Finance Transformation Project Manager

Dewberry•Fairfax, VA

1d•$101,000 - $140,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Finance Transformation Project Manager works across Accounting, Financial Operations, Financial Systems, and Data Strategy & Analytics, as well as other business and technology teams, to identify improvement opportunities and coordinate initiatives across organizational boundaries. Reporting to the Director of Data Strategy & Analytics, the role receives leadership, coaching, and guidance while taking ownership of navigating the organization and moving initiatives forward. The Chief Financial Officer is the executive sponsor for the broader Finance transformation portfolio. The position calls for initiative, curiosity, independence, and sound judgment. The Project Manager turns loosely defined problems into structured initiatives, builds relationships, connects people and capabilities, and influences progress without formal authority. The role uses modern project-management, collaboration, automation, and AI tools, and supports responsible adoption of technology with appropriate governance, security, and human review. Dewberry is a professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. Its work emphasizes collaboration, quality of service, integrity, and complex projects across the industry.

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.
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 through effective questions and develop 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 work, including research, communication, project management, documentation, analysis, and process improvement.
Intellectual curiosity and 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, together 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 is 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 work, inefficient handoffs, bottlenecks, and recurring problems, and assess potential improvements to operations, planning, forecasting, analysis, and business support.
Help stakeholders define problems, outcomes, requirements, dependencies, and success measures before developing solutions.
Develop working knowledge of ERP, EPM, CRM, HR, BI, and related platforms to connect business needs with technical experts and translate operational needs into clear requirements.
Coordinate process, system, data, and technology initiatives, including requirements gathering, testing, validation, rollout, communication, training, and adoption.
Identify dependencies across systems, processes, teams, and initiatives; maintain visibility into commitments, decisions, and risks; and bring appropriate leaders and experts together to resolve issues requiring business decisions.
Support responsible Finance adoption of AI and automation by identifying practical use cases and helping incorporate approved tools into workflows, with attention to governance, security, and human review.
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 inconsistent terminology, undocumented rules, unclear ownership, process gaps, and concentrated institutional knowledge.
Help establish and maintain practical standards, tools, and practices for process maps, process inventories, business glossaries, and related organizational knowledge; facilitate validation 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 objectives, stakeholders, responsibilities, dependencies, timelines, and next steps.
Use sound judgment about which issues to advance independently and which require leadership involvement; align significant initiatives with the Director of Data Strategy & Analytics, CFO, and functional leaders.
Build consensus where possible and surface competing priorities and unresolved decisions when leadership involvement is needed.
Use ClickUp or comparable work-management platforms to maintain project plans, tasks, milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, decisions, and follow-ups, keeping information sufficiently accurate and current for stakeholders.
Develop dashboards, portfolio views, and other mechanisms for 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 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.
Encourage stakeholders to raise concerns and challenge assumptions, and navigate disagreements constructively toward practical solutions.
Adapt communication to executives, technical specialists, business leaders, and employees performing day-to-day work.
Explain the purpose, impact, and value of proposed changes; identify resistance or organizational concerns early 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.