AECOM is seeking a Senior Manager, Oracle PPM & Project Accounting Applications to lead the enterprise applications that support project costing, billing, revenue recognition, and project financial management across our global business.
Reporting to the Director of Project Administration and Financial Systems, this role will own the reliability, support, enhancement roadmap, and continued modernization of Oracle Projects / Oracle PPM, related reports and interfaces, and custom project-management applications.
This is a hands-on functional leadership role for someone who combines deep project-accounting systems expertise with implementation experience, production application ownership, and team leadership. You will lead approximately 4–5 internal team members while helping oversee external delivery partners and working closely with Finance, Project Controls, IT, and business leaders across AECOM
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.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide functional leadership and ownership for Oracle Projects / Oracle PPM and related project-accounting processes, including Project Costing, Project Billing, Revenue Generation, AutoAccounting, Burdening, Transfer Pricing, Cross-Charge, and related project financial processes.
- Lead, coach, and develop internal team members while managing priorities, capacity, delivery quality, and performance across internal and outsourced resources.
- Own the stability, security, performance, and supportability of project applications, including incidents, recurring problems, service requests, enhancements, change control, access requests, audits, and corrective actions.
- Lead implementations, conversions, migrations, major enhancements, and system rollouts from requirements and solution design through configuration, testing, deployment, go-live, and post-production stabilization.
- Translate Finance, Project Controls, Billing, and business requirements into functional specifications, workflows, configurations, test cases, and actionable technical solutions.
- Partner with technical teams on integrations, reporting, data, application architecture, and scalable enterprise solutions.
- Maintain a 12-month application roadmap and contribute to longer-term modernization, architecture, resource, and budget planning.
- Identify opportunities to simplify processes, eliminate recurring production issues, improve system performance, and enhance the user experience.
- Support project applications used across multiple business groups, countries, and localizations.
- Manage delivery partners and vendors, including service levels, quality, commitments, and accountability.