Senior Project Manager

GroupA; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

GroupA is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead a global transition of Tax and Accounting services from an incumbent provider to a new service model. The role requires coordinating internal stakeholders, the external providers, and regional teams to ensure a controlled, structured handover.

You'll establish a comprehensive transition plan, manage timelines and dependencies, and drive accountability across Finance functions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field and 10+ years in PM, program mgmt, or PMO leadership.
• Proven success leading complex cross-functional transitions with internal and external partners.
• Experience coordinating multi-region initiatives and vendor transitions.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end planning and execution of the global Tax and Accounting services transition.
• Develop and maintain an integrated transition roadmap with milestones and dependencies.
• Coordinate activities across Accounting, Tax, Treasury, and regional teams.
• Establish governance with RAID logs, status meetings, and executive reporting.
• Identify risks and issues, develop mitigation plans, and drive timely resolutions.
• Facilitate knowledge transfer and ensure readiness before go-live.
• Track performance against commitments and report progress to leadership.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Planning and governance

Risk management

Executive reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Project Management, or a related field

Tools

SAP

Smartsheet

MS Project

Job description

• Requirements - GC holder or USC required
• Location - Remote

Project Manager, Global Finance Services Transition

Overview

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to join our client company to lead and coordinate a global transition of Tax and Accounting services from an incumbent external service provider to a new service provider.

Partnering closely with Accounting and Tax leadership, this role will lead the end-to-end planning and execution of the transition, coordinating internal stakeholders, the incumbent provider, the incoming provider, and regional teams. The Project Manager will establish and maintain an integrated transition plan, manage entity-level timelines and dependencies, coordinate knowledge transfer, monitor readiness, and ensure each entity transitions in a controlled and structured manner.

The role will primarily focus on Accounting and Tax, with coordination across Treasury and other Finance functions where processes, systems, services, or operational dependencies overlap. Success will require strong project management discipline, experience leading complex vendor transitions, and the ability to establish structure, drive accountability, and maintain momentum across a global, cross-functional initiative.

This is a hands‑on leadership role for an independent, results-oriented project manager who can bring multiple internal and external parties together around a common plan, proactively identify and resolve issues, facilitate critical decisions, and diplomatically hold stakeholders accountable for commitments and deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end planning and execution of the global transition of Tax and Accounting services from the incumbent provider to the incoming service provider.
• Develop and maintain an integrated transition roadmap, including project plans, timelines, milestones, entity-level sequencing, dependencies, deliverables, and readiness criteria.
• Coordinate transition activities across Accounting, Tax, Treasury, regional Finance teams, internal stakeholders, and external service providers.
• Manage entity-by-entity transition activities from initial planning and knowledge transfer through testing, cutover, go-live, and post-transition stabilization.
• Establish and maintain effective project governance, including regular status meetings, steering committee updates, RAID logs, action‑item tracking, decision logs, and escalation processes.
• Identify and proactively manage project risks, issues, dependencies, resource constraints, and timeline conflicts; develop mitigation strategies and drive resolution.
• Facilitate working sessions across internal teams and external providers to align on scope, roles and responsibilities, deliverables, expectations, and timelines.
• Coordinate knowledge‑transfer activities between the incumbent provider, internal teams, and the incoming provider, ensuring critical process knowledge and documentation are effectively transferred.
• Monitor transition readiness and ensure appropriate process documentation, training, controls, testing, and operational support arrangements are in place before go‑live.
• Coordinate testing, validation, business acceptance, stakeholder sign‑off, and cutover activities to support successful service transitions.
• Manage issues, escalations, and key decision points, ensuring timely resolution and appropriate visibility and engagement from leadership.
• Track external provider performance against agreed project commitments, milestones, deliverables, timelines, and expected outcomes.
• Prepare executive‑level communications, project dashboards, status reports, and leadership presentations that provide clear visibility into progress, risks, decisions, and required actions.
• Monitor post‑transition stabilization, drive resolution of outstanding issues, and facilitate the formal handoff of transitioned services to steady‑state operational teams.
• Partner with Finance leadership to maintain alignment on transition objectives, priorities, resource requirements, and business expectations throughout the engagement.
• Build effective working relationships and drive collaboration across global teams, time zones, cultures, and functional areas.

Requirements

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Project Management, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in project management, program management, consulting, business transformation, or PMO leadership.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, cross‑functional initiatives involving internal stakeholders, regional teams, and external service providers.
• Proven experience managing service‑provider transitions, outsourcing initiatives, shared services implementations, operating‑model changes, or comparable business transformations.
• Experience coordinating global or multi‑region initiatives involving entity‑level requirements, timelines, and dependencies.

Core Skills and Competencies

• Strong command of project management methodologies and tools, including integrated planning, project governance, milestone tracking, RAID management, decision tracking, and executive‑level reporting.
• Working knowledge of Finance and Accounting processes, systems, internal controls, and reporting requirements.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and organizational skills, with the ability to influence across functions and levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated ability to drive accountability, facilitate decisions, manage competing priorities, and diplomatically challenge stakeholders when commitments or deliverables are at risk.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving capabilities, with the ability to anticipate challenges, assess dependencies, and develop practical solutions.
• Ability to operate independently in an ambiguous, fast‑paced environment while maintaining focus on execution and results.
• Flexibility to work across global time zones and effectively collaborate with geographically dispersed teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading transitions involving Finance, Accounting, Tax, Treasury, or Global Business Services.
• Direct experience transitioning services between external service providers.
• Familiarity with Record‑to‑Report (R2R), tax compliance, treasury operations, statutory reporting, or related Finance processes.
• Experience working in SAP or comparable ERP environments.
• Experience operating in a SOX‑regulated or similarly controlled environment.
• Experience coordinating process documentation, knowledge transfer, training, testing, cutover, stabilization, and transition to steady‑state operations.
• Familiarity with Smartsheet or similar project and work‑management platforms.
• Experience supporting global organizations with decentralized operations or regionally varied processes.
• PMP, Lean, Six Sigma, or other relevant project management certification.