Senior Project Manager | Enterprise PMO

CBIZ; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

CBIZ is seeking a Senior Project Manager for the Enterprise PMO to plan, manage, and oversee complex projects from inception to closure. You will provide leadership and visibility across related initiatives to ensure scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations are met.

You will partner with sponsors, stakeholders, and project teams to define success criteria, manage risks, and guide effective execution across initiatives.

Qualifications

• College degree or equivalent required.
• 6 years related experience.
• Expert technical knowledge and knowledge of industry regulations.

Responsibilities

• Plan, manage, monitor, and oversee complex projects in accordance with Enterprise PMO standards and objectives.
• Act as a trusted advisor on project issues, risks, and best practices within the scope of responsibilities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define success metrics, deliverables, execution approach, staffing, scheduling, and accountability.
• Develop and maintain formal project documentation including charters, plans, schedules, risk logs, and change control docs.
• Forecast project expenses and coordinate with finance on budget.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Project leadership

Risk management

Agile / Scrum

Vendor management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

SharePoint

Smartsheet

Job description

At CBIZ, we deliver integrated solutions that help middle-market businesses turn strategy into action. By combining national resources with local relationships, deep industry specialization, and services across accounting, tax, advisory, benefits, insurance, and technology, CBIZ provides practical guidance and innovative solutions that help clients grow, manage risk, and improve performance.

As part of CBIZ’s client-focused and execution-oriented environment, the Senior Project Manager, Enterprise PMO is responsible for planning, managing, monitoring, and overseeing complex projects from inception through closure. This role provides leadership, structure, and visibility across related projects to help ensure outcomes are delivered within approved scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations. The position partners with stakeholders, sponsors, and project teams to define success criteria, manage risks and scope changes, drive accountability, and support effective execution across initiatives.

Essential Functions And Primary Duties

• Plan, manage, monitor, and oversee complex projects in accordance with Enterprise PMO standards, business priorities, and approved objectives.
• Operate as a trusted advisor on project issues, trends, risks, opportunities, and best practices within the scope of assigned responsibilities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define project success metrics, criteria, deliverables, execution approach, staffing needs, scheduling, and accountability expectations.
• Apply advanced project management best practices, methodologies, documentation standards, tools, and market awareness to support consistent and effective execution.
• Develop and maintain formal project documentation, including charters, plans, schedules, status reports, communication plans, risk and issue logs, and change control documentation.
• Proactively identify, assess, manage, and elevate scope changes, risks, issues, dependencies, conflicts, and decisions across complex projects.
• Develop communication plans and deliver timely, effective updates to sponsors, leadership, stakeholders, project teams, and other identified audiences.
• Accurately forecast project expenses, manage actuals within an appropriate variance of project budget, and coordinate with financial teams on budget.
• Work with 3rd party vendors, manage 3rd party resources, and manage 3rd party contractual and financial deliverables.
• Manage project team and key stakeholder meetings using clear, engaging, informative, and well-organized agendas, presentations, meeting minutes, and follow-up communications.
• Prepare and maintain accurate project status information and keep sponsors, leadership, stakeholders, and project teams informed of project progress, related issues, risks, and decisions.
• Identify and review opportunities for improvement and implement or recommend solutions to mitigate risk, optimize technology-enabled execution, and strengthen Enterprise PMO processes.
• Administer, maintain, develop, implement, or recommend policies, procedures, practices, and standards within the scope of assigned projects and Enterprise PMO responsibilities.
• Provide leadership, mentoring, coaching, training, and guidance to project team members or less experienced staff as appropriate.
• Perform other duties as assigned to support department and business needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using project management tools, methodologies, dashboards, reporting tools, SharePoint, Smartsheet, or similar platforms.
• Accounting, tax, advisory, benefits, or insurance experience or support is preferred.
• Strong collaborative, conflict management, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• PMP, Agile, Certified ScrumMaster, or related project management certification.
• Must be able to create and manage work breakdown structures, project schedules, project budgets, project risk registries, issue logs at an advanced level.
• Must be able to lead sprint planning sessions, organize and refine backlogs, lead sprint reviews and retrospectives, and guide teams new to Agile.
• Must be able to manage vendors, from contract negotiation through transition to operational support.
• Proven experience in business process improvement using information technology, and organizational change management related to new technology introduction.
• Public accounting firm experience or experience with tax or assurance product development is preferred.
• Knowledge of common business operations applications such as CRM and ERP, is preferred
• Experience managing Merger & Acquisition projects focused on technology transition and integrations is a plus.

Reporting Relationships

• Works with minimal supervision from Enterprise PMO leadership.
• Provides guidance, mentoring, and project leadership to team members.
• May lead project teams as needed.
• Typically has no direct supervisory responsibility.

Discretion and Independent Judgement

• Independently manages complex project activities and priorities.
• Advises stakeholders and coordinates project resources.
• Identifies and resolves project risks and issues.
• Recommends process improvements and best practices.
• Applies Enterprise PMO standards and methodologies.

Minimum Qualifications

• College Degree or equivalent required
• 6 years related experience
• Expert technical knowledge
• Knowledge of industry regulations
• Ability to lead and coordinate the team activities of others
• Ability to formulate, document and recommend new policies and procedures
• Able to work in and lead a team
• Demonstrated ability to communicate verbally and in writing throughout all levels of an organization, both internally and externally
• Ability to travel as required by business and on-call availability

About Us

CBIZ, Inc. (NYSE: CBZ) is a leading professional services advisor to middle-market businesses nationwide. With industry knowledge and expertise in accounting, tax, advisory, benefits, insurance, and technology, CBIZ delivers actionable insights to help clients anticipate what is next and discover new ways to accelerate growth. CBIZ has more than 9,500 team members across 23 major markets coast to coast.

CBIZ strives to be our team members' employer of choice by creating an environment where team members are appreciated, recognized for their contributions, and provided with opportunities to grow, both personally and professionally, throughout their careers.

Together, CBIZ and CBIZ CPAs are ranked as one of the top providers of accounting services in the United States. CBIZ CPAs is an independent CPA firm that provides audit, review and attest services, while CBIZ provides business consulting, tax and financial services. In certain jurisdictions, CBIZ CPAs operates under its previous name, Mayer Hoffman McCann P.C.