Senior Manager, Project Applications (Oracle Projects)

About the role

AECOM is seeking a Senior Manager, Project Applications to lead enterprise applications that support project accounting and project management across the global organization. Reporting to the Director of Project Administration and Financial Systems, this leader will own critical applications for project costing, billing, revenue, and related financial processes, and will manage a blended team of internal employees and external delivery partners while collaborating with Finance, Project Controls, IT, and other stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop internal team members and outsourced delivery partners, establishing priorities, managing capacity, and ensuring delivery quality, service levels, and results.
• Own and continuously improve enterprise applications supporting project costing, billing, revenue recognition, burdening, transfer pricing, cross‑charge, and related project‑accounting processes.
• Partner with Finance, Controllership, Billing, Project Controls, and other business stakeholders to clarify requirements and translate needs into actionable functional solutions.
• Evaluate business requirements against application capabilities, identify solution options and trade‑offs, and work with development, integration, reporting, and architecture teams to deliver effective solutions.
• Oversee production application support, including incident management, recurring problems, service requests, enhancements, change control, access, audits, and corrective actions.
• Lead implementations, conversions, migrations, and major application enhancements from requirements and functional design through testing, deployment, and post‑production stabilization.
• Maintain an operational and enhancement roadmap, balance immediate business needs with longer‑term priorities, and contribute to resource, budget, and application modernization planning.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree plus at least 10 years of experience supporting, implementing, and maintaining enterprise project applications, reports, and interfaces, including 3 years of leadership experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Deep functional experience with enterprise project‑accounting systems, including processes such as project costing, billing, revenue, burdening, transfer pricing, or cross‑charge.
• Strong preference for Oracle Projects experience; comparable enterprise project‑accounting platform experience also considered.
• Experience leading a system implementation, conversion, migration, or major rollout through requirements, functional design, configuration, testing, deployment, and post‑production stabilization, including development of workflows, test cases, and documentation.
• Experience owning production application support (incident and service‑request management, recurring‑problem resolution, enhancements, change control, access, audit support).
• Experience leading internal teams, vendors, or outsourced delivery partners with responsibility for delivery quality, capacity, performance, and service‑level compliance.
• Strong executive communication, facilitation, and stakeholder‑management skills with the ability to influence business leaders and drive alignment across cross‑functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Functional experience with Oracle E‑Business Suite Projects or Oracle Fusion Cloud Project Management/PPM, particularly Project Costing, Project Billing, revenue, burdening, transfer pricing, or cross‑charge.
• Prior direct people‑management experience leading and developing enterprise application or functional teams, including coaching, performance management, prioritization, and team development.
• Experience supporting project‑accounting applications across multiple business groups and/or countries within a large, global, project‑based organization.
• Working knowledge of integrations, reporting/BI, data, SQL, application architecture, and software development lifecycle practices, with the ability to partner effectively with developers and technical specialists.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, and disability insurance
• Paid time off and leaves of absence
• Voluntary benefits and employee perks
• Flexible work options and hybrid schedule
• Well‑being resources and employee assistance program
• Business travel insurance
• Service recognition awards
• Retirement savings plan
• Employee stock purchase plan

Compensation

Offered salary range: $160,000 – $200,000 per year, based on education, qualifications, experience, and work location.

Work Schedule

Hybrid work model with a combination of in‑office presence and telecommute/virtual work. Position based in either Houston or Dallas, TX.

Additional Information

Relocation assistance and sponsorship for U.S. work authorization are not available. All newly hired employees must attend an in‑person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location.