Project Manager, Enterprise System Integrations

Wilson Elser is a leading defense litigation law firm with more than 1400 attorneys in 46 offices throughout the United States. Founded in 1978, we rank among the top 100 law firms identified by The American Lawyer and 36 in the National Law Journal’s survey of the nation’s largest law firms. 

The Position

This position is a highly collaborative role that works closely with stakeholders, vendor partners, end-users, and functional/technical team members to deliver modern and optimized solutions to the Wilson Elser Finance and Revenue teams. Initiatives include managing the integrations of a new enterprise financial system and other third party and in-house developed products. It is essential that this role understands the dependencies, issues, and requirements necessary to make integrations with multiple systems successful. It is important that this project managers has experience coordinating with multiple teams and areas of technology and the business to get complicated schemas executed. The ideal candidate understands the role APIs and enterprise data architecture play in these types of initiatives and can hold teams accountable for meeting expectations and delivery deadlines.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the successful implementation of various business and technology team requirements, processes, and technically refined business solutions.
• Liaise between multiple third-party and internal technical teams and project managers while ensuring business requirements and priorities are being met, focused on integrating several new systems.
• Ensure that a dedicated internal technical team can successfully execute projects while effectively communicating project health across all cross-functional teams.
• Effectively facilitate the removal of all blockers impeding the velocity of the project lifecycle.
• Spearhead project status reports, utilizing refined project management techniques aligned with our Enterprise PMO, that effectively keep the PMO and the Executive team informed.
• Efficiently organize and ensure mandatory timelines are met while retaining the flexibility to adapt based on business needs and requirements.
• Facilitate the training and end-user support activities on new systems and workflows.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of hands-on project management experience with:
  • Enterprise-level financial system data conversions, integrations, and deployments is required.
  • Experience with the Aderant and BigHand product suite, a big plus.
  • Systems specific to the legal industry, a plus.
  • Waterfall and Agile methodologies (including SAFe and SCRUM).
• Effective communication skills within team members and executive leadership.
• Managing change and driving a change mindset with business stakeholders.
• Exceptional time management and organizational skills.
• Understanding of enterprise-level financial and revenue team user journeys and workflows.
• Ability to prioritize tasks, drive deadlines, and ensure team focus.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant major or equivalent work experience.

Why Should You Apply? 

• Benefits: Outstanding benefits package, including 401k match and generous PTO plan
• Career Growth: Ample opportunities for professional development and advancement
• Employee Perks: Access to corporate discount plans and other benefits