Application Implementation Project Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Direct the organization’s internal initiatives for the deployment of NetSuite

• Manage the internal project timeline and align activities and dependencies across various departments

• Oversee the project budget and schedule

• Deliver transparent reports on progress, risks, challenges, and decisions

• Identify potential risks, assist in resolving project issues, and escalate matters that need leadership intervention

• Create and sustain the internal implementation work plan alongside the project manager from the implementation partner

• Organize internal involvement in gathering requirements, conducting process walkthroughs, reviewing configurations, validating activities, and making business decisions

• Keep records of project governance, which include schedules, budgets, risk and issue logs, decision logs, defect logs, change request logs, action trackers, testing dashboards, and status reports

• Document and monitor business, technical, scope, configuration, data, and implementation decisions

• Coordinate both internal and third-party resources for integrations, data transfers, licensing, access, security, privacy, and other technical dependencies

• Supervise training, process documentation, end-user resources, communications, change-management efforts, and operational readiness

• Manage cutover and go-live readiness tasks, including approvals, data validation, testing sign-offs, user preparation, support arrangements, rollback considerations, and contingency plans

• Assist in the transition from implementation to operational ownership, including documentation, issue management, post-go-live stabilization, support arrangements, and handover

• Review risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, overdue decisions, resource constraints, quality concerns, and possible impacts on scope, schedule, or budget

• Track implementation partner performance and deliverables and facilitate the resolution of discrepancies

• Provide regular updates on the project to sponsors and stakeholders

• Engage in Parkinson Canada’s EOS operating framework, which includes meeting schedules, quarterly priorities, and defined role responsibilities

• Collaborate with business leaders, project team members, subject-matter experts, Finance, Operations, IT, and other departments

• Foster communication between internal stakeholders and the implementation partner

• Promote organizational adoption and sustained system ownership

⛳️ Requirements

• Post-secondary qualifications in business administration, finance, information systems, project management, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience

• Proven experience in managing system implementations, ERP, finance systems, or enterprise application projects

• Experience in coordinating cross-functional project teams, external implementation partners, and business subject-matter experts

• Strong grasp of project governance, risk and issue management, testing coordination, data migration, change management, and go-live readiness

• Working knowledge of essential finance and accounting processes, including general ledger, AP/AR, month-end close, reconciliation, financial reporting, and internal controls

• Experience with reporting, integrations, security, privacy, or operational requirements

• Project management certification or formal project management training is viewed as an asset

• Practical experience with NetSuite or a similar ERP system is highly preferred

• Familiarity with chart of accounts, multi-entity/subsidiary structures, financial reporting, saved searches, and system configuration or customization

• Experience managing external vendors and implementation partners against a statement of work, including deliverable acceptance and change orders

• Experience overseeing project budgets, forecasting, tracking actuals, monitoring burn rate, managing variances, and re-forecasting

• Experience leading organizational change management and user adoption for system implementations

• Formal change-management certification such as Prosci/ADKAR is considered advantageous

• Business analysis and process-mapping skills

• Proficient with project and portfolio management tools like MS Project, Smartsheet, Jira, or Asana

• Strong skills in Microsoft Excel

• Familiarity with waterfall, agile, or hybrid project delivery methodologies applied to phased ERP implementations

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work opportunity from anywhere in Canada

• Occasional travel for team meetings and events, usually one or two times per year

• Salary growth based on skills, experience, and role complexity

• Inclusive and accessible workplace

• Fair employment opportunities

• Work environment free from discrimination and harassment

• Accommodations available for applicants with disabilities