IT Business Partner - Canada

Description

• Foster a culture of collaboration and teamwork, encouraging open communication, knowledge-sharing, and cross-functional problem-solving to achieve common goals
• Foster a culture of effective communication within the IT organization to engage and inform employees.
• Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders, including internal customers, suppliers, and partners, to ensure effective collaboration and alignment.
• Enhance the world around you - from the environment to the highways, to the buildings and the terrain, WSP is the fabric of Canada.
• Ensure compliance with relevant policies, procedures, and standards, and promote a culture of data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement in management
• Develop and lead unit employees if applicable by monitoring individual performance, ensuring individual development plans, providing mentorship, and leading the recruitment process with appropriate onboarding
• Partner closely with business leaders to align IT initiatives with the region's business objectives, ensuring that IT contribute to the region's success.
• Ensure efficient daily IT service delivery of the regional IT unit with high quality and good performance
• Provide thought leadership on emerging trends and best practices and leverage this knowledge to drive innovation and create value for the organization
• Promote a safe and healthy work environment that prioritizes employee well-being and work-life balance
• Partner with the IT leadership to define strategic IT objectives and secure necessary financing for technology investments
• Partner with the enterprise IT function to establish and maintain transparent financial reporting
• Foster strong relationships with regional business stakeholders, including senior executives, and capture their evolving needs and strategic objectives.
• Oversee the general direction of regional projects and plans
• Ensure continuous identification and mitigation of risks, as well as the development of business continuity plans for critical IT services
• Collaborate with marketing and communications teams to promote the organization's use of technology and position it as an industry leader.
• Standardize IT policies, procedures, and documentation across the organization
• Collaborate with service hub and enterprise IT stakeholders and to ensure fulfillment of business needs, and adoptions of global solutions and standards
• Adhere to company policies, including conducting systematic occupational health and safety work, reporting and taking prompt corrective action on risks, logging and reporting long term actions, and participating in department-wide talent management and succession planning

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in budget planning and financial reporting is required.
• Strong understanding of business processes and the ability to align technology solutions with business needs.
• Proficiency in both French and English, spoken and written, is essential, as this position involves regular collaboration with colleagues and stakeholders on an international scale.
• Possess relevant certifications in the ITIL framework, Project Management, IT Information Security, Microsoft and Storage products/platforms or related fields are a plus.
• Ability to adapt to changing business priorities and work in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to communicate to both operations-oriented employees and business executives, as well as employees across business regions and enterprise functions.
• Bachelor’s degree in technical/Computer Science field and/or equivalent work experience.
• 3+ years of specialization in similar IT business partnering role, preferably in large enterprise.
• Analytical mindset and problem-solving skills to identify and address business and technology challenges.

Benefits

• Outstanding career opportunities - we're growing and pushing ourselves every day to be greater than yesterday - we're open to your ideas and trying new things.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance