Urgent Need Senior Project Manager – PowerPlan Implementation

Tech Mirrors; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Tech Mirrors in Houston, TX is seeking a skilled Senior Project Manager specializing in PowerPlan implementation within the utility industry. The role involves leading comprehensive projects, coordinating cross-functional teams, and ensuring successful execution of complex initiatives.

Ideal candidates will possess substantial enterprise IT project management experience, particularly in ERP solutions, and have a strong background in managing regulatory accounting and financial systems. Certifications such as PMP are essential. This is an onsite position.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of enterprise IT project/program management experience.
• 5+ years leading large-scale ERP, utility finance, or PowerPlan implementations.
• Strong experience managing enterprise utility industry projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end implementation of the PowerPlan platform.
• Manage complex enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams including stakeholders and vendors.

Skills

Enterprise IT project/program management

ERP implementation experience

Experience with PowerPlan

Regulatory accounting

Cloud environments

Leadership

Risk management

Education

PMP (Project Management Professional)

Agile/Scrum Certification

ITIL Certification

Tools

SAP

Oracle

Job description

Title: Senior Project Manager – PowerPlan Implementation (Utility Industry)
Location: Houston, TX (Onsite) C2C/W2

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end implementation of the PowerPlan platform for a large utility organization, including planning, execution, governance, deployment, and stabilization activities.
• Manage complex enterprise transformation initiatives involving utility finance, asset accounting, capital projects, tax, regulatory reporting, and depreciation processes.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams including business stakeholders, PowerPlan vendor resources, system integrators, SAP/ERP teams, infrastructure, database, security, and application support teams.
• Drive overall program governance including project plans, milestones, RAID management, executive reporting, budget tracking, and steering committee communications.
• Lead requirements gathering, solution workshops, business process alignment, and integration planning activities with utility finance and accounting teams.
• Oversee implementation activities related to PowerPlan integrations with enterprise systems such as SAP, Oracle databases, asset management, data warehouse, and reporting platforms.
• Ensure successful execution of data migration, testing, cutover, hypercare, and transition-to-support activities.
• Manage vendor relationships and coordinate deliverables across PowerPlan, implementation partners, infrastructure providers, and third-party consulting organizations.
• Establish and enforce project governance standards, change management processes, risk mitigation strategies, and quality assurance procedures.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity, infrastructure, and cloud teams to ensure compliance, resiliency, disaster recovery, and operational readiness requirements are incorporated into the implementation.
• Drive executive-level communication and provide regular status updates, issue escalation, dependency tracking, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership.
• Support organizational change management, user adoption, training coordination, and operational readiness activities to ensure successful business transition.

Required Qualifications

• At least 12+ years of enterprise IT project/program management experience with at least 5+ years leading large-scale ERP, utility finance, or PowerPlan implementations.
• Preferably, the candidate should have prior experience leading implementation of PowerPlan or similar enterprise financial/accounting SaaS platforms within utility or asset-intensive organizations. Strong experience managing enterprise utility industry projects involving regulatory accounting, fixed assets, capital project accounting, tax, and financial systems modernization.
• Proven experience managing complex integrations across SAP, Oracle, enterprise data platforms, cloud environments, and third-party applications.
• Demonstrated expertise leading large cross-functional teams, system integrators, vendors, and executive stakeholder engagements within utility or energy organizations.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile, Waterfall, hybrid delivery methodologies, enterprise testing, cutover planning, and post-go-live stabilization processes.
• Excellent executive communication, leadership, governance, risk management, budgeting, and vendor management skills.

Preferred Certifications

• PMP (Project Management Professional) – Mandatory
• Agile / Scrum Certification (Preferred)
• ITIL Certification (Preferred)
• SAP or ERP Program Management certifications (Preferred)
• Utility industry or financial systems implementation experience strongly preferred