Senior Manager, Project Applications (Oracle Projects

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As a Senior Manager, Project Applications, you will lead the enterprise applications that support project accounting and project management across AECOM. Reporting to the Director of Project Administration and Financial Systems, you will be responsible for the strategy, reliability, support, enhancement roadmap, and delivery of Oracle Projects, related reports and interfaces, and custom project management applications.

You will lead a blended team of internal analysts and external delivery partners while working closely with business and IT leaders across a complex global organization. This role requires a leader with deep project-accounting functional expertise, strong implementation and production-support experience, and the technical fluency to partner effectively with development, integration, reporting, and architecture teams.

This position will offer flexibility for hybrid work schedules to include both in-office presence and telecommute/virtual work, to be based from either Houston or Dallas, TX.

• Lead, coach, and develop internal team members and outsourced resources; establish priorities, manage capacity, and hold delivery partners accountable for service levels, quality, and results.
• Own the stability, security, performance, and supportability of project applications, including incidents, service requests, recurring-problem resolution, enhancements, change control, access requests, audits, and corrective actions.
• Provide functional leadership for Oracle Projects and related project-accounting processes, such as project costing, project billing, revenue generation, Auto Accounting, burdening, transfer pricing, and cross-charge.
• Lead implementations, conversions, migrations, and major enhancements from requirements and solution design through configuration, testing, deployment, and post-production stabilization.
• Maintain a 12-month operational and enhancement roadmap, contribute to resource and budget planning, and align longer-term technology plans with business priorities.
• Partner with technical teams on application architecture, integrations, reporting, data, and scalable solutions while maintaining effective change-control and implementation practices.
• Build trusted relationships across business and IT teams, translate business needs into actionable solutions, support multiple business groups and country-specific localizations, and identify opportunities to improve application efficiency and user experience.

• Bachelor's Degree plus at least 10 years of experience supporting, implementing, and maintaining enterprise project applications, reports, and interfaces, including 3 years of leadership experience, or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education
• Deep functional experience supporting and improving enterprise project-accounting systems, with knowledge of processes such as project costing, project billing, revenue, burdening, transfer pricing, or cross-charge. Oracle Projects experience is strongly preferred; candidates with comparable enterprise project-accounting platform experience will also be considered.
• Experience leading a system implementation, conversion, migration, or…