Job Description Inside our Project Management Office The Project Management Office (PMO) at Burwood Group, now part of Sikich, is a dynamic team of professionals dedicated to leading, coordinating, and delivering complex…
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$71k–$150k/yr
Full-time
professional certificate
Posted 10d ago
~40 hrs/week
Responsibilities
The Project Manager will lead complex, high-impact client engagements by coordinating cross-functional teams and ensuring alignment with scope, schedule, and budget. They are responsible for managing project risks, financial forecasting, and maintaining strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
Requirements
Candidates should have 3 to 5 years of project management experience, preferably within a consulting or technology environment. A PMP certification is preferred, along with strong skills in financial management and experience with cloud implementation projects.
Full job description
Job Description
Inside our Project Management Office
The Project Management Office (PMO) at Burwood Group, now part of Sikich, is a dynamic team of professionals dedicated to leading, coordinating, and delivering complex projects that drive business transformation for clients across diverse industries. Renowned for its innovative, customer-focused approach, the PMO combines deep project management expertise with a strong commitment to collaboration, continuous improvement, and achieving impactful results.
How You’ll Make an Impact
As a Project Manager aligned to our Data and Application Cloud Services (DACS) team, you will lead complex, high-impact client engagements that may involve multiple workstreams, diverse stakeholder groups, and cross-practice collaboration. You will ensure successful project delivery while aligning with client expectations, contractual commitments, financial targets, and strategic objectives. As a Project Manager aligned to our Data & Application Cloud Services (DACS) team, you will lead client engagements while partnering closely with Senior Project Managers, Practice Leadership, and technical delivery teams. This role is ideal for a project management professional ready to take the next step in their consulting career by leading increasingly complex cloud transformation initiatives.
Key responsibilities include:
Manage medium to large client engagements from initiation through successful delivery, partnering with PMO and Practice Leadership as appropriate.
Coordinate cross-functional delivery teams to achieve project objectives while maintaining alignment to scope, schedule, budget, and quality.
Manage project plans, dependencies, risks, issues, and action items across multiple workstreams.
Support project financial management, including forecasting, budget tracking, revenue recognition, and project profitability.
Drive disciplined scope management and facilitate change requests in accordance with contractual commitments.
Proactively identify project risks and develop mitigation plans before they impact delivery.
Build and maintain trusted relationships with clients, delivery teams, and internal stakeholders.
Present project status, financial health, risks, and recommendations to client and internal stakeholders.
Utilize delivery health indicators to proactively identify emerging risks and recommend corrective actions.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of project management standards, methodologies, and delivery best practices.
Qualifications
Your Strengths in Action
Demonstrates ownership and accountability for successful project delivery.
Strong communication and relationship-building skills with technical and business stakeholders.
Effectively manages multiple priorities in a fast-paced consulting environment.
Sound business and financial judgment with an understanding of project profitability.
Proactively identifies risks and drives solutions before they impact project outcomes.
Thrives in a collaborative environment and is eager to continuously learn and grow.
Communicates confidently with project teams, clients, and leadership.
Your Core Skills & Certifications
3 to 5 years of project management experience, preferably within consulting, professional services, or technology organizations.
Experience leading medium to large technology implementation projects.
Experience managing project scope, schedule, budget, and risks.
Strong organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Experience supporting project financial management, forecasting, and reporting.
Experience supporting cloud migration or cloud implementation projects is preferred.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience is a plus.
Nice to Have
Experience supporting stakeholder engagement, communication planning, business readiness, or user adoption activities during technology implementations.
Familiarity with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid project delivery methodologies.
Exposure to enterprise cloud transformation initiatives.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
The urgent need for technology to solve business problems more efficiently, decrease costs, and mitigate risk has increased. Burwood helps businesses rethink how they utilize technology to improve productivity, employ new business models, and pursue new revenue streams.
Burwood's recent acquisition by Sikich brings together complementary organizations that provide an unwavering focus on client service and an unmatched depth and breadth of services. Together, we help organizations manage risk, maintain compliance, and make the most of their technology investments.
Sikich offers the public and private sectors a diverse platform of professional services across consulting, technology and compliance. Highly specialized and hands -on teams deliver integrated solutions rooted in deep industry experience. Our approach is strategically and thoughtfully designed to help our clients, teams and communities accelerate success. Sikich has approximately 2,000 team members and operates across North America, EMEA and APAC.
Offices: 1515 W 22nd St, Oak Brook, Illinois 60523, US · 10680 Treena St, Suite 530, San Diego, California 92131, US · 200 W College Ave, Suite 403, Normal, Illinois 61761, US · 4450 N Prospect Rd, Suite S-9, Peoria Heights, Illinois 61616, US · 410 Eisenhower Ln N, Lombard, Illinois 60148, US
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The urgent need for technology to solve business problems more efficiently, decrease costs, and mitigate risk has increased. Burwood helps businesses rethink how they utilize technology to improve productivity, employ new business models, and pursue new revenue streams.
Burwood's recent acquisition by Sikich brings together complementary organizations that provide an unwavering focus on client service and an unmatched depth and breadth of services. Together, we help organizations manage risk, maintain compliance, and make the most of their technology investments.
Sikich offers the public and private sectors a diverse platform of professional services across consulting, technology and compliance. Highly specialized and hands -on teams deliver integrated solutions rooted in deep industry experience. Our approach is strategically and thoughtfully designed to help our clients, teams and communities accelerate success. Sikich has approximately 2,000 team members and operates across North America, EMEA and APAC.
Offices: 1515 W 22nd St, Oak Brook, Illinois 60523, US · 10680 Treena St, Suite 530, San Diego, California 92131, US · 200 W College Ave, Suite 403, Normal, Illinois 61761, US · 4450 N Prospect Rd, Suite S-9, Peoria Heights, Illinois 61616, US · 410 Eisenhower Ln N, Lombard, Illinois 60148, US
Business Advisory ServicesBusiness CommunicationDisaster RecoveryHealthcareHigher EducationManaged & Support ServicesNetwork SecurityProject LeadershipTechnology StrategyDevOps