{"id":2869327,"url":"https://alion.io/job/dewberry-finance-transformation-project-manager","title":"Finance Transformation Project Manager","company":{"id":1980050,"name":"Dewberry","domain":"dewberry.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/dewberry","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"iCIMS","truth_index":null},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Fairfax, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":101000,"max":140000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":140000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":7,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Asana","optional":false},{"name":"ClickUp","optional":false},{"name":"Jira","optional":false},{"name":"Monday.com","optional":false},{"name":"Smartsheet","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-19T18:55:26Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-19","last_verified_at":"2026-10-30T18:58:56Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":11,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":11},"description":"Job Description\nReporting to the Director of Data Strategy & Analytics, the Finance Transformation Project Manager works across four primary areas - Accounting, Financial Operations, Financial Systems, and Data Strategy & Analytics - as well as other business and technology teams as needed. The role builds relationships across these areas, identifies opportunities for improvement, connects the right people and capabilities, and coordinates initiatives that span organizational boundaries. The Chief Financial Officer serves as executive sponsor for the broader Finance transformation portfolio.\nThis role is expected to operate with a high degree of initiative, curiosity, independence, and judgment. The successful candidate will proactively build relationships, ask questions, identify opportunities, and help turn loosely defined problems into structured initiatives. The Director of Data Strategy & Analytics provides leadership, coaching, and guidance, while the Project Manager is expected to take ownership of navigating the organization and moving initiatives forward.\nSuccess requires exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, structured problem solving, sound judgment, organizational awareness, and the ability to influence and create momentum without relying on formal authority. The successful candidate will also be comfortable embracing new technology and using modern project-management, collaboration, automation, and AI tools as part of their day-to-day work.\nDewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 60 locations and 2,500 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors are our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you’re an experienced professional or a new graduate, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call “Dewberry at Work,” that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century. \nResponsibilities\n1. Finance Process & Technology Transformation\nBuild relationships across Finance to understand priorities, workflows, pain points, and emerging needs, and proactively identify opportunities rather than waiting for assignment.\nIdentify manual activities, inefficient handoffs, bottlenecks, and recurring problems, and evaluate opportunities to improve day-to-day work as well as planning, forecasting, analysis, and business support.\nHelp stakeholders define problems, desired outcomes, requirements, dependencies, and measures of success before solutions are developed.\nDevelop a working understanding of the ERP, EPM, CRM, HR, BI, and related platforms supporting Finance - sufficient to connect business needs with the appropriate technical experts and to translate operational needs into clear requirements.\nCoordinate initiatives involving process, system, data, or technology change, including requirements gathering, testing, validation, rollout, communication, training, and adoption.\nIdentify dependencies across systems, processes, teams, and initiatives early enough for them to be addressed, and maintain visibility into commitments, decisions, and risks.\nRecognize when an issue requires a business decision and bring the appropriate leaders and subject-matter experts together to resolve it.\nActively support responsible adoption of AI and automation across Finance by helping teams understand new capabilities, identify practical use cases, and incorporate approved tools into existing workflows - approaching emerging technology with curiosity and a willingness to experiment, learn, and adapt while recognizing appropriate governance, security, and human-review requirements\nTranslate technical concepts into understandable business language and business needs into productive discussions with technical teams.\n2. Business Knowledge & Process Mapping\nHelp establish and maintain a structured and sustainable understanding of how Finance operates so that institutional knowledge can support process improvement, transformation, analytics, automation, and AI initiatives.\nFacilitate discovery with subject-matter experts to understand and document how important Finance processes operate in practice.\nDocument and map end-to-end processes, roles, terminology, business rules, systems, dependencies, decision points, controls, and exceptions across Finance functions and information flows.\nIdentify conflicting terminology, undocumented business rules, unclear ownership, process gaps, and areas where important institutional knowledge is concentrated with individual employees.\nHelp establish practical standards, tools, and maintenance practices for process maps, process inventories, business glossaries, and related organizational knowledge.\nFacilitate validation of documented processes and business knowledge with the appropriate functional leaders and subject-matter experts.\nPartner with Data Strategy & Analytics to provide validated business and process knowledge that can inform semantic models, enterprise ontology, analytics, automation, and AI capabilities.\n3. Cross-Functional Project Leadership & Portfolio Management\nTurn loosely defined problems into structured initiatives with clear objectives, stakeholders, responsibilities, dependencies, timelines, and next steps.