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 Professional (PMP) certification, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification, or Change Management Specialist certification preferred
• Strong project management and change management skills.
• Excellent communication and leadership abilities.
• Ability to work collaboratively with various departments and stakeholders.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or related field preferred
• 5+ years of experience working in similar capacity in professional services

What You Can Expect from Us:

• Our shared values that foster inclusion and belonging, including uncompromising integrity, collaboration, trust, and mutual respect.
• The opportunity to innovate and do work that motivates and engages you.
• A collaborative environment focused on enabling you to further your career growth and continuous professional development.
• Competitive compensation and a total rewards package that focuses on all aspects of your wellbeing.
• Flexibility to do impactful work and the time to enjoy your life outside of work.
• Opportunities to connect and learn from professionals from different backgrounds and with different cultures.

About Cherry Bekaert

Cherry Bekaert, ranked among the largest assurance, tax and advisory firms in the U.S., serves clients across industries in all 50 U.S. states and internationally. “Cherry Bekaert” is the brand name under which Cherry Bekaert LLP and Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC, independently owned entities, provide professional services in an alternative practice structure in accordance with applicable professional standards. Cherry Bekaert LLP is a licensed CPA firm that provides attest services, and Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC and its subsidiary entities provide business advisory and non-attest services spanning the areas of transaction advisory, risk and accounting advisory, digital solutions, cybersecurity, tax, benefits consulting, and wealth management. For more details, visit cbh.com/disclosure.

Cherry Bekaert cares about our people. We offer competitive compensation packages based on performance that recognize the value our people bring to our clients and our Firm. The salary range for this position is $090,00 to $205,000. Individual salaries within this range are determined by a variety of factors including but not limited to the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, education, knowledge, skills, and geographic location. In addition, we offer a comprehensive, high-quality benefits program which includes annual bonus, medical, dental, and vision care; disability and life insurance; generous Paid Time Off; retirement plans; Paid Care Leave; and other programs that are dedicated to enhancing your personal and work life and providing you and your family with a measure of financial protection. 

Cherry Bekaert provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.  

This role is expected to accept applications for at least five calendar days.

Candidates must demonstrate eligibility to work in the United States. Cherry Bekaert will not provide work sponsorship for this position. 

Cherry Bekaert LLP and Cherry Bekaert Advisory LLC are members of Allinial Global, an accountancy and business advisory global association. Visit us at cbh.com/careers and follow us on LinkedIn, Glassdoor, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

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