Finance Transformation Project Manager

Dewberry•Fairfax, VA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

Reporting to the Director of Data Strategy & Analytics, the Finance Transformation Project Manager works across Accounting, Financial Operations, Financial Systems, and Data Strategy & Analytics, as well as other business and technology teams. The role builds relationships, identifies improvement opportunities, connects people and capabilities, and coordinates initiatives spanning organizational boundaries. The Chief Financial Officer is the executive sponsor for the broader Finance transformation portfolio. The Project Manager is expected to operate with initiative, curiosity, independence, and sound judgment—proactively building relationships, asking questions, identifying opportunities, and structuring loosely defined problems into initiatives. The Director of Data Strategy & Analytics provides leadership, coaching, and guidance, while the Project Manager takes ownership of navigating the organization and moving work forward. Success calls for strong communication and interpersonal skills, structured problem solving, organizational awareness, and the ability to influence and create momentum without formal authority. The role also uses modern project-management, collaboration, automation, and AI tools as part of day-to-day work. Dewberry is a market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. The company emphasizes exceptional talent, high-quality client service, collaboration, innovative and complex projects, personal integrity, and its “Dewberry at Work” attributes. The role coordinates Finance process and technology transformation; documents and maps Finance processes and business knowledge; leads cross-functional projects and portfolio-management practices; and supports change leadership, communication, and relationship management. Responsibilities include gathering requirements, coordinating testing and adoption, identifying dependencies and risks, supporting responsible AI and automation adoption, maintaining project plans and portfolio visibility, facilitating stakeholder discovery and decisions, and communicating changes and recommendations to varied audiences. The projected annual salary range is $101,000–$140,000 for the Fairfax, Virginia office. The range may vary slightly based on skills, experience, location, and market conditions. Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization. The employer is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Offer recipients are subject to background screening in compliance with applicable law.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required.
At least 7 years of experience in project or program management, business operations, transformation, process improvement, change management, consulting, or another cross-functional role.
Demonstrated experience leading or coordinating initiatives involving multiple teams and stakeholders.
Exceptional interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships across organizational levels and professional disciplines.
Ability to influence, create accountability, and move initiatives forward without formal authority.
Strong critical-thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to clarify ambiguous or loosely defined problems by asking effective questions and developing a structured path forward.
Experience documenting and mapping business processes, facilitating discovery with subject-matter experts, and translating institutional knowledge into structured, maintainable documentation.
Strong organizational skills and demonstrated follow-through.
Ability to manage multiple initiatives, stakeholders, dependencies, and priorities simultaneously.
Demonstrated proficiency with modern project and work-management platforms such as ClickUp, Asana, Monday.com, Smartsheet, Jira, or comparable tools.
Ability and willingness to use AI-enabled tools in day-to-day research, communication, project management, documentation, analysis, and process improvement.
Intellectual curiosity and demonstrated willingness to learn and adopt emerging technologies rather than relying exclusively on established ways of working.
Comfort learning unfamiliar processes, systems, and technologies.
Initiative and independence, combined with sound judgment about when guidance, collaboration, or escalation is appropriate.

Nice To Haves

Experience establishing or maintaining business-process repositories, knowledge-management practices, business glossaries, process inventories, or similar organizational knowledge structures.
Experience supporting Finance, Accounting, business operations, or enterprise transformation initiatives.
Experience in professional services, architecture, engineering, consulting, or another project-based environment.
Experience with process improvement, organizational change, or technology-enabled transformation.
Exposure to ERP, EPM, CRM, HR, BI, or other enterprise platforms.
Experience working across business and technology organizations.
Experience using AI or automation to improve productivity, project execution, business processes, or team workflows.
Experience helping teams adopt new technologies or ways of working.
Experience preparing materials, recommendations, or decision support for senior leadership.
Project-management, process-improvement, or change-management certification; a plus but not required.

Responsibilities

Build relationships across Finance to understand priorities, workflows, pain points, and emerging needs, and proactively identify improvement opportunities.
Identify manual activities, inefficient handoffs, bottlenecks, and recurring problems, and evaluate opportunities to improve daily work, planning, forecasting, analysis, and business support.
Help stakeholders define problems, desired outcomes, requirements, dependencies, and success measures before solutions are developed.
Develop working knowledge of ERP, EPM, CRM, HR, BI, and related platforms to connect business needs with technical experts and translate operational needs into requirements.
Coordinate process, system, data, and technology change initiatives, including requirements gathering, testing, validation, rollout, communication, training, and adoption.
Identify cross-system, process, team, and initiative dependencies, and maintain visibility into commitments, decisions, and risks.
Bring issues requiring business decisions to the appropriate leaders and subject-matter experts.
Support responsible AI and automation adoption in Finance by identifying practical use cases and helping teams incorporate approved tools while recognizing governance, security, and human-review requirements.
Translate technical concepts into business language and business needs into productive discussions with technical teams.
Facilitate discovery with subject-matter experts and document how important Finance processes operate in practice.
Map end-to-end processes, roles, terminology, business rules, systems, dependencies, decision points, controls, exceptions, and information flows across Finance.
Identify conflicting terminology, undocumented business rules, unclear ownership, process gaps, and concentrated institutional knowledge.
Help establish standards, tools, and maintenance practices for process maps, process inventories, business glossaries, and related organizational knowledge.
Facilitate validation of documented processes and business knowledge with functional leaders and subject-matter experts.
Partner with Data Strategy & Analytics to provide validated business and process knowledge for semantic models, enterprise ontology, analytics, automation, and AI capabilities.
Turn loosely defined problems into structured initiatives with clear objectives, stakeholders, responsibilities, dependencies, timelines, and next steps.
Determine which issues can be advanced independently and which require leadership involvement, aligning significant initiatives with Finance priorities in collaboration with the Director of Data Strategy & Analytics, CFO, and functional leaders.
Build consensus where possible and surface competing priorities or unresolved decisions requiring leadership involvement.
Use ClickUp or comparable platforms to maintain project plans, tasks, milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, decisions, and follow-ups, providing reliable visibility into status and next steps.
Develop dashboards, portfolio views, and other mechanisms that provide leadership visibility across initiatives.
Establish practical standards for project documentation, status reporting, and risk management without unnecessary administrative burden.
Use automation and AI where appropriate to reduce project administration, improve reporting, identify risks, and summarize activity.
Keep cross-organizational initiatives moving by influencing through credibility, relationships, communication, and sound reasoning rather than positional authority.
Build trusted relationships across Finance and the broader organization, listen actively, and understand different perspectives before recommending a path forward.
Create an environment where stakeholders can raise concerns and challenge assumptions, and navigate disagreements constructively.
Adapt communication and approach to executives, technical specialists, business leaders, and employees performing day-to-day work.
Explain the purpose, impact, and value of proposed changes, recognize resistance or organizational concerns, and help teams address them.
Facilitate productive meetings and working sessions that produce clear decisions, responsibilities, and next steps.
Develop clear, concise presentations, project updates, recommendations, and decision materials.
Build credibility through reliability, discretion, follow-through, and sound judgment.