\nExercise sound judgment in determining which issues can be advanced independently and which require leadership involvement, working with the Director of Data Strategy & Analytics, CFO, and appropriate functional leaders to align significant initiatives with broader Finance priorities.\nBuild consensus where possible and surface competing priorities or unresolved decisions when leadership involvement is needed.\nUse ClickUp or comparable project and work-management platforms to create and maintain project plans, tasks, milestones, owners, dependencies, risks, decisions, and follow-up activities, keeping information accurate and current enough that stakeholders have reliable visibility into status and next steps.\nDevelop dashboards, portfolio views, and other mechanisms that provide leadership with clear visibility across initiatives.Establish practical standards for project documentation, status reporting, and risk management that create accountability without introducing unnecessary administrative burden.\nUse automation and AI where appropriate to reduce manual project administration, improve reporting, identify risks, and summarize activity, preserving more time for stakeholder engagement and problem solving.\nKeep initiatives moving when responsibility crosses organizational boundaries, influencing through credibility, relationships, communication, and sound reasoning rather than positional authority.\n4. Change Leadership, Communication & Relationship Management\nBuild trusted relationships across Finance and the broader organization, listening actively and understanding different perspectives before recommending a path forward.\nCreate an environment where stakeholders feel comfortable raising concerns and challenging assumptions, and navigate disagreements constructively toward practical paths forward.\nUnderstand organizational dynamics and adapt communication and approach to executives, technical specialists, business leaders, and employees performing day-to-day work.\nExplain the purpose, impact, and value of proposed changes, recognizing resistance or organizational concerns early and helping teams work through them.\nFacilitate productive meetings and working sessions that result in clear decisions, responsibilities, and next steps.\nDevelop clear, concise presentations, project updates, recommendations, and decision materials.\nBuild credibility through reliability, discretion, follow-through, and sound judgment.\nRequired Skills & Required Experience\nRequired\nBachelor’s degree required.\n7+ years of experience in project or program management, business operations, transformation, process improvement, change management, consulting, or another cross-functional role.\nDemonstrated experience leading or coordinating initiatives involving multiple teams and stakeholders.\nExceptional interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.\nDemonstrated ability to build trusted relationships across organizational levels and professional disciplines.\nAbility to influence, create accountability, and move initiatives forward without relying on formal authority.\nStrong critical-thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving skills.\nAbility to take ambiguous or loosely defined problems, ask effective questions, and develop a structured path forward.\nExperience documenting and mapping business processes, including facilitating discovery with subject-matter experts and translating institutional knowledge into structured, maintainable documentation.\nStrong organizational skills and demonstrated follow-through.\nAbility to manage multiple initiatives, stakeholders, dependencies, and priorities simultaneously.\nDemonstrated proficiency with modern project and work-management platforms such as ClickUp, Asana, Monday.com, Smartsheet, Jira, or comparable tools.\nAbility and willingness to use AI-enabled tools as part of day-to-day work, including research, communication, project management, documentation, analysis, and process improvement.\nIntellectual curiosity and demonstrated willingness to learn and adopt emerging technologies rather than relying exclusively on established ways of working.\nComfort learning unfamiliar processes, systems, and technologies.\nInitiative and independence combined with sound judgment regarding when guidance, collaboration, or escalation is appropriate.\nPreferred\nExperience establishing or maintaining business-process repositories, knowledge-management practices, business glossaries, process inventories, or similar organizational knowledge structures.\nExperience supporting Finance, Accounting, business operations, or enterprise transformation initiatives.\nExperience in professional services, architecture, engineering, consulting, or another project-based environment.\nExperience with process improvement, organizational change, or technology-enabled transformation.\nExposure to ERP, EPM, CRM, HR, BI, or other enterprise platforms.\nExperience working across business and technology organizations.\nExperience using AI or automation to improve productivity, project execution, business processes, or team workflows.\nExperience helping teams adopt new technologies or ways of working.\nExperience preparing materials, recommendations, or decision support for senior leadership.\nProject management, process-improvement, or change-management certification is a plus but not required.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nBring structure and momentum to complex, cross-functional Finance initiatives.\nBuild credibility across Accounting, Financial Operations, Financial Systems, Data Strategy & Analytics, and senior leadership.\nAnticipate issues, connect the right people, and surface decisions or risks before they stall progress.\nOperate independently while knowing when leadership involvement is needed.\nBecome a trusted source of context across Finance - understanding what is underway, why it matters, who is involved, and what needs attention next.\n*At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.\n*Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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