Senior Project Manager – Modernization

Work Location

New York, New York, United States of America

40

TD Securities

$190,000 - $225,000 USD

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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 work streams. The successful candidate will bring strong project management experience, payments domain knowledge, delivery lifecycle discipline, and the ability to communicate clearly with senior stakeholders.

• Lead planning and execution for assigned Payments Modernization releases, work streams, 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 work streams.
• 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,…