Overview
Project Control Analyst Jobs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at Kelly Services (Canada), Ltd.
Title: Project Control Analyst
Company: Kelly Services (Canada), Ltd.
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Job Title: Project Control / PMO Analyst (Contract)
Location: Toronto
Pay Rate: $60 per hour
Contract Duration: 12 months
- Extension possible: Yes
- Conversion possible: Yes
Overview
We are seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented Project Control / PMO Analyst to support a regulatory-focused initiative within a large financial institution. This role provides governance, reporting, financial tracking, and project controls across multiple workstreams while working closely with internal stakeholders.
The successful candidate will spend approximately 25% of their time in meetings, will work within a small, collaborative team, and will not have access to customer data.
Scope of Project
- Regulatory program within a large Financial Institution
- Strong emphasis on governance, controls, reporting accuracy, and audit readiness
Team & Culture
- Team size: 6 people
- Collaborative, structured PMO environment
- Clear processes with hands-on ownership
- Training period: 30 days
Key Responsibilities
Project Governance & Controls
- Own and maintain the RAID log, including ingestion, validation, and maintenance of Risks, Actions, Issues, and Decisions
- Ensure RAID items remain current, coherent, and properly escalated
- Maintain project change control, including tracking Project Change Requests (PCRs) and related actions
Reporting & Executive Support
- Prepare and consolidate weekly status reports, executive steering committee (ESC) materials, and ad-hoc reporting
- Ensure reporting aligns with regulatory and governance standards
Interdependency & Schedule Management
- Track and manage interdependencies across project workstreams and external initiatives
- Monitor schedules, milestones, and deliverables using MS Project
- Highlight and escalate risks, delays, or slippages
Financial Management
- Consolidate monthly cost forecasts
- Track actuals and perform variance analysis
- Support project financial governance and transparency
Artifact & Compliance Management
- Organize, index, and track required project artifacts
- Log exceptions and exemptions
- Support audits, compliance reviews, and delivery assurance activities
Stakeholder Interaction
- Interaction with internal stakeholders only (Project Managers, PMO, Finance, Governance teams)
- Approximately 25% of time spent in meetings
- No access to customer data
MUST-HAVE Hard Skills
- Advanced Excel Pivot tables
- Data manipulation
- Charts and graphs
- Formulas
- MS Project (schedule management and reporting)
- Project financial management (budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis)
- RAID log management
NICE-TO-HAVE
- PMP certification
- Experience with Clarity
- Experience with Jira and/or Confluence
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 7+ years of overall experience
- Ideal background: Large Financial Institution (FI) experience
