Senior Project Manager

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 Senior 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. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you'll serve as a trusted advisor to clients, an internal leader within the PMO, and a partner to the DACS team Leaders, providing Portfolio Management insights and ongoing delivery optimization recommendations.

Key responsibilities include:

- Lead multi-phase and multi-disciplinary client engagements. - Manage dependencies and coordination across multiple workstreams. - Own project financial performance including forecasting, margin protection, revenue recognition and proactive recovery planning. - Partner with Practice Leadership to optimize delivery/profitability while maintaining client satisfaction. - Drive disciplined scope management and profitability alignment. - Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks before they impact delivery. - Build and maintain relationships with senior client stakeholders and DACS Leadership. - Present project status, risks, and recommendations to client executive audiences. - Present Portfolio and project status, risks, and recommendations to internal executive audiences. - Contribute to project management standards, methodologies, and best practices across the organization - Utilize delivery health indicators to proactively identify emerging risks and recommend corrective actions before client outcomes are impacted.

Your Strengths in Action

- Strong leadership skills with the ability to drive complex engagements from initiation through completion. - Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities. - Proven ability to navigate ambiguity and solve problems in fast-paced environments. - Strong financial acumen and experience managing project profitability. - Passion for mentoring others and elevating team performance. - Demonstrated ability to influence executive decision making through clear communications, data driven recommendations and trusted partnerships.

Your Core Skills & Certifications

- 8–12 years of project management experience. - Demonstrated success leading complex client engagements. - Strong financial governance and executive communication skills. - Experience managing large-scale, multi-workstream projects. - PMP certification or equivalent credential strongly preferred. - Demonstrated experience managing enterprise cloud deployments, specifically utilizing Google Cloud Platform (GCP) technologies strongly preferred.

Nice to Have

- Experience supporting Organizational Change Management (OCM) initiatives, including stakeholder engagement, communication planning, business readiness, training coordination, and user adoption strategies. - Familiarity with Organizational Change Management frameworks such as Prosci ADKAR or similar methodologies. - Prosci Change Management Certification or equivalent experience is a plus. - Experience partnering with business and technical teams to drive successful adoption during enterprise technology and cloud transformation initiatives

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