McCarthy Tétrault

Project Manager

• Leading and managing project teams by overseeing planning, execution, resource allocation, risk and change management, stakeholder communication, and documentation to ensure successful project delivery in alignment with McCarthy Tétrault’s project management standards and objectives.
• Building and leading the project team; providing direction as required to meet the project objectives and commitments.
• Creating and executing project work plans and revising as appropriate through MT PMO change control procedures.
• Gathering business and technical requirements for proposed projects and establishing appropriate project design through a full understanding of business requirements.
• Managing changing priorities to complete project delivery within defined constraints.
• Identifying resources needed and assigning individual responsibilities; supporting and utilization of McCarthy Tetrault project resource management processes and tools.
• Managing day-to-day operational aspects of projects and/or programs including scope and deliverables.
• Applying MT project management methodology effectively, utilizing MT project management processes and tools to enforce project standards and meet requirements for MT PMO reporting.
• Developing an appropriate risk management plan on all projects, ensuring timely response and escalation of issues that can lead to unexpected changes in time, quality, scope and budget.
• Applying Change Management principles and tools to enhance successful operationalization of projects.
• Ensuring project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
• Working closely and maintaining strong work relationships with stakeholders and sponsors from all functional areas of business.
• Developing and maintaining key project documentation, including the project plan, periodic reports, schedule, issues, quality and risk documents.
• Providing formalized work direction and leadership to an assigned team that may include external consultants, vendors, firm associates and partners, if applicable.
• Conducting appropriate project meetings, including Project Kickoff, Team and Steering Committee meetings.
• Overseeing key project components including communication plans, change management plans, training plans, testing plans and roll-out plans.
• Ensuring sufficient communication is taking place, at an appropriate level of detail, to keep stakeholders appropriately aware of project statuses.
• May be assisting Business Analysts with identification of business requirements, integration needs, baseline metrics, feasibility studies and cost benefit analyses.
• Providing and maintaining accurate project forecasts for budget, resources and schedules.
• Documenting lessons learned and facilitating their translation into ‘Best Practices’.

Manager, Project Management

• Assisting Project Managers in managing project activities and tasks (scope, plan, budget, schedule, resource, track costs, report; manage issues, risks and change requests) related to all phases of the project (Initiation, Planning, Requirements and Design, Develop, Test, Execution, Training, Communications and Sustainment).
• Leading, as PM, small to medium sized projects where capacity allows.
• Reviewing financials for all projects; compiling monthly and quarterly financial reports for the project portfolio and identifying / addressing discrepancies.
• Conducting periodic financial reviews of all active projects in the portfolio.
• Monitoring and controling project finances (accruals, forecasts, budgets, invoicing).
• Managing agenda and documentation for the Portfolio executive committee meetings.
• Assisting Project Managers in the planning, scheduling and preparation of minutes for all required project meetings.
• Assisting in the organization of all project documents and artefacts according to MT document management practices and protocol.
• Assisting in developing weekly and monthly project status reports as well as monthly project financial reports.
• Documenting and organizing project deliverables, scope and content, including all decisions.
• Participating in identifying risks, developing risk management plan, developing risk response plans, and risk monitoring and control.
• Assisting in the coordination of collection and validation of business requirements and their success criteria with business partners.

Project Coordinator

Legal Assistant

• McCarthy Tétrault is a Canadian law firm offering a full-suite of legal and business solutions to clients in Canada and around the world
• We offer challenging and rewarding career opportunities in our offices in Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Calgary and Vancouver
• We are recruiting for a Bilingual Legal Assistant for the Audit Team to join our team in our Quebec City, Montreal , Toronto , Vancouver or Calgary office
• The successful candidate must have a minimum of 3 years of experience as a Legal Assistant and will be responsible for supporting the national audit inquiry team by managing requests and drafting response letters, assisting business law paralegals and ensuring accurate document filing and coordinating tasks among resource groups
• McCarthy Tétrault employees benefit from a hybrid work environment
• The language requirements emphasize English; more than 60% of work in English
• As a Bilingual Legal Assistant, Audit Team, you will be: Supporting the national audit inquiry team by handling audit inquiry requests, including: First response: gathering all relevant information to conduct an audit inquiry and entering it in the national audit inquiry platform; Research and circulation: conducting research on entities under inquiry, reviewing conflict issues, circulating inquiries, and collecting responses; Response letters: drafting response letters for review by supervising legal counsel
• Providing daily support to business law paralegals
• Coordinating and allocating tasks to various resource groups such as document specialists, administrative clerks and billers as needed, ensuring timely completion
• Maintaining and updating professional knowledge and technical skills by identifying and pursuing training opportunities
• Ensuring the quality and accuracy of all work and completing assignments within reasonable timeframes

Manager, Project Management

Project Coordinator

Bilingual Legal Assistant – Audit