to bring updates to VPs)
– Meetings 60%, 40% desk work
– Complete analysis on changes stakeholders are looking to implement (ie. compensation project, pension and benefits, new applications)
– Waterfall and Agile methodologies will be used depending on the project (mostly Agile for the smaller projects)
– Relationship building with team and senior managers on a daily basis

Must have hard skills:
1. 1- 2 years of experience creating project plans and executive summaries
2. Proven experience putting a project plan together
3. 1-2 years of BA experience
4. Waterfall and Agile methodology knowledge

Nice to have hard skills:
1. Prior experience within an FI in a similar role
2. Someone that has worked with success factors

Soft Skills:
– 5/5 presentation skills (very important as you will be giving updates to the VPs)
– Strong organizational skills
– 5/5 comms
– Positive attitude, approachable, collaborative

Education/ years of overall experience:
– Bachelor’s degree in related field.
– Open to new grads if you have strong BA internship/ co op experience