Senior Project Manager - Compliance, Bank Act

Location: Toronto, ON

Onsite Flexibility: Hybrid

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 6 months
• Pay Rate: C$90.00–C$100.00 / Hour (CAD)

Our client, a leading Canadian financial institution, is seeking a Senior Technical Project Manager to lead a regulatory technology initiative supporting Bank Act compliance requirements. This is a hands-on technology delivery role requiring strong experience managing projects through the full SDLC/PDLC, with accountability across application development, testing, implementation, governance, and project financials. A key requirement is strong project accounting and financial management. The successful candidate must be able to confidently manage and explain budgets, forecasts, actuals, accruals, vendor spend, and financial variances.

Project Delivery

• Lead end-to-end delivery of a complex regulatory compliance technology project.
• Translate regulatory and business requirements into executable technology plans.
• Manage delivery across development, architecture, data, QA, infrastructure, security, business, Compliance, and Risk teams.
• Maintain project plans, milestones, dependencies, RAID logs, and executive reporting.
• Drive issue resolution, risk mitigation, and escalation across internal teams and vendors.
• Manage testing, release readiness, implementation, and post-production activities.
• Ensure appropriate traceability between regulatory requirements, technology changes, and testing outcomes.
• Maintain strong governance and documentation to support compliance and audit requirements.

Project Financial Management

• Own project budgets, forecasts, actuals, and financial reporting.
• Track contractor, vendor, and internal resource costs.
• Manage accruals, invoices, purchase orders, and financial commitments.
• Perform budget-to-actual and forecast variance analysis.
• Identify financial risks, overruns, or funding gaps early.
• Provide clear financial updates to senior stakeholders.

• 7 years of experience managing complex technology projects, ideally within banking or financial services.
• Strong experience leading SDLC / software development projects.
• Previous experience delivering regulatory, compliance, risk, or mandatory-change initiatives.
• Strong project financial management experience, including budgets, forecasts, actuals, accruals, and vendor spend.
• Experience working across Technology, Business, Compliance, Risk, and Operations teams.
• Strong governance, risk, dependency, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience managing third-party vendors and complex enterprise delivery environments.
• Strong communication skills with both executive and technical stakeholders.

• Previous experience within a major Canadian bank or regulated financial institution.
• Familiarity with the Bank Act and Canadian financial-services regulation.
• Experience delivering regulatory remediation or compliance-driven technology initiatives.
• PMP or related project-management certification.

GTT is an NMSDC-certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. GTT is a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, an Alaska-based company and one of the largest Alaska Native-owned corporations. An Inc. 5000 honoree and one of SIA's Best Staffing Firms to Work For, GTT connects professionals with Fortune 500 organizations across IT, engineering, construction, utilities, life sciences, financial services, and healthcare throughout the U.S. and Canada. We're committed to diverse, inclusive workplaces and to placing people in roles where they can do their best work.

Job Number: 26-16857

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