Risk Manager
Accenture
This is a Contract position in Toronto, ON posted January 21, 2025.
- (Internal Title: Risk V)
- Lead the implementation and management of risk management services per the mission and goals of projects and programs from inception through to completion
- Organize and facilitate Project risk workshops and meetings focusing on identifying risks to both Project and Program objectives
- Own and manage the project Risk Register
- Lead and direct the development of the Risk Register through active collaboration with the client and the contractor
- Oversee for risk management analysis, mitigation planning, and status reporting
- Manage the integration of risk items into the schedule and project costing
- Regular interface with Project Controls team to ensure risk items are properly captured in controls and reporting
- Lead risk workshops with Contracting Authority
- Work with internal and external stakeholders to promote joint risk evaluation with contractors to establish a basis for risk transfer and risk sharing
- Report and update, on a monthly basis, high and critical risk elements
- Ensure that work is fully supported from a consulting standpoint in an integrated, compliant, efficient, and cost-effective manner
- Finalize the budget and operating or delivery plan for the risk management services in consultation with the project or program team and client
- Review changes and interventions to ensure risk management service goals are achieved on the project or program
- Facilitate various project focus or function meetings with a spotlight on service initiatives
- Plan for and meet with stakeholders (including senior management and sponsors) to streamline transparent project communications
- Direct the production of accurate and timely reporting of project or program status and performance throughout its life cycle
- Control the delivery of and adherence to the operating or delivery plan scope, schedule, milestones, budgets, and KPIs on the project and address issues with corrective actions as appropriate
- Finalize and sign off on progress reports, proposals, and presentations to various audiences, including team, client executives, and key stakeholders
- Develop risk breakdown structure aligned with project WBS and CBS
- Prepare risk training materials and train the project team on the principles of risk
- Stay abreast of market trends and implement process improvements or efficiencies
- Evaluate risk registers at the project and program level, ensuring quality standards are met
- Perform quantitative cost and schedule risk analysis using Risk Management software (e.g. Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis, Acumen Risk, etc.) and provide the interpretation of results (e.g. Distribution S Curve Graph, Sensitivity Analysis Tornado Chart and Deep Dive Schedule Logic)
- Follow up with risk owners to ensure the mitigation actions are on track, including escalation where required
- Review contractor progress reports and identify the risks impacting project cost and schedule and reflect them in the risk register
- Work closely with scheduling to prepare a high-level schedule (or assess detailed schedules) to be used for quantitative schedule risk analysis and define the link between risks, duration uncertainties, and schedule activities
- Working Conditions
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Office-based
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