[Hiring] Senior Project Manager @WWF International

Role Description

As Senior Project Manager – Hazina Implementation, you hold day-to-day delivery accountability for Project Hazina, a strategic initiative to implement a unified, cloud-based Global Finance & Accounting System (GFAS) on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations. The goal of the project is to replace an ageing, fragmented finance systems landscape across more than 30 entities, including the Secretariat and its managed Country Offices. The project will be delivered over approximately two years.

You are accountable for delivering the project within the scope, schedule, budget, and quality set by the project governance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field; a postgraduate qualification or professional finance qualification is an advantage.
• Minimum of 10 years' progressive experience in the delivery of enterprise business systems, including at least 7 years in project or programme management roles, of which at least 5 years managing enterprise finance or ERP implementations.
• Demonstrated accountability for at least one full-lifecycle ERP or enterprise finance implementation — selection or mobilization through design, build, migration, testing, go-live and stabilization — delivered in a multi-entity, multi-currency and multi-country environment.
• Experience managing programmes of comparable financial scale and duration, with personal accountability for a multi-million budget, a formal stage-gate governance regime and reporting to executive or board-level committees.
• Proven experience directing a major implementation partner, systems integrator or consultancy as client-side lead, including deliverable acceptance, change control and commercial challenge.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations, or of a comparable enterprise ERP platform, sufficient to challenge design, configuration and estimates credibly; familiarity with the wider Microsoft ecosystem and integration patterns is an advantage.
• Sound understanding of core finance processes — general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, fixed assets, budgeting, project and grant accounting, consolidation, treasury and month-end close — and of the control and audit requirements around them.
• Recognised project management certification (PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent) required; an ERP implementation credential and a change-management certification such as Prosci are strongly preferred.
• Experience of the non-profit, international development or multilateral sector, including donor and grant-funded environments, is an advantage; experience of federated or membership-based organisations is highly valued.

Requirements

• Authoritative delivery leadership: able to hold a large, multi-party project to plan, make decisions with incomplete information, and recover a situation that is drifting.
• Strong commercial and negotiation skills, with the confidence to challenge a major consultancy on estimates, scope and quality while keeping the working relationship productive.
• Excellent executive communication: concise written papers and clear verbal briefing for board-level committees, alongside plain, practical communication with finance teams in Country Offices.
• Analytical and financial rigour: comfortable with cost models, benefit cases, variance analysis and the evidence behind a forecast.
• Sound judgement on risk: knows what to resolve, what to escalate, and when a milestone should not be signed off however much pressure sits behind it.
• Influence without authority across a federated organization, and the cultural sensitivity to work effectively with colleagues in very different operating contexts.
• Resilience and composure over a sustained, high-visibility delivery, with the personal credibility to be trusted by both the Executive Team and the people doing the work.
• Full professional proficiency in English; French or Spanish is an advantage.

Benefits

• Work in a diverse and inclusive environment.
• Opportunity to make a positive difference to the future of people and the Earth.
• Engage in a global movement calling for bolder action on climate and nature.

Company Description

WWF is an independent conservation organization, striving to sustain the natural world for the benefit of people and the ecosystem. We work to address the most dominant drivers of nature loss through system-wide changes in how food and energy are produced and consumed, and in how financial systems are structured.

With over 60 years of experience and an active presence in more than 100 countries, we aim to drive visible and positive impacts on the ground, helping to restore nature in the most critical places around the world.

WWF is committed to using its resources and global network to support Indigenous Peoples and local communities in creating effective solutions where they live.