xScale Finance Senior Project Manager- Gestionnaire de projet principal ou gestionnaire de projet principale, Financement de projets xScale
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Job Summary
The Senior Project Manager leads the xScale Finance PMO, establishing best practices, governance frameworks, and standards for project delivery. This role is accountable for the overall project portfolio, resource planning, and executive-level stakeholder management. In addition to these leadership responsibilities, the Senior Project Manager directly manages and executes high-impact finance initiatives across joint ventures, mergers & acquisitions, and capital market projects, ensuring successful delivery from initiation through completion.
Responsibilities
Leadership & PMO
- Provide leadership and ensure best practices, methodologies, and governance are consistently applied within the xScale Finance PMO.
- Oversee the entire project portfolio, ensuring strategic alignment, prioritization, and resource optimization
- Drive resource planning and allocation for the project portfolio, proactively addressing constraints and capacity issues
- Support project managers in ensuring consistency and excellence in project delivery and standards
- Ensure frameworks for project tracking, reporting, and risk management applied consistently across all projects
- Manage relationships and communications with senior leaders' stakeholders, providing regular updates and insights
Direct Project Execution
- Manage end-to-end delivery of strategic xScale JV finance projects, ensuring structured planning, disciplined execution, and timely completion of milestones
- Coordinate project activities for joint ventures, refinancing, and capital markets transactions, working closely with treasury and capital markets teams
- Maintain project governance and tracking mechanisms, ensuring decisions, deliverables, and dependencies are documented and monitored
- Lead due diligence activities across financial, tax, legal, and operational workstreams
- Develop and maintain project plans, budgets, timelines, and risk registers
- Communicate project objectives, progress, risks, and outcomes to stakeholders, including executive-level reporting
- Apply advanced project management methodologies and tools (e.g., PMP, PMI, PRINCE2)
- Plan and manage cutover activities to ensure seamless transitions and readiness for transaction close
Qualifications
- 8+ years of project management experience, with significant exposure to leading PMOs or project portfolios in corporate development, joint ventures/M&A or capital markets
- Demonstrated experience in establishing project management best practices and governance
- Proven track record of executive stakeholder management and communication
- CPA qualification or equivalent professional accounting designation is highly preferred
- Experience collaborating with external advisors, including investment banks, legal counsel, tax advisors, and consultants
- Advanced proficiency with planning and portfolio management tools (e.g., Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Jira)
- Project Management certification required
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Résumé du poste
Le gestionnaire de projet principal ou la gestionnaire de projet principale sera à la tête du bureau de projets pour le financement des projets xScale, où il ou elle instaurera des pratiques exemplaires, des cadres de gouvernance et des normes d'exécution de projets. La personne titulaire de ce poste sera responsable de tout le portefeuille de projets, de la planification de ressources et de la gestion des relations avec les cadres partenaires. Outre ces responsabilités de leadership, la personne gérera et réalisera, du lancement jusqu'à la finalisation, des initiatives financières à grand impact dans le cadre de coentreprises, de regroupement d'entreprises, et de projets relevant du marché financier.
Responsabilités
Leadership et bureau de projets
- Faire preuve de leadership et faire en sorte que le bureau de projets responsable du financement des projets xScale utilise en tout temps les meilleurs cadres de gouvernance, pratiques et méthodologies
- Superviser l'ensemble du portefeuille de projets, s'assurer de la cohérence stratégique, d'une priorisation adéquate et de l'optimisation des ressources
- Mener la planification et l'allocation des ressources pour le portefeuille de projets, aborder tout problème ou contrainte de capacités de manière proactive
- Appuyer les gestionnaires de projet dans leurs efforts pour assurer la cohérence et l'excellence quant aux standards et à l'exécution des projets
- Veiller à l'utilisation rigoureuse de cadres pour la déclaration d'information, la gestion des risques et le suivi, relatifs aux projets
- Gérer les relations et les communications avec les cadres partenaires par le biais de mises à jour et de renseignements réguliers
Exécution de projets
- Gérer l'exécution complète des projets financiers xScale JV stratégiques et assurer une planification structurée, une exécution disciplinée et la réalisation des étapes charnières dans les délais impartis
- Coordonner les activités de projets pour les coentreprises, le refinancement et les transactions sur le marché financier, en étroite collaboration avec les équipes responsables de la trésorerie et des marchés financiers
- Maintenir des mécanismes de gouvernance et de suivi des projets afin que les décisions, les livrables et les interdépendances soient documentés et surveillés
- Mener les vérifications d'usage dans les axes de travail financier, fiscal, juridique et opérationnel
- Développer et maintenir des plans, budgets, échéanciers et registres des risques pour chaque projet
- Communiquer les objectifs, le progrès, les risques et les résultats des projets aux parties prenantes, y compris les cadres supérieurs
- Utiliser des méthodes et outils avancés de gestion de projets (p. ex. PMP, PMI, PRINCE2)
- Planifier et gérer les activités de transition pour assurer des transitions harmonieuses et une préparation adéquate à la clôture des transactions
Qualifications
- Au moins huit (8) ans d'expérience en gestion de projets, avec une exposition importante à des bureaux ou portefeuilles de projets d'envergure relatifs au développement d'affaires, aux coentreprises/regroupements d'entreprises, et aux marchés financiers
- Expérience de la mise en place de pratiques exemplaires et de cadres de gouvernance en gestion de projets
- Solide expérience de la gestion de relations et de la communication avec des cadres partenaires
- Titre CPA ou titre professionnel comptable équivalent, de préférence
- Expérience à collaborer avec des conseillers externes, y compris des banques d'investissement, des avocats, des conseillers fiscaux et des consultants
- Connaissances avancées des outils de planification et de gestion de portefeuilles (p. ex. Smartsheet, Microsoft Project, Jira)
- Certification en gestion de projet
The targeted pay range for this position in the following location is / locations are:
Canada - Remote Location - CA : 139,000 - 209,000 CAD / Annual
Our pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and location.The pay range shown is based on our compensation structure in place at the time of posting and may be updated periodically based on business needs. Individual pay is based on additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training.
The targeted pay range listed reflects the base pay only and does not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Employees are eligible for bonus, and equity may be offered depending on the position.
Equinix Benefits
As an employee, you become important to Equinix's success. We ensure all your benefits are in line with our core values: competitive, inclusive, sustainable, connected and efficient. We keep them competitive within the current marketplace to ensure we're providing you with the best package possible. So, wherever you are in your career and life, you'll be able to enhance your experience and bring your whole self to work.
Employee Assistance Program: An Employee Assistance program is available to all employees.
Canada Core Benefits: - Insurance: You may enroll in healthcare coverage that is designed to complement the provincial healthcare system, along with life, disability and optional benefit plans that are designed for you and your eligible family members. - Retirement: You may also enroll in Equinix-sponsored retirement or savings plans: Defined Contribution Pension Plan (DCPP), Group Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) and Tax-Free Savings Plan (TSFA). - Vacation and Paid Holidays: Equinix offers both vacation and personal time, along with various paid holidays for you to rest and recharge. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits. Benefits are subject to specific plan or program terms, and to change at Equinix discretion.
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