GMS Project Manager

This is a REMOTE role, but expected to travel to Company Site as needed.Project Ownership & Alignment· Experience in financial reporting related to grants and philanthropic funding. · Familiarity with grant impact data, performance metrics, and outcome reporting.· Experience supporting audit readiness, compliance controls, and documentation.· Experience coordinating data governance and data quality, including data ownership, validation rules and post-go-live stewardship· Own the integrated business project plan including milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and decision points across CSR, IT, Finance, and vendors.· Operate within the Legal, Compliance, & Corporate Responsibility (LCCR) project management governance standards, including status reporting, RAID tracking (risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies), escalations, and participation in steering forums.· Serve as a primary coordination point between business readiness activities and IT delivery timelines. Business Requirements & Solution Validation· Validate business requirements definition, ensuring alignment on scope, assumptions and success criteria with all involved stakeholders.· Partner with IT business analysts and system integrators to ensure accurate translation of business requirements into system design, configuration, and integrations.· Maintain requirements traceability across design, build, testing, and go-live to ensure business outcomes are met within specified timelines.· Facilitate business review and sign-off of requirements, solution designs, and key configuration decisions. Change Management & Organizational Readiness· Experience partnering with various stakeholders in a matrixed environment to support enterprise alignment on vision, objectives, timelines, and change impacts.· Experience developing and executing change management strategies including stakeholder mapping, readiness assessments, training coordination, and adoption tracking.· Demonstrated ability to prepare executive-level updates, project risk summaries, and decision briefs.· Accountable for change and communications execution, including stakeholder-specific messaging, senior-level talking points, and adoption measurement.· Define and coordinate role-based training approaches, including global rollout considerations and measurement of training effectiveness.Additional Highly Valued Skillsets· Systems integration awareness (finance, procurement, compliance, contract management).· Experience supporting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) integrated implementations, including financial systems (e.g., SAP), with an understanding of grants-to-ERP data flows, vendor master data, cost centers, GL postings, and reconciliation considerations· Data migration and validation oversight.· Process design and standardization across the grant’s lifecycle.· Risk, issue, and dependency management.· Post-go-live stabilization and transition to steady-state operations.