Senior Project Manager Specialized in Security

Term December 7, 2026 to December 31, 2028

Assigned Recruiter(s) Anita Sajja,Ashwini Dhobale

Job Opening ID 11906

City Montreal

Country Canada

Number of Positions 1

Work Experience 7-10 Years

Job Description
Mandate Overview:

The client is adding a senior PM to a rapid-growing financialcrime prevention program, from about $20M today to $35M to $42M next year,whose projects have been in the red for several months. The domain covers moneylaundering, tax evasion, suspicious transactions and exchanges with FINTRAC,not fraud. The director requires a background where security was the verysubject of the projects: the sponsor, who knows the domain in depth, meets thecandidate in the second round and rules out profiles without this experience.The role requires understanding each element of the domain, for example why areport sent to FINTRAC is non-compliant, rather than coordinating from adistance. The person must also take back control of a tense executive meetingand answer sharp questions on the spot.

Candidate sought: a senior project manager who hasdelivered projects where security was the main domain, ideally in financialcrime prevention or identity and access management, and who has already takenover a project in the red facing executive sponsors. Their resume shows anunderstanding of the substance of the files they led (controls, compliance,regulation), along with a project plan, a budget and reporting under theirresponsibility.





Requirements
Required:

Security project management, in large-scale contexts, wheresecurity is the main subject of the project

Experience in a risk management context or in a financialinstitution

Experience in a software integration and platform changeproject

PMP, MGP or ACP certification

Leadership competencies: complex contexts, communicationwith executives and control of the agenda in executive committees, politicalskills in project recovery, resilience on projects in the red, curiosity andfunctional understanding of the domain, collaborative culture, planning andcoordination, leadership, managing stakeholders with diverging objectives

French and English bilingualism

Asset:

Master's degree or graduate diploma in project management

Profiles to Exclude:

IT project management profile with no security projectdescribed in the resume.

Profile whose security projects are limited to securityrequirements within an application, consumer-facing or ERP project.

Security projects described only in management terms(schedule, budget), with no element of the domain itself (controls, compliance,identities, regulation).

Security specialist profile (analyst, architect, advisor)with no demonstrated responsibility for a project plan, a budget and aschedule.

Project lead or coordinator profile with no demonstratedreporting to a sponsor or a steering committee.

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