Project Manager, Consulting Delivery

Xerxes Global • Bloomington, MN

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About The Position

Blue Ops is seeking an experienced Project Manager, Consulting Delivery, to support client engagements across its M&A Analytics, Quality of Earnings, and Finance & Accounting Operations practices. The role embeds with consulting teams to turn client objectives into clear plans, coordinate execution, and help deliver work on time, within scope, and within budget. Engagements vary in scope, pace, and complexity, including transaction-related analytics, financial diligence, finance operations onboarding, and ongoing client support.

The Project Manager works with business development and practice leadership as projects take shape, helping define scope, timelines, resourcing, and delivery expectations. Across multiple concurrent engagements, the role leads project management from kickoff through closeout, including planning, coordination, progress tracking, risk management, stakeholder communication, and change control. The position does not own technical analysis or client advice, but uses practical judgment to ask questions, challenge assumptions, identify dependencies, and help address delivery risks.

As an early member of Blue Ops' emerging Transformation & Delivery practice, the Project Manager will help shape practical project management approaches across the company. The role builds trusted relationships with consultants, practice leaders, and clients, adapting its approach to each team's needs while improving delivery consistency.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Project Management, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 5 years of experience managing client-facing projects, preferably in professional services, consulting, financial services, or business operations.
• Experience coordinating complex consulting engagements from scoping and kickoff through execution and closeout.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent engagements with varying timelines, stakeholders, and levels of project management support.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and manage project plans, milestones, ownership, resources, budgets, and deliverables across different project types.
• Experience monitoring project financials, including actual hours against budgets, resource forecasts, scope changes, and change-order support.
• Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams, surface delivery risks, and drive accountability without direct reporting authority.
• Excellent client-facing communication and relationship-management skills, including confidence facilitating meetings and navigating difficult conversations about timelines, budgets, priorities, and scope.
• Experience with formal or lightweight project management approaches and judgment to select an appropriate level of structure for each engagement.
• Strong organization and proactive prioritization in a fast-paced, client-service environment.
• Collaborative, hands-on leadership style, strong problem-solving skills, executive presence, and ability to earn the trust of consultants and client stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to M&A, financial diligence, or finance operations.

Responsibilities

• Partner with practice leaders and account teams during pre-sales to clarify client objectives, project scope, estimated effort, deliverables, and Statement of Work commitments.
• Translate engagement commitments into realistic milestones, work plans, ownership, and delivery expectations suited to each project.
• Develop and maintain right-sized project plans that identify phases, milestones, task ownership, dependencies, resources, and client deliverables.
• Coordinate internal and client kickoffs to align stakeholders on objectives, scope, responsibilities, timelines, and communication expectations.
• Monitor a portfolio of active engagements in Forecast, tracking progress, resourcing, actual and projected hours against budgets, and SOW commitments.
• Identify delivery risks, budget overruns, and scope changes; surface and respond to escalations, align next steps with practice leadership, and help teams resolve exceptions.
• Join client discussions when risks, escalations, written approvals for scope or budget changes, or key decisions require the Project Manager's involvement.
• Prepare and manage project invoices in Forecast, ensuring accurate and timely billing and appropriate practice-lead review and approval.
• Support accounts receivable follow-up and resolve billing questions in partnership with Finance and practice leadership.
• Identify opportunities for continued client engagement and recommend future projects based on insights gained during delivery.
• Partner with practice leadership to develop and present engagement recaps highlighting work completed, value delivered, and key insights.
• Lead project closeout, confirm deliverables, review project performance, and capture lessons learned.
• Establish and uphold consistent project management standards, core processes, documentation requirements, and systems of record across Blue Ops.
• Adapt project management approaches to the needs of each practice, engagement, and team, and improve delivery practices by streamlining processes and introducing effective tools.

Benefits

• Three HealthPartners High Deductible Health Plan options.
• Health Savings Account with medical plan enrollment.
• Principal PPO dental insurance with 100% in-network preventive care.
• Principal / VSP PPO vision insurance.
• Retirement plan with a 3% employer contribution regardless of employee contribution, eligible after six months of employment.
• Reimbursement for approved, job-relevant professional development, tuition, and certifications, eligible after six months of employment and subject to manager approval.
• Complimentary access to an interactive online learning platform for all employees.
• Employee referral bonus of $2,500 per successful referral.
• Company-paid basic life insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment coverage.
• Optional short-term and long-term disability insurance.
• Three weeks of paid time off per calendar year.
• Eight paid company holidays.
• Parental leave.
• Summer Fridays with early release at noon between Memorial Day and Labor Day, subject to workload and client deliverables.
• Work from anywhere during the week of Thanksgiving, the week between Christmas and New Year's, and one additional flexible week per year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level