Assistant Vice President, Delivery Manager

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Role Summary:

The Delivery Manager is accountable for the delivery of technology and business change projects within a complex banking environment. The role leads projects from initiation through implementation and transition to operations, ensuring delivery against approved scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, and governance expectations. The Delivery Manager coordinates cross-functional teams, drives issue resolution and decision-making, and maintains clear, accurate, and decision-ready project documentation. The role also performs targeted business analysis activities to strengthen requirements, traceability, process understanding, and the overall quality of project deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

Project Delivery and Execution

- ·    Lead the end-to-end delivery of assigned projects and initiatives from initiation, planning, and requirements through design, build, testing, implementation, and transition to operations.
- ·    Develop and maintain integrated delivery plans covering scope, milestones, dependencies, resources, budget, risks, issues, decisions, and implementation readiness.
- ·    Drive execution across business, technology, operations, risk, compliance, finance, vendors, and other project stakeholders.
- ·    Monitor progress against delivery commitments and proactively address schedule, scope, resource, budget, and quality variances.
- ·    Facilitate project governance, working sessions, status reviews, and decision forums, with clear outcomes, actions, owners, and due dates.
- ·    Manage project risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, and change requests, ensuring timely escalation and resolution.
- ·    Coordinate solution delivery, testing, implementation, cutover, stabilization, and handover activities.
- ·    Ensure projects meet applicable delivery methodology, architecture, security, data, risk, compliance, audit, and governance requirements.
- ·    Manage third-party and vendor delivery, where applicable, against agreed scope, milestones, dependencies, and quality expectations.
- ·    Provide concise, accurate, and timely project reporting for sponsors, governance committees, and senior leadership.
- ·    Support benefits realization, adoption, operational readiness, and post-implementation review activities.

Business Analysis and Documentation Quality

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- ·    Work with business and technology stakeholders to elicit, clarify, document, validate, and prioritize business, functional, non-functional, data, reporting, control, and operational requirements.
- ·    Ensure requirements are complete, accurate, testable, traceable, and aligned to approved project scope and intended business outcomes.
- ·    Review and challenge project documents for accuracy, consistency, completeness, clarity, and fitness for purpose before circulation or approval.
- ·    Establish and maintain quality expectations, review checkpoints, version control, document ownership, and approval evidence for key project artifacts.
- ·    Ensure appropriate traceability from business objectives and requirements through solution design, testing, implementation, and acceptance.
- ·    Support current-state and future-state analysis, process mapping, gap assessment, impact analysis, and definition of business and operational controls.
- ·    Validate that business requirements documents, process flows, functional specifications, test scenarios, implementation plans, status reports, and governance materials are internally consistent and decision-ready.
- ·    Partner with quality assurance and business teams to confirm test coverage, defect resolution, UAT readiness, and acceptance evidence.
- ·    Identify documentation gaps or quality risks early and coordinate corrective action with the responsible owners.

Stakeholder and Team Leadership

- ·    Build effective working relationships across business and technology teams and maintain alignment among sponsors, delivery teams, control functions, and vendors.
- ·    Communicate delivery priorities, trade-offs, risks, dependencies, and decisions clearly to both working teams and executive stakeholders.
- ·    Provide direction and delivery discipline to project managers, business analysts, subject matter experts, technical leads, testers, and vendor resources, as applicable.
- ·    Promote accountability, collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement across project teams.

Required Qualifications

- ·    Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Engineering, Finance, Analytics, or a related field.
- ·    6-9 years of experience in project delivery, technology delivery, transformation, or business change within a complex organization.
- ·    Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional projects through the full delivery lifecycle.
- ·    Experience with project governance, integrated planning, RAID management, financial tracking, testing, implementation, and executive reporting.
- ·    Hands-on experience with business analysis, requirements management, process analysis, and quality review of project documentation.
- ·    Experience in banking, financial services, or another highly regulated environment is preferred.
- ·    Project management or agile certification is an asset.

