Overview

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Job Description:

 

The Senior Manager, Practice Management - Assurance (PMT) provides support to the service line for optimizing and operationalizing processes, tools, and policies; running the business with efficiency and accountability; and enabling change adoption. The Senior Manager, PMT applies expertise in best practice program/project and organizational change management with an operational process lens to drive the successful execution of projects and operationalization of solutions in alignment with firm-wide and service line strategies – turning strategic vision into operational reality.

This role reports to the Strategic Execution Lead, Assurance and Risk Advisory, and collaborates heavily with our firm’s Enterprise Solutions & Operations (ESO) functions to meet operations and service line needs. Building alignment and driving continuous improvement across the practice is also a key aspect of this role.

Responsibilities:

• Lead mid- to high-complexity initiatives or workstreams including planning and progressing project activities, contributing subject-matter expertise in solutioning, and “connecting the dots” to drive integration, executing independently in alignment with Strategic Execution Lead (SEL), Firmwide Operations and service line leadership.
• Develop and lead execution of organizational change management engagement and equipping plans within service line, collaborating with leaders to build sponsorship, align with firm-wide and service line goals, and drive adoption through communications and engagement adapted to need.
• Serve as a proxy for the SEL in representing and contributing subject-matter expertise for the service line and/or operations in firmwide initiatives.
• Liaison and support continuous improvement of practice management processes and tools in partnership with appropriate functional leads; scope may include areas, such as financial management, resource management, operational reporting, policies and procedures, quality and control processes execution, business development pipeline management, learning and workforce management.
• Engage with service line leaders and other key stakeholders to lead discussions and prepare analyses and recommendations on business topics related to practice performance, issues and risk management, technologies and automation, and operational improvement.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex operational escalations impacting the service line leadership