PMO Transitions Manager — Internal & Client Programs

Baker Tilly US; Frisco (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Baker Tilly is seeking a Transitions Manager to lead internal PMO operations and serve as the client PMO lead for multi‑workstream projects in the Accounting & Finance Services transitions team.

You will drive governance, integrated plans, KPI development, data capture, and monthly reporting from kickoff through stabilization and handoff to recurring service teams, ensuring successful outcomes for clients.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Technology, Operations, Project Management, or a related field preferred.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the client‑facing PMO lead for complex, multi-workstream transition projects.
• Lead transition programs from kickoff through operational readiness, stabilization, and handoff to recurring service teams.
• Manage project scope, timelines, milestones, budgets, deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, actions, and decisions.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans across client, internal, vendor, technology, and operational workstreams.
• Establish project governance, meeting cadences, reporting requirements, decision forums, escalation paths, and stakeholder communications.
• Coordinate activities across client stakeholders, internal delivery teams, functional leaders, third parties, and subject matter experts.
• Streamline and manage internal PMO processes, templates, standards, controls, and operating rhythms.
• Develop and manage operational KPIs, including performance measures, calculation methods, data sources, reporting thresholds, ownership, and accountability.
• Maintain transition playbooks, lessons learned, reusable assets, and knowledge‑management materials.
• Produce monthly operational reporting, including portfolio dashboards, KPI scorecards, trend analyses, and executive‑level summaries.

Skills

PMO leadership

Client facing

Process improvement

Data analytics

Governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Technology, Operations, Project Management, or a related field

Job description

Baker Tilly is seeking a Transitions Manager to lead internal PMO operations and serve as the client PMO lead for multi‑workstream projects in the Accounting & Finance Services transitions team.

You will drive governance, integrated plans, KPI development, data capture, and monthly reporting from kickoff through stabilization and handoff to recurring service teams, ensuring successful outcomes for clients.