Sr. Project Associate

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 JOB PURPOSE 

The Sr Project Associate is responsible for coordinating and preparing project schedules, assigning work to the project team, monitoring progress, responding to changing priorities and adjusting work schedules. The role applies comprehensive knowledge and skills to assist in the development and delivery of key project planning initiatives such as the project charter, project scope, and project schedule. The Sr Project Associate exercises independent judgement within defined procedures, tracking progress and making recommendations on response plans for risks, resolution plans for issues and results on action items. Working with limited direction, the Sr Project Associate proactively identifies any deviations to the project schedule and recommends corrective action to the project manager to mitigate risk.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• This position will have responsibility for supporting the operations of various program initiatives. 

• Work with stakeholders to schedule and facilitate meetings.

• Create status reports, meeting minutes, and presentations.

• Maintain up-to-date risks, actions, issues, and decisions logs.

• Track follow-ups, ensuring that the teams adhere to the project management approach and expectations. 

• Assist the workstreams with creating business requirement documents, process maps, or other project artifacts and analyzing project needs. 

• Work collaboratively with the bank project managers and stakeholders to track progress on workplans and milestones.

• Support maintenance and tracking of program budget(s)

• The position will often support more than one project at a time.

CROSS-FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS (Legal, Compliance, External, etc.):

• Be the liaison between business units, technology teams, and support teams.

COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS/RESPONSIBILITIES (if applicable)

• As an employee of CIBC, the incumbent must comply with all applicable CIBC and Line of Business policies, standards, guidelines and controls.  

CONDUCT & CULTURE RISK

Our CIBC risk culture is based on employees striving to exceed the expectations of ourselves and our leadership’s identification and mitigation of risks in their daily responsibilities, not just in quarterly or annual monitoring/assessments.  We all are accountable for managing risk.

As an employee of CIBC the incumbent must conduct themselves (and foster an environment for others) in a manner consistent with our strong risk culture. This includes:

• Following all aspects of the CIBC Code of Conduct, as well as all applicable CIBC polic