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Inside our Project Management Office

The Project Management Office (PMO) at Burwood Group, now part of Sikich, is a dynamic team of professionals dedicated to leading, coordinating, and delivering complex projects that drive business transformation for clients across diverse industries. Renowned for its innovative, customer-focused approach, the PMO combines deep project management expertise with a strong commitment to collaboration, continuous improvement, and achieving impactful results.

How You'll Make an Impact

As a Project Manager aligned to our Data and Application Cloud Services (DACS) team, you will lead complex, high-impact client engagements that may involve multiple workstreams, diverse stakeholder groups, and cross-practice collaboration. You will ensure successful project delivery while aligning with client expectations, contractual commitments, financial targets, and strategic objectives. As a Project Manager aligned to our Data & Application Cloud Services (DACS) team, you will lead client engagements while partnering closely with Senior Project Managers, Practice Leadership, and technical delivery teams. This role is ideal for a project management professional ready to take the next step in their consulting career by leading increasingly complex cloud transformation initiatives.

Key responsibilities include:

• Manage medium to large client engagements from initiation through successful delivery, partnering with PMO and Practice Leadership as appropriate.
• Coordinate cross-functional delivery teams to achieve project objectives while maintaining alignment to scope, schedule, budget, and quality.
• Manage project plans, dependencies, risks, issues, and action items across multiple workstreams.
• Support project financial management, including forecasting, budget tracking, revenue recognition, and project profitability.
• Drive disciplined scope management and facilitate change requests in accordance with contractual commitments.
• Proactively identify project risks and develop mitigation plans before they impact delivery.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with clients, delivery teams, and internal stakeholders.
• Present project status, financial health, risks, and recommendations to client and internal stakeholders.
• Utilize delivery health indicators to proactively identify emerging risks and recommend corrective actions.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of project management standards, methodologies, and delivery best practices.

Your Strengths in Action

• Demonstrates ownership and accountability for successful project delivery.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills with technical and business stakeholders.
• Effectively manages multiple priorities in a fast-paced consulting environment.
• Sound business and financial judgment with an understanding of project profitability.
• Proactively identifies risks and drives solutions before they impact project outcomes.
• Thrives in a collaborative environment and is eager to continuously learn and grow.
• Communicates confidently with project teams, clients, and leadership.

Your Core Skills & Certifications

• 3 to 5 years of project management experience, preferably within consulting, professional services, or technology organizations.
• Experience leading medium to large technology implementation projects.
• Experience managing project scope, schedule, budget, and risks.
• Strong organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience supporting project financial management, forecasting, and reporting.
• PMP certification (or progress toward certification) preferred.
• Experience supporting cloud migration or cloud implementation projects is preferred.
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience is a plus.

Nice to Have

• Experience supporting stakeholder engagement, communication planning, business readiness, or user adoption activities during technology implementations.
• Familiarity with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid project delivery methodologies.
• Exposure to enterprise cloud transformation initiatives.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.