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Job Description

Job Description Summary:

We’re seeking a seasoned Senior Project Manager to lead transformative technology initiatives across Accounting and Finance processes and systems. This role will drive modernization and integration efforts involving platforms such as JD Edwards (JDE) and Medius (A/P), ensuring seamless collaboration between Technology (IT) and Business Operations. Reporting to the Director of Project Portfolio Management (PMO), the ideal candidate has 7+ years of ERP-related project leadership experience, including successful delivery in mid-sized company transformations.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional planning and orchestration of technology initiatives focused on Accounting & Finance processes and systems.

• Partner with sponsors, business owners, analysts, and SMEs to define project scope, business case, ROI, resource needs, and vendor deliverables.

• Adhere, advocate and contribute improvements to PMO framework and project management standards.

• Leveraging deep understanding of Financial systems, partner with project sponsors, business process owners, business analysts, technical SMEs within Technology (IT), Finance, Accounting, Purchasing to organize, refine and document project business case, scope, goals, ROI/value argument, resource requirements, vendors services and project work deliverables, including Change Management.

• Build and drive ongoing refinement, updates and execution against a comprehensive project plan ensuring Assigned team members are well-informed of timelines and interdependencies – and capture estimating inputs from all team members.

• Oversee and drive projects that will upgrade finance and accounting systems to latest versions, improve data quality, and optimize usability of systems features.

• Oversee and drive projects that will contribute to Billing and Cost Analytics/Decision Support systems maturity by improving data quality, enabling latest systems capabilities and automation.

• Proactively communicate with internal Business Operations and Technology teams, external vendors, and stakeholders to ensure well-coordinated project execution, manage risks and issues and provide transparency to stakeholders and executive sponsors.

• Partner with internal ACCO stakeholders on Change Management considerations to ensure a successful sequencing of communications, training and deployment of new processes and systems.

• Collaborate with colleagues using multiple back-office productivity and collaboration tools: Smartsheet, Box, Google Workspace (Gmail, GCalendar, GChat, Gemini-AI), Zoom, Lucid Charts, PowerPoint, Jira.

• Partner with shared service --IT QA-- to ensure Quality Delivery via comprehensive test plans. In partnership with Technology Business Operations analysts, Business Process Owners, Developers (internal and external vendors). Oversee completion of Day in the Life (DITL) aka User Acceptance Test (UAT) in non-production environments. Ensure technical QA testing is documented and executed successfully prior to UAT/DITL.

• Maintain and uphold project management best practices: Scope Management, Risk & Issue & Decision Management, Schedule/Task Planning, Status, Stakeholder Management.

• Orchestrate project resources and team members to ensure translation of high-level business cases and requirements are expanded into detailed Functional Requirements Specifications (FRS), Technical Design Documents (TDD) and Technical Specifications (TS) to ensure lower-level technical configuration in systems are traceable to back to the FRS.

• Partner with receiving Technology App/System Manager to compile “Transition to Support” Plan, including a Control Plan that defines when ROI confirmations are conducted to confirm value is achieved for PMO value-tracking analysis.

• Conduct project health assessments, lessons learned as directed by PMO, project sponsors.

• Other work as assigned.

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Skills and Requirements

Position Requirements (Skills, Knowledge, Abilities):

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, MIS, or related field.

• Project Management certification, in good standing. (PMP preferred; Prince2 considered)

• Deep understanding of ERP systems (preferably JD Edwards), Finance/Accounting modules, GAAP and data integration best practices.

• Demonstrated experience with Accounting & Finance reporting and analytics platforms deployment projects.

• Demonstrates strong team leadership, fluid partnering interaction style, clear and concise written & verbal communication skills.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Excellent verbal and written communication; adept at executive-level presentations.

• Analytical mindset with problem-solving agility.

• Experience with Smartsheet and Jira. Preferred: Experience with Smartsheet for Project Management plans, dashboard status reporting; similar with Jira. Aptitude to learn Smartsheet and Jira techniques to tailor project reports, as needed.

• Familiarity with Change Management frameworks (PROSCI, ADKAR preferred).

• Ability to manage multiple overlapping projects with discretion and confidentiality.