Digital Senior Project Manager

CliftonLarsonAllen LLP; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k

Job summary

CLA, a top national professional services firm, is expanding its Digital Consulting practice in the Phoenix area. We seek a Senior Digital Project Manager to lead digital initiatives, manage scope, budgets, and timelines, and work with cross-functional teams to drive adoption and value realization.

You will apply standard project management practices (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid), communicate progress clearly to stakeholders, and contribute to process improvements for higher delivery quality.

Qualifications

• 4 years of experience in project management.
• Bachelor's degree required (combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted).
• PMI, Agile, and/or Scrum certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day execution of assigned projects, ensuring delivery on time, within scope, and on budget.
• Develop and manage project artifacts: charters, plans, schedules, RAID logs.
• Apply Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid methodologies to fit client needs.
• Build relationships with stakeholders to ensure high-quality client experience.
• Monitor progress, milestones, risks, and issue mitigation with leadership.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to support delivery and governance.
• Provide clear status updates and documentation to stakeholders.
• Proactively manage budgeting, forecasting, and tracking against financial targets.
• Support user adoption and realization of business outcomes with change management.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of digital project delivery processes and tools.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Agile

Waterfall

Budgeting

Forecasting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you.

CLA is an established top 10 accounting and tax advisory firm expanding its Digital Consulting practice. Our Digital Consulting Enablement Team helps organizations turn digital investments into meaningful business outcomes. Our team partners with clients to lead complex digital initiatives-aligning strategy, technology, and people to drive adoption, value realization, and lasting impact.

Senior Digital Project Manager

CLA is currently seeking a Senior Digital Project Manager to join our growing Digital practice. This role is responsible for the successful delivery of projects by managing scope, budget, timelines, coordinating tasks, and ensuring alignment with project goals. Works closely with cross-functional teams to track progress, flag and mitigate risks, and maintain clear communication with stakeholders. Contributes to process improvements and applying standard project management practices to ensure consistency and quality.

Essential Job Functions

• Manage day-to-day execution of assigned projects, ensuring delivery is on time, within scope, and on budget in alignment with client's digital priorities and outcomes.
• Develop and manage key detailed project artifacts, such as charters, plans, schedules, resource plans, RAID logs to drive clarity, accountability, and execution discipline.
• Apply and adapt standard project management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid) and tools to fit project and client needs, ensuring consistency and quality across engagements.
• Build strong relationships with various stakeholders, including service lines, industry groups, enterprise functions, vendors, and client teams ensuring a high-quality client experience.
• Monitor project progress, track key milestones and deliverables, and proactively identify, develop mitigation strategies, and elevate risks or issues to leadership.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to support project execution and governance, facilitating decision‑making forums, managing stakeholders, and driving timely resolution of risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Provide clear, concise, actionable, and consistent updates, status reports, and documentation to stakeholders and leadership, highlighting progress, risks, key decisions and discussion topics.
• Proactively manage financials, including budgeting, forecasting, and tracking project performance against financial targets.
• Partner with change management and business stakeholders to support user adoption, readiness, and realization of intended business outcomes.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance Digital project delivery processes, tools, and team collaboration.

REQUIREMENTS

Experience

4 years of experience working in project management required.

Education

Bachelor's degree required. (Combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in lieu of degree.)

Certifications / Licenses

None required.

Project Management Institute, Agile, and/or Scrum certification(s) preferred.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

Wellness at CLA

To support our CLA family members, we focus on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well‑being and offer comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more.