Hiring: Project Manager – Financial Services / Capital Markets

Location: Toronto, ON — 4 days/week onsite (mandatory, not negotiable)

Interview: Face-to-face interview required (L1 and/or CI)

Position Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead complex business and technology transformation initiatives across Capital Markets, Asset Management, and Wealth Management.

The successful candidate will drive strategic programs involving application rationalization, platform consolidation, business process transformation, system integration, and migration across multiple Lines of Business.

The ideal candidate will have strong Financial Services domain expertise, excellent stakeholder management skills, and a proven track record delivering enterprise-scale transformation programs.

Key Responsibilities:

Program & Project Leadership

- Lead end-to-end delivery of strategic transformation initiatives.
- Develop and maintain project plans, roadmaps, budgets, timelines, and governance frameworks.
- Manage multiple workstreams across business operations, data, technology, infrastructure, and vendors.
- Align business objectives with technology execution.

Application Rationalization & Integration

- Lead application portfolio assessments and identify opportunities for consolidation, modernization, retirement, and migration.
- Manage complex integration programs involving upstream and downstream systems.
- Partner with Enterprise Architects and technology leaders to define target-state architecture.




- Oversee migration and decommissioning activities while minimizing business disruption.

Business & Executive Stakeholder Management

- Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, Product Owners, Operations, and Technology teams.
- Facilitate workshops to gather requirements, identify gaps, and define future-state processes.
- Present program status, risks, dependencies, and financial updates to executive leadership.
- Build consensus across diverse stakeholder groups and business entities.

Governance, Risk & Compliance

- Establish program governance, steering committees, and decision-making forums.
- Manage risks, issues, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
- Ensure adherence to regulatory, audit, risk, and compliance requirements.
- Track KPIs, milestones, and benefit realization.

Change & Transformation Management

- Drive organizational change and business adoption strategies.
- Coordinate UAT, training, communications, and release activities.
- Support operating model transformation and business process optimization.

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Technology, or related discipline.
- 10+ years of Project/Program Management experience within Financial Services.




- Strong experience in Capital Markets, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Investment Banking, or Custody Services.
- Proven experience leading enterprise-scale application modernization, integration, rationalization, or transformation programs.
- Experience with Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid delivery methodologies.
- Robust knowledge of SDLC, system integration, data migration, and transformation programs.
- Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Domain Expertise:

Capital Markets

- Front, Middle & Back Office Operations
- Trade Lifecycle Management
- Asset Servicing
- Collateral Management
- Market & Reference Data
- Risk & Regulatory Reporting
- Prime Brokerage
- Securities Financing

Asset & Wealth Management

- Portfolio Management
- Investment Operations
- Client Onboarding
- Fund Accounting
- Performance Measurement
- Wealth Advisory Platforms
- Custody & Trust Services

Preferred Certifications:

- PMP / PgMP
- PRINCE2
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
- SAFe Agilist
- Lean Six Sigma

Key Skills:

Project/Program Management | Business Transformation | Application Rationalization | Enterprise Integration | Target Operating Model | Capital Markets | Stakeholder Management | Vendor Management | Executive Communication | Risk & Issue Management | Financial Planning & Governance | Change Management

? Interested candidates: Please send your updated resume to [email protected] / [email protected]

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📌 Project Manager – Financial Services / Capital Markets (Ontario)
🏢 Aptino
📍 Ontario