Senior Project Manager – Payments Modernization

About the role

The Senior Project Manager will support the successful delivery of TD's Payments Modernization portfolio, with a primary focus on Modern High Value Payments and related cross-border wires modernization initiatives. This role will lead complex delivery planning, integrated execution, governance coordination, RAID management, stakeholder engagement, vendor coordination, and executive-ready reporting across business, operations, technology, risk, compliance, and vendor partners. The role requires a strong delivery leader who can operate in a highly matrixed environment, manage multiple releases and dependencies, support TD delivery governance expectations, and help drive disciplined execution across program workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning and execution for assigned Payments Modernization releases, workstreams, and delivery activities, ensuring scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and decisions are actively managed
• Partner with business, operations, technology, product, risk, compliance, change management, finance, and vendor stakeholders to align delivery expectations and maintain clear ownership across workstreams
• Support Modern High Value Payments delivery activities, including release planning, integration readiness, operational readiness, vendor deliverables, testing coordination, implementation planning, and transition-to-BAU considerations
• Translate complex delivery activity into clear, actionable plans, status updates, escalation materials, and decision-ready recommendations for leadership and governance forums
• Maintain delivery discipline in alignment with TD governance expectations, including project delivery lifecycle checkpoints, required artifacts, approvals, RAID management, financial tracking inputs, and escalation protocols
• Identify, document, and actively manage risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, decisions, and change impacts; ensure mitigation plans, owners, due dates, and escalation paths are clearly defined
• Support regulatory, operational, technology, and compliance considerations associated with high-value payments modernization, ISO 20022 enablement, cross-border wires, vendor integration, and platform transition activities
• Prepare materials for working groups, leadership reviews, steering forums, and executive updates, ensuring content is concise, fact-based, action-oriented, and aligned to TD standards
• Demonstrate inclusive leadership and model TD's shared commitments by fostering collaboration, transparency, accountability, and respectful challenge across cross-functional teams
• Drive follow-through by ensuring owners, due dates, actions, risks, and decisions are clearly captured, communicated, and tracked to closure
• Support a positive delivery culture focused on execution discipline, continuous improvement, proactive issue resolution, and strong stakeholder partnership
• Coach and guide project team members, analysts, scrum masters, and delivery partners as needed to strengthen planning quality, reporting discipline, and governance readiness

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive project management or delivery leadership experience, preferably within banking, financial services, payments, technology delivery, or large-scale transformation programs
• Demonstrated experience managing complex projects across business, operations, technology, vendor, risk, compliance, finance, testing, change management, and governance stakeholders
• Strong knowledge of project management disciplines, including integrated planning, milestone management, dependency tracking, RAID management, financial awareness, governance reporting, and executive communications
• Experience working within Agile, waterfall, or hybrid delivery models, including coordination across scrum teams, delivery pods, release plans, and cross-functional working groups
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce concise leadership updates, meeting materials, action summaries, escalation notes, and decision-ready recommendations
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities, maintain delivery momentum, and drive closure across multiple owners and stakeholders
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, project planning tools, collaboration platforms, JIRA/Confluence, Clarity, and reporting materials used to manage enterprise delivery execution
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience required

Preferred Skills

• Strong understanding of payments, wires, high-value payments, ISO 20022, SWIFT, Fedwire, payment operations, or payment processing workflows
• Experience with vendor deliverables, SOW coordination, delivery checkpoints, requirements/design documentation, testing readiness, implementation planning, and production readiness
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile, Scrum Master, SAFe, or related delivery certification
• Payments, banking operations, risk management, change delivery, or financial services transformation experience

Pay

$190,000 - $225,000 USD

Schedule

40 hours