[Hiring] Lead Project Manager @BerryDunn

Role Description

BerryDunn 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
• 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 BerryDunn's project portfolio. Candidates located, or willing to relocate to, within commuting distance of the client's office in Helena, MT is a value-add.

Qualifications

• At least five years of experience leading complex enterprise software implementation, modernization, or systems integration projects.
• Demonstrated experience working with/in Housing Finance Agencies.
• Experience serving in a client-side, owner-side, project management office, program management, or independent oversight role.
• Strong knowledge of project governance, integrated planning, schedule management, change control, risk and issue management, dependency tracking, decision management, and executive reporting.
• Experience coordinating business process review, requirements validation, data migration, system integration, testing, user acceptance testing, training, deployment readiness, cutover, go-live, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Ability to assess vendor performance, identify delivery variances, and communicate practical corrective actions in a clear and constructive manner.
• Ability to lead meetings, facilitate decisions, manage competing priorities, and maintain progress across multiple workstreams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing client-facing status reports, governance materials, decision documents, and executive communications.
• Demonstrated critical thinking, organization, problem-solving, self-management, and relationship-building skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications and project planning, collaboration, reporting, and presentation tools.

Requirements

• PMI Project Management Professional certification (PMP).
• Demonstrated experience working with/in a housing finance agency, department of housing, public housing authority, mortgage or loan servicing organization, or comparable public-sector financial program.
• Demonstrated experience implementing enterprise systems that support accounting, lending, loan servicing, single-family programs, multifamily programs, affordable housing, grants, compliance, or financial reporting.
• Demonstrated experience overseeing data migration, data governance, system integration, reconciliation, testing, and regulatory or internal-control requirements.
• Demonstrated experience developing or reviewing project artifacts for regulated environments, including financial controls, data security, auditability, and compliance documentation.

Compensation Details

The base salary range targeted for this role is $90,000–$135,000. This salary range represents BerryDunn’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting. If an applicant possesses experience, education, or other qualifications in excess of the minimum requirements for this posting, that applicant is encouraged to apply, and a final salary range may then be based on those additional qualifications; compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, years of experience, depth of experience, seniority, merit, education, training, amount of travel, and other relevant business considerations.

Benefits

Our people are what make BerryDunn special, and in return we strive to support our employees and help them thrive. Eligible employees have access to benefits that go beyond what’s expected to support their physical, mental, career, social, and financial well-being. Visit our website for a complete list of benefits and a look into our culture.

Company Description

BerryDunn is the brand name under which Berry, Dunn, McNeil & Parker, LLC and BDMP Assurance, LLP, independently owned entities, provide services. Since 1974, BerryDunn has helped businesses, nonprofits, and government agencies throughout the US and its territories solve their greatest challenges. The firm’s tax, advisory, and consulting services are provided by Berry, Dunn, McNeil & Parker, LLC, and its attest services are provided by BDMP Assurance, LLP, a licensed CPA firm.