Direct Client Position :: Senior Business Project Manager – ERP Implementation // Trenton, NJ (Hybrid) // Long term contract

[Sai kumar Opsaway]

Hi,

Position: Senior Business Project Manager – ERP Implementation

Location:  Trenton, NJ (Hybrid)

Work Mode: Hybrid (3 days onsite / 2 days remote)

Duration: Long term contract

Interview Type: In Person

Short Description:
The Senior Business PM leads Client’s 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.

Core Responsibilities

• Project Leadership & Governance: Serve as the central point of coordination between leadership, OIT, OMB, vendors, and the centralized State NJHIVE team. 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.

Skill	Required / Desired	Req Experience in Years	Years of Exp do you have?	Last Used
Cross-Functional PM / BA Hybrid Experience	Required	8
Business Process Mapping & Tools	Required	8
Change Management & Communication Planning	Required	8
Large-Scale ERP / Financial System Implementations (Atleast 2 implementations)	Required	6
LinkedIn Profile	Required
Public Sector / Government Finance Experience	Highly desired	5
Data Conversion & Report Auditing	Highly desired	5
Low-Code Workflow Automation Experience	Highly desired	3
PMP Certification	Highly desired
CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional), or Prosci Certified Change Manager Certification	Highly desired