Project Control Officer
The Project Control Officer supports CGI Directors and their teams by tracking and producing reports on key sector and project initiatives. This includes status reports, presentations, asset storage, work plans, financials, change requests, time logging, deliverables, innovations, external software and licenses, resource onboarding and offboarding, and risk and issue management.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
• Support sector leadership with deliverables such as status reports, work plans, meeting notes, schedules, resource plans, and risk and issue tracking documents.
• Track decisions regarding change requests, identified risks, and outstanding items.
• Attend sector and engagement meetings, ensuring meeting notes and action plans are clearly documented and communicated.
• Support the project change management process; review submitted changes, initiate and monitor approval workflows, and work with stakeholders for timely approvals.
• Report on internal sector, engagement, and project resources (people, capital, expenses).
• Assist in the design, development, documentation, and implementation of new and ad hoc reports, templates, and processes as required.
• Prepare presentation materials (reports, charts, graphs) for senior management and client-facing meetings.
• Take initiative with ongoing process improvements and enhancements.
• Track training requests, related expenses, approvals and related outcomes.
• Track the external software license inventory, manage timely software renewals, track invoices, and handle required approvals.
• Manage resource onboarding, offboarding, annual compliances, track resource assignments, and keep relevant systems updated.
• Support project financials, actuals vs. forecast metrics, and actual time logging reporting.
• Work closely with Directors to track deliverables and risks/issues of engagements.
• Assist with special projects as required.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
• 5+ years of experience in financial analysis, business analysis and/or project coordination or management
• Strong knowledge of project management practices.
• Understanding of techniques for planning, monitoring, and controlling programs/projects.
• Proficiency with tools such as MS Office, MS Project, MS Excel and CRM.
• Understanding of cost metric concepts and tools (e.g., EMT, revenue cost margins, etc.).
Asset Qualifications
• Prior experience as a project control officer.
• CAPM certification is an asset.
• PMP certification is an asset, familiar with PMBOK.
• Understanding of IT concepts, systems, and methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, DevOps).
• Familiarity with software development life cycles (SDLC).
• Proficiency in project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, SharePoint).