Senior Project Manager

Job Description

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. 

Qualifications

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

Additional Information

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