Hybrid Project Manager - Digital Transformation Lead

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; Durham (NC); Hybrid; USD 73,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants is seeking a Project Manager for Digital Transformation in Durham, NC. This hybrid role requires in-office presence two days per week and a track record of leading complex projects from initiation to close.

You will manage scope, budgets, and schedules, coordinate cross-functional teams, and drive improvements using Lean, Agile, and Six Sigma principles. Strong communication with sponsors and stakeholders is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience managing complex projects.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with important company partners and project sponsor(s) to understand, define, and document scope of work, budget, and resources needed.
• Manage, distribute, and archive project scope documents, project plans, schedules, project scorecards, and other critical and essential project documentation.
• Guide delivery of projects by ensuring you meet deliverable due dates, and by navigating schedule changes, resource challenges, enforcing milestones/deadlines, tracking risks and escalating them.
• Convene, facilitate, and document project meetings, ensuring communication of critical information to project team, partners, and sponsor(s).
• Contribute to culture of operational improvement by conducting retrospectives or lessons-learned meetings.
• Promote continuous improvement by project management of multiple teams and other efforts. These efforts include those focused on effectiveness of business activities and processes. They use process optimization methodologies and concepts such as Lean, Agile, and Six Sigma.
• In collaboration with functional team, lead, coordinate and assign resources or third parties/vendors for projects.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Budgeting

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PM tools

Job description

American Institute of Certified Public Accountants is seeking a Project Manager for Digital Transformation in Durham, NC. This hybrid role requires in-office presence two days per week and a track record of leading complex projects from initiation to close.

You will manage scope, budgets, and schedules, coordinate cross-functional teams, and drive improvements using Lean, Agile, and Six Sigma principles. Strong communication with sponsors and stakeholders is essential.