Senior Manager, Project Applications (Oracle Projects)

AECOM · Dallas, TX, United States

  • Senior
  • Full-time
  • Posted 2026-09-15
  • Confirmed live on 25 September 2026

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Job description

Job Description
AECOM is seeking a Senior Manager, Project Applications to lead the enterprise applications that support project accounting and project management across our global organization.
Reporting to the Director of Project Administration and Financial Systems, this leader will have ownership of critical applications supporting project costing, billing, revenue and related project financial processes. The role will lead a blended team of internal employees and external delivery partners while working closely with Finance, Project Controls, IT and other business stakeholders.
The successful candidate will combine strong people leadership, deep project-accounting knowledge, enterprise application ownership and the ability to translate complex business needs into practical technology solutions. This person will help define business requirements, evaluate solution options, establish priorities and partner with development, integration, reporting and architecture teams to deliver reliable and scalable solutions.
The role currently oversees approximately 4–5 direct team members while helping lead outsourced delivery resources within a broader global organization.
This position will offer flexibility for hybrid work schedules to include both in-office presence and telecommute/virtual work, to be based from either Houston or Dallas, TX.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop internal team members and outsourced delivery partners, establishing priorities, managing capacity and creating accountability for delivery quality, service levels and results.

• Own and continuously improve enterprise applications supporting project costing, project 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 understand business challenges, clarify requirements and translate needs into actionable functional solutions.

• Evaluate business requirements against application capabilities, identify solution options and tradeoffs, and work with development, integration, reporting and architecture teams to deliver effective solutions.

• Oversee production application support, including incidents, recurring problems, service requests, enhancements, change control, access, audits and corrective actions. These responsibilities are already a significant component of the role in the intake.

• Lead implementations, conversions, migrations and significant 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.

Qualifications
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 demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education

• Deep functional experience supporting and improving enterprise project-accounting systems, with knowledge of processes such as project costing, project billing, revenue, burdening, transfer pricing, or cross-charge. Oracle Projects experience is strongly preferred; candidates with comparable enterprise project-accounting platform experience will also be considered.

• Experience leading a system implementation, conversion, migration, or major rollout through requirements, functional design, configuration, testing, deployment, and post-production stabilization, including the development of workflows, test cases, and implementation documentation.

• Experience owning production application support, including incident and service-request management, recurring-problem resolution, enhancements, change control, access, and audit support.

• Experience leading internal teams, vendors, or outsourced delivery partners, including 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, reporti

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