Desjardins Group

Project control officer

Desjardins Group$80K — $100K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a related field
  • Minimum of eight years of relevant experience
  • Knowledge of French required
  • Intermediate English proficiency needed for interactions
  • Other combinations of qualifications may be considered

Responsibilities

  • Monitor project scopes, budgets, and timelines to generate reports
  • Anticipate and analyze trends, proposing solutions to performance issues
  • Support the team with risk, issue, and document management
  • Ensure adherence to project management best practices
  • Assist in updating timelines by tracking milestones and key dates
  • Monitor plan execution and make resource capacity recommendations

Benefits

  • 4 weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year
  • Defined benefit pension plan for stable retirement income
  • Group insurance including telemedicine services
  • Reimbursement for health and wellness expenses and telework equipment
Full Job Description
As a project control officer, you help plan and monitor projects to meet objectives on time and on budget. You work alongside the project/agile leader and serve as a point person for the team to help them meet their performance objectives. You act as an expert advisor for project management tools, planning and performance monitoring. You monitor the delivery of projects, programs and groups of projects to ensure they are efficient. To this effect, you clarify the scope, plan, prioritize and coordinate tasks to ensure objectives and commitments are met. You anticipate issues and trends, come up with solutions and ensure they are implemented. You analyze and diagnose issues and then recommend solutions for highly innovative strategic projects and programs involving multiple sectors. Your initiatives require extensive, in-depth knowledge of your field of expertise. You are the point person for the implementation of Project Delivery Office processes and requirements. You are responsible for projects and programs with a high degree of operational and conceptual complexity. These require analytical skills, comprehensive, in-depth knowledge of your line of business and the organization and the ability to manage ambiguity. Coordination is critical. You interact with a very large number of stakeholders working in a wide range of fields. Interpersonal savvy and the ability to balance the interests of multiple parties are therefore essential. You lead, influence and serve as an expert to teams, senior management and decision-making bodies. More specifically, you will be required to:
  • Monitor project scopes, budgets and timelines in order to produce reports
  • Anticipate, identify and analyze trends and discrepancies and suggest solutions to help the team meet their performance indicators
  • Assist the team with risk, issue and document management
  • Ensure project management best practices are followed
  • Help the team update the timeline by keeping track of milestones and key dates for squads and contributors
  • Monitor and analyze the plan, make resource capacity recommendations and update the project plan.


What we offer*
  • Competitive salary and annual bonus
  • 4 weeks of flexible vacation starting in the first year
  • Defined benefit pension plan that provides predictable, stable income throughout retirement
  • Group insurance including telemedicine
  • Reimbursement of health and wellness expenses and telework equipment

* Benefits apply based on eligibility criteria.

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What you bring to the table
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field
  • A minimum of eight years of relevant experience
  • Please note that other combinations of qualifications and relevant experience may be considered
  • Knowledge of French is required
  • Intermediate knowledge of English due to the nature of the duties or work tools or because the position involves interactions with English-speaking partners, members and/or clients
Action oriented, Customer Focus, Differences, Interpersonal Savvy, Nimble learning, Plans and aligns

Trade Union (If applicable)

Job Family
Project management (FG)

Unposting Date
2026-07-20

About Desjardins Group

Desjardins Group is a Canadian cooperative financial group with headquarters in Montreal, Quebec. It was founded in 1900 and has since grown to become the largest cooperative financial group in Canada, with over 7 million members and clients. The group offers a range of financial services including banking, insurance, wealth management, and investment services. Desjardins Group operates primarily in Quebec and Ontario, but also has a presence in other Canadian provinces as well as in the United States and Europe. The group is committed to social responsibility and sustainability, and has implemented various initiatives to promote these values.
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