eNcloud Services Immediate requirement
Title: Senior Project Manager – PowerPlan Implementation (Utility Industry)
Location: Houston, TX (Onsite)
C2C/W2
*Key Responsibilities:*
* Lead end-to-end implementation of the PowerPlan platform for a large utility organization, including planning, execution, governance, deployment, and stabilization activities.
* Manage complex enterprise transformation initiatives involving utility finance, asset accounting, capital projects, tax, regulatory reporting, and depreciation processes.
* Coordinate cross-functional teams including business stakeholders, PowerPlan vendor resources, system integrators, SAP/ERP teams, infrastructure, database, security, and application support teams.
* Drive overall program governance including project plans, milestones, RAID management, executive reporting, budget tracking, and steering committee communications.
* Lead requirements gathering, solution workshops, business process alignment, and integration planning activities with utility finance and accounting teams.
* Oversee implementation activities related to PowerPlan integrations with enterprise systems such as SAP, Oracle databases, asset management, data warehouse, and reporting platforms.
* Ensure successful execution of data migration, testing, cutover, hypercare, and transition-to-support activities.
* Manage vendor relationships and coordinate deliverables across PowerPlan, implementation partners, infrastructure providers, and third-party consulting organizations.
* Establish and enforce project governance standards, change management processes, risk mitigation strategies, and quality assurance procedures.
* Collaborate with cybersecurity, infrastructure, and cloud teams to ensure compliance, resiliency, disaster recovery, and operational readiness requirements are incorporated into the implementation.
* Drive executive-level communication and provide regular status updates, issue escalation, dependency tracking, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership.
* Support organizational change management, user adoption, training coordination, and operational readiness activities to ensure successful business transition.
*Required Qualifications:*
* At least 12+ years of enterprise IT project/program management experience with at least 5+ years leading large-scale ERP, utility finance, or PowerPlan implementations.
* Preferably, the candidate should have prior experience leading implementation of PowerPlan or similar enterprise financial/accounting SaaS platforms within utility or asset-intensive organizations. Strong experience managing enterprise utility industry projects involving regulatory accounting, fixed assets, capital project accounting, tax, and financial systems modernization.
* Proven experience managing complex integrations across SAP, Oracle, enterprise data platforms, cloud environments, and third-party applications.
* Demonstrated expertise leading large cross-functional teams, system integrators, vendors, and executive stakeholder engagements within utility or energy organizations.
* Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile, Waterfall, hybrid delivery methodologies, enterprise testing, cutover planning, and post-go-live stabilization processes.
* Excellent executive communication, leadership, governance, risk management, budgeting, and vendor management skills.
*Preferred Certifications:*
* PMP (Project Management Professional) – Mandatory
* Agile / Scrum Certification (Preferred)
* ITIL Certification (Preferred)
* SAP or ERP Program Management certifications (Preferred)
* Utility industry or financial systems implementation experience strongly preferred
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