4. Technical and Delivery Skills

- ·    Project planning, scheduling, dependency management, and delivery forecasting
- ·    Scope, budget, resource, risk, issue, decision, and change management
- ·    Project governance and executive status reporting
- ·    Requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, validation, and traceability
- ·    Business process mapping, gap analysis, and impact assessment
- ·    Quality assurance, testing lifecycle, UAT, implementation, and operational readiness
- ·    Document management, version control, review, and approval practices
- ·    Working knowledge of agile, waterfall, and hybrid delivery approaches
- ·    Familiarity with project and collaboration tools such as Jira, ServiceNow, Microsoft Project, SharePoint, Teams, Power BI, or equivalent platforms
- ·    Awareness of data governance, information security, audit, risk, and regulatory control requirements

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Business and Leadership Skills

- ·    Strong ownership and results orientation, with the ability to drive delivery through ambiguity and competing priorities
- ·    Ability to manage multiple workstreams and maintain focus on critical milestones and outcomes
- ·    Strong analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, negotiation, and decision-support skills
- ·    Clear and concise written and verbal communication for working-level and executive audiences
- ·    Attention to detail and a strong commitment to accuracy, completeness, and document quality
- ·    Ability to challenge constructively, resolve conflict, and influence without direct authority
- ·    Ability to balance delivery speed with governance, quality, risk, and control expectations

Performance Measures

- ·    Delivery of projects against approved scope, schedule, budget, quality, and expected outcomes
- ·    Timely identification, escalation, and resolution of delivery risks, issues, and dependencies
- ·    Quality, accuracy, completeness, and timeliness of project documentation and governance materials
- ·    Requirements traceability and effectiveness of change control
- ·    Testing, implementation, operational readiness, and transition outcomes
- ·    Stakeholder confidence, engagement, and decision-making effectiveness
- ·    Adoption, benefits realization, and sustainability of implemented solutions
- ·    Compliance with project governance, risk, audit, and regulatory requirements

Education:

•Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a closely-related discipline, or  equivalent in professional experience

The typical base pay range for this role is depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.

Our hybrid work schedule is four days on-site and work remotely one day per week.

The job description and related application pertains to an opportunity with either MUFG Bank, Ltd., Canada Branch (“MUFG Bank Canada”) or MUFG Securities (Canada), Ltd. (“MUFG Securities Canada”). The job description relates to the general nature, scope, quantity and quality of work contemplated for the position. Other duties and responsibilities not specifically described may be assigned from time to time, consistent with knowledge, skills and abilities of the incumbent. The receipt of an application by either MUFG Bank Canada or MUFG Securities Canada, as applicable, does not imply or guarantee employment.

Each of MUFG Bank Canada and MUFG Securities Canada is an equal opportunity employer.

• As a federally regulated entity, MUFG Bank Canada is required to comply with applicable laws which prohibit discrimination based on protected grounds and which require accommodation to individuals in accordance with the requirements outlined in the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Canada Labour Code. Where MUFG Bank Canada obtains information relating to protected grounds under the Canadian Human Rights Act as part of the application process, it does so to monitor and otherwise evaluate its own compliance with such legislation and associated regulatory requirements; MUFG Bank Canada does not use such information for decision making purposes relating to the position contemplated in this application.

• As a provincially regulated entity, MUFG Securities Canada is required to comply with applicable laws which prohibit discrimination based on protected grounds and which require accommodation to individuals in accordance with the requirements outlined in the Human Rights Code (Ontario) and the Employment Standards Act (Ontario). Where MUFG Securities Canada obtains information relating to protected grounds under the Human Rights Code (Ontario) as part of the application process, it does so to monitor and otherwise evaluate its own compliance with such legislation and associated regulatory requirements; MUFG Securities Canada does not use such information for decision making purposes relating to the position contemplated in this application.