Senior Manager, Oracle PPM & Project Accounting Applications

AECOM is seeking a Senior Manager, Oracle PPM & Project Accounting Applications to lead the enterprise applications that support project costing, billing, revenue recognition, and project financial management across our global business.

Reporting to the Director of Project Administration and Financial Systems, this role will own the reliability, support, enhancement roadmap, and continued modernization of Oracle Projects / Oracle PPM, related reports and interfaces, and custom project-management applications.

This is a hands-on functional leadership role for someone who combines deep project-accounting systems expertise with implementation experience, production application ownership, and team leadership. You will lead approximately 4–5 internal team members while helping oversee external delivery partners and working closely with Finance, Project Controls, IT, and business leaders across AECOM

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

• Provide functional leadership and ownership for Oracle Projects / Oracle PPM and related project-accounting processes, including Project Costing, Project Billing, Revenue Generation, AutoAccounting, Burdening, Transfer Pricing, Cross-Charge, and related project financial processes.
• Lead, coach, and develop internal team members while managing priorities, capacity, delivery quality, and performance across internal and outsourced resources.
• Own the stability, security, performance, and supportability of project applications, including incidents, recurring problems, service requests, enhancements, change control, access requests, audits, and corrective actions.
• Lead implementations, conversions, migrations, major enhancements, and system rollouts from requirements and solution design through configuration, testing, deployment, go-live, and post-production stabilization.
• Translate Finance, Project Controls, Billing, and business requirements into functional specifications, workflows, configurations, test cases, and actionable technical solutions.
• Partner with technical teams on integrations, reporting, data, application architecture, and scalable enterprise solutions.
• Maintain a 12-month application roadmap and contribute to longer-term modernization, architecture, resource, and budget planning.
• Identify opportunities to simplify processes, eliminate recurring production issues, improve system performance, and enhance the user experience.
• Support project applications used across multiple business groups, countries, and localizations.
• Manage delivery partners and vendors, including service levels, quality, commitments, and accountability.

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

• Hands-on functional experience with Oracle E-Business Suite Projects or Oracle Fusion Cloud Project Management/PPM, including Project Costing and Project Billing.
• Experience supporting enterprise applications across multiple business groups and country-specific localizations within a large, global, project-based organization.
• Working knowledge of SQL, databases, integrations, enterprise reporting or BI tools, application architecture, and software development lifecycle methodologies; experience with Informatica, resource forecasting, budget planning, and long-range application roadmaps is a plus.

• Relocation assistance is not available for this position
• Sponsorship for US work authorization is not available for this position, now or in the future.

At AECOM, we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment, all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

About AECOM

AECOM is proud to offer comprehensive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absences, voluntary benefits, perks, flexible work options, well-being resources, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan.

AECOM is the global infrastructure leader, committed to delivering a better world. As a trusted professional services firm powered by deep technical abilities, we solve our clients’ complex challenges in water, environment, energy, transportation and buildings. Our teams partner with public- and private-sector clients to create innovative, sustainable and resilient solutions throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm that had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. Learn more at aecom.com.

What makes AECOM a great place to work

You will be part of a global team that champions your growth and career ambitions. Work on groundbreaking projects - both in your local community and on a global scale - that are transforming our industry and shaping the future. With cutting-edge technology and a network of experts, you’ll have the resources to make a real impact. Our award-winning training and development programs are designed to expand your technical expertise and leadership skills, helping you build the career you’ve always envisioned. Here, you’ll find a welcoming workplace built on respect, collaboration and community—where you have the freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in your potential and are here to help you achieve it. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.