Program Manager

Job Title: Program Manager – Treasury | Intra-Day Liquidity Program
Duration: 6 Months (extension likely)
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid - 2 days in office)
 
Role Overview
The Program Manager will lead the end-to-end delivery of a large, complex Treasury transformation program focused on Intra-Day Liquidity (IDL) monitoring and management. The role is accountable for orchestrating multiple workstreams spanning data integration, technology delivery, third-party vendor implementation, regulatory enablement, and business process transformation.

This position partners closely with Corporate Treasury, Risk, Technology, Operations, and external vendors to deliver a scalable, governed intraday liquidity capability that provides near-real-time visibility into cash, collateral, and payment flows across entities, currencies, and payment systems.

Key Responsibilities:
Program Leadership & Delivery
· Own and manage the overall program plan, governing multiple interdependent workstreams across business, technology, data, and vendor delivery.
· Drive disciplined execution aligned to enterprise program delivery frameworks, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, and quality objectives are met.
· Establish and run program governance, including SteerCo, executive updates, dependency management, and integrated risk and issue tracking.
· Provide clear line-of-sight from regulatory and business outcomes to delivery milestones and benefits realization
Intra-Day Liquidity Domain Delivery
· Lead delivery of capabilities supporting real-time or near-real-time liquidity visibility, including:
o Cash and nostro positions
o Central bank and FMI balances
o Payment flows and intraday funding usage
o Collateral availability and constraints
· Coordinate the build and rollout of dashboards, alerts, limits, EWIs, and intraday monitoring tools used by Treasury and Risk teams.

Data Integration & Architecture Oversight
· Lead cross-functional efforts to source, integrate, and reconcile data from dozens of internal and external systems, including payments, core banking, trading platforms, FMIs, custodians, and central banks.
· Partner with Technology and Data teams to oversee ETL pipelines, SLAs, latency tracking, data quality controls, and exception management.
· Ensure data lineage, ownership, and controls are clearly defined to support auditability and regulatory expectations.

Third-Party Vendor Management
· Act as the primary program interface to the selected third-party IDL vendor, overseeing:
o Onboarding, due diligence, cyber/security reviews, and contracting milestones
o Solution configuration, integration, and deployment
o Delivery governance, issue escalation, and dependency alignment
· Ensure vendor deliverables align with internal architecture standards and Treasury operating model requirements.
Regulatory & Risk Enablement
· Partner with Treasury Risk and second-line teams to ensure delivered capabilities support regulatory expectations for intraday liquidity risk management.
· Translate regulatory requirements into prioritized delivery scope, controls, and evidencing mechanisms.
· Support internal and external examinations by ensuring documentation, controls, and reporting are complete and production-ready.

Operating Model & BAU Transition
· Lead the transition from program delivery to business-as-usual (BAU), including:
o Operating procedures and runbooks
o Roles and ownership models across Treasury, Risk, Technology, and Operations
o Training, change management, and adoption readiness
· Ensure sustainability of the intraday liquidity capability beyond the initial regulatory delivery.

Required Qualifications
· 10+ years of experience in program or senior project management within financial services.
· Proven ability to manage complex data and technology integrations across numerous source systems across multiple teams and lines of business.
· Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage and influence senior executives.
· Demonstrated experience leading complex, multiple workstream initiatives that span an Enterprise.

Preferred Qualifications
· Experience delivering programs under strict timeline constraints and heightened regulatory or audit oversight.
· PMP, PgMP, SAFe, or equivalent certification preferred.
· Nice to have understanding of Treasury, liquidity management, payments, or financial market infrastructure concepts.

Success Factors
· Ability to simplify complex concepts and present executive-level insights clearly.
· Strong bias toward structured delivery, transparency, and accountability.
· Comfort operating in ambiguity while driving decisions to closure.
· Trusted partner to Treasury, Risk, and Technology leadership 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 90.00/hr.