Senior Project Manager, Hazina (ERP) Implementation

About the role

WWF International is recruiting a Senior Project Manager for Project Hazina, a two-year initiative to implement a unified, cloud-based Global Finance & Accounting System (GFAS) on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations. The project replaces an ageing, fragmented finance landscape across more than 30 entities, including the Secretariat and its managed Country Offices, and is delivered within the scope, schedule, budget and quality set by project governance.

Key responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery: build and maintain the master plan covering scope, schedule, budget, resourcing, dependencies and stage gates from contract signature through discovery, design, build, test, rollout, stabilisation and decommissioning of legacy systems.
• Manage the implementation partner and vendor estate, run change control and escalate commercial or performance issues through Procurement, Legal and the Executive Sponsor.
• Own the project risk profile, including data migration, integration, scope creep, resource availability, adoption and legacy-platform continuity, and report confidence against milestones.
• Steward the investment: manage the approved budget, track spend and forecast against variance, protect the contingency and report cost position and benefit realisation.
• Lead business change and adoption: communications, training and readiness so that standardised finance processes are understood and used from go-live.
• Safeguard quality: define acceptance criteria, own testing and UAT, and confirm releases meet architecture, security, control and supportability standards.
• Prepare delivery reporting, decision papers and stage-gate submissions for the Systems Projects Oversight Committee and the Executive Team, and manage expectations with Country Directors and Finance Directors.
• Manage the implementation partner day to day, including deliverable acceptance, resource profile, rate card and commercial negotiation.
• Plan data migration, master data definitions, reporting and analytics transitions, and cutover and stabilisation with GTDS.
• Own the change management plan, including impact assessment, communications, training, super-user networks and lessons learned.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Computer Science, Information Systems or a related field; a postgraduate or professional finance qualification is an advantage.
• Minimum 10 years' progressive experience in enterprise business systems delivery, including at least 7 years in project or programme management, of which at least 5 years managing enterprise finance or ERP implementations.
• Demonstrated accountability for at least one full-lifecycle ERP implementation in a multi-entity, multi-currency and multi-country environment.
• Experience managing programmes of comparable financial scale and duration, with a multi-million budget and stage-gate governance reporting to executive or board-level committees.
• Proven experience directing a major implementation partner, systems integrator or consultancy as client-side lead.
• Recognised project management certification (PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent) required; ERP implementation and change-management credentials such as Prosci are strongly preferred.
• Experience in the non-profit, international development or multilateral sector is an advantage; experience of federated or membership-based organisations is highly valued.

Required skills

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations or a comparable ERP platform, enough to challenge design, configuration and estimates.
• Sound understanding of core finance processes (general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, fixed assets, budgeting, project and grant accounting, consolidation, treasury, month-end close) and their controls and audits.
• Authoritative delivery leadership, able to hold a large, multi-party project to plan and recover it when things slip.