Lead Project Manager - Financial System Implementation

Overview

Berry Dunn is seeking a Lead Project Manager to join our State Government Practice Group within our Consulting Team. This contingent position is intended to support a potential engagement with a state housing finance agency. The selected candidate would serve as the client-side project lead and day-to-day representative for a complex enterprise software implementation supporting accounting, single-family programs, multifamily programs, mortgage servicing, data migration, testing, training, and organizational adoption.

The Lead Project Manager would coordinate the client, software vendor, subcontractors, and other project participants while maintaining clear governance, delivery controls, executive reporting, and accountability for project outcomes.

Travel Expectations:Up to 50% travel to client sites will be required to support this engagement and future client projects. Travel requirements will vary based on client needs, project phase, and Berry Dunn's project portfolio. Candidates located, or willing to relocate to, within commuting distance of the client's office Helena, MT is a value-add.

As a Lead Project Manager, you will:

• Serve as the client’s day-to-day project representative and primary point of coordination with software vendors, third parties, and internal stakeholders.
• Develop, maintain, and execute an integrated project management plan, schedule, milestones, resource plan, governance structure, and reporting cadence.
• Lead project governance and support steering committee, working team, decision, escalation, and change control processes.
• Maintain project risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, decisions, actions, and change requests, and provide clear recommendations for resolution.
• Prepare concise executive-level status reports that communicate project health, schedule variance, key risks, issues, dependencies, decision documents, and corrective actions.
• Coordinate business process review, requirements validation, system configuration, data migration, testing, training, cutover, go-live, and stabilization activities across the project team.
• Oversee vendor performance and review vendor plans, deliverables, schedules, risks, and quality against approved requirements and contractual expectations.
• Facilitate timely decision-making and prepare recommendations for client approval of deliverables, changes, and key project decisions.
• Lead integrated readiness and cutover planning, including entry and exit criteria, dependency management, issue escalation, stakeholder communications, and go-live recommendations.
• Oversee post-go-live stabilization, including issue resolution, system performance, user adoption, support transition, and continuous improvement recommendations.
• Produce and quality-review client-facing project deliverables, meeting materials, status reports, decision documents, and escalation communications.
• Partner with Berry Dunn colleagues across project management, data, technical, business process, testing, organizational change management, training, and housing finance disciplines.
• Support business development activities for state government project, program, and enterprise system implementation opportunities, including proposal development and client presentations.

As an SGPG team member, you will:

• In partnership with our internal team, lead and support business development and opportunity management activities to identify new opportunities, make go/no go decisions, and respond to state government opportunities related to ERP systems.
• Assist in the career development of our team to deepen team capabilities and services related to state government ERP system projects.
• Develop appropriate relationships with ERP system SIs and solution providers in the state…