Program Manager/Change Management

About Us: Ranked among the largest accounting and consulting firms in the country and consistently recognized as a Great Place to Work, Cherry Bekaert delivers innovative advisory, assurance, and tax services to our clients. We are proud to foster a collaborative environment focused on enabling your career growth and continuous professional development. Our Digital Practice team is looking for a Program Manager/Change Management professional with a background in project management and change management. The Program Manager/Change Management will have the opportunity to work onsite/hybrid from any of our office locations or remotely from within the United States.

Role Summary: As a Program Manager/Change Management Manager within our Digital Practice, you will play a critical role in guiding and managing various projects to enhance our digital presence and improve customer engagement. You will be responsible for developing and following an IV&V Project Plan, leading project leadership and status meetings, verifying project milestones, and ensuring effective communication and risk management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and follow an IV&V Project Plan and procedures to guide IV&V activities and work product development.
• Lead weekly project leadership and status meetings, summarizing IV&V activities planned, completed, and any issues or challenges. Document in semimonthly status reports.
• Verify that the integrator is meeting milestones identified in the ERP roadmap and summarize findings in monthly progress reports.
• Evaluate project reporting plans and actual project reports to verify project status using project metrics.
• Verify milestones and completion dates are planned, monitored, and met.
• Ensure the existence and use of an appropriate project issue tracking mechanism that documents and prioritizes issues, enables communication to proper stakeholders, and tracks issues to closure.
• Develop a Project Risk Management Plan, create a risk register, and track and report on project risks throughout delivery.
• Evaluate risk management plans and procedures to ensure risks are identified, quantified, and that mitigation plans are developed, communicated, implemented, monitored, and complete.
• Develop and use a Change Management Plan, ensuring resistance to change is anticipated, prepared for, and mitigated.
• Create and follow a Communication Plan, ensuring effective communication and work product sharing between all project stakeholders.
• Review schedules to verify adequate time and resources are assigned for planning, development, review, testing, and rework. Track program costs against cost estimates and share findings as needed.

What You Need for This Role:

• Project Management …