Senior ERP Project Manager
Location: Trenton, NJ (Hybrid: 3 days in-office, 2 days remote)
Position Type: Contract
Location: Trenton, NJ (Hybrid: 3 days in-office, 2 days remote)
Position Type: Contract
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Short Description:
Short Description:
The Senior Business PM leads transition from legacy accounting to Oracle Fusion. Reporting to the Director of Budget & Accounting, this role drives process readiness, change management, and stabilization without software configuration.
Complete Description:
- The Senior Business Project Manager (ERP Implementation) serves as the Client's primary, dedicated department-level leader for the statewide transition from the legacy accounting system to the modern Oracle Fusion platform. Reporting directly to the Director of the Office of Budget and Accounting, this hybrid role requires a unique blend of strategic project management, meticulous business process analysis, and change management. The consultant will not configure the software; instead, they will audit, document, and prepare internal processes, interfaces, reporting, and personnel to ensure a seamless operational cutover, running through full post-implementation stabilization.
Core Responsibilities
- Project Leadership & Governance: Serve as the central point of coordination leadership, OIT, OMB, vendors, and the centralized . Maintain risk registers, project schedules, issue logs, and executive readiness scorecards.
- Business Process & Data Mapping: Audit, optimize, and map current fiscal workflows (appropriation management, encumbrances, federal grants, accounts payable/receivable) into a comprehensive Fiscal Operations Process Library.
- Ecosystem & Interface Assessment: Document all local systems, peripheral databases, and manual spreadsheets leveraging legacy data to identify technical gaps, SimpliGov workflow dependencies, and data conversion risks.
- Reporting & Analytics Overhaul: Inventory all mission-critical fiscal reports, identifying updates or redevelopments required to align with the new NJHIVE Chart of Accounts (COA).
- Change Management & Training: Design and execute a Department-wide Change Management and Communications Plan. Author user manuals, build the Future-State Fiscal Operations Manual, and administer role-specific training programs.
- Testing, Cutover, & Hypercare Support: Coordinate local staff participation in State-led testing phases. Manage deployment cutover protocols and provide dedicated hands-on stabilization support (Hypercare) through the first full fiscal year close post-go-live.
- Minimum Qualifications& Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Information Technology, or a related field (Master’s degree or relevant executive experience preferred).
- Required Experience: Minimum of 8 to 10 years of progressive, hands-on experience managing complex business transformations, enterprise-level ERP financial implementations, detailed process mapping, and project delivery.
- Required Core Skills: Mastery of current/future-state process mapping (Visio/Lucidchart), stakeholder management, and cross-functional project management frameworks.
Required Skills:
- Cross-Functional PM / BA Hybrid Experience Required 8 Years
- Business Process Mapping & Tools Required 8 Years
- Change Management & Communication Planning Required 8 Years
- Large-Scale ERP / Financial System Implementations (Atleast 2 implementations) Required 6 Years
- LinkedIn Profile Required
- Public Sector / Government Finance Experience Highly desired 5 Years
- Data Conversion & Report Auditing Highly desired 5 Years
- Low-Code Workflow Automation Experience Highly desired 3 Years
- PMP Certification Highly desired
- CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional), or Prosci Certified Change Manager Certification Highly desired
Flexible work from home options available.
Compensation: $85.00 - $90.00 per hour
DEW Softech, Inc is a Global IT consulting firm specializing in staff augmentation/staff selection, solution development, solution outsourcing, and software development. Dew Softech, Inc assists our clients in defining, evaluating, selecting, and implementing solutions that advance the goal and objectives of their company, creating a competitive advantage. Dew Softech, Inc also specializes in ERP Consulting.
Our Mission
To provide business, IT consulting and other software services with inbuilt and fresh ideas that help organizations serve their customers better through smarter use of Information Technology.
Our success is dependent upon the results that we deliver. As a matter of policy our mission is to consistently exceed client expectations, not just meet them.
Our success is dependent upon the results that we deliver. As a matter of policy our mission is to consistently exceed client expectations, not just meet them.
Our Ethics
We are proud to proclaim that Biblical principles are our guiding force for our ethical values and we do our best for the tasks we undertake as a Global IT Solutions provider.
Our vocation is to help the proclamation of Good News, Feed the Hungry, Help the Widows and Orphans to the best of our ability as mandated by GOD.
Our vocation is to help the proclamation of Good News, Feed the Hungry, Help the Widows and Orphans to the best of our ability as mandated by GOD.
Careers
We offer excellent salaries/hourly rate, paid vacation and other benefits. We regard people as the most valuable asset. Therefore our firm's policies are designed to attract the most qualified professionals in the IT industry. If you enjoy challenges, expect to be accountable for results, and find visibility appealing, then you'll have an outstanding career at Dew Softech.
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