Project Lead (Principal Consultant)

Genesis Consulting has an immediate opportunity for an experienced, forward thinking Project Lead with a passion for growth and business transformation. Join our team and utilize leading technology to configure, develop, deliver and support applications for our clients while leveraging concepts of Lean, Agile, Kanban and SAFe. Our clients are some of the world s leading companies and the candidate will be a part of challenging projects to build and support technical solutions for their needs.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The consultant will support the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) PALM System Transition (FPST) Program is the Department s multi-year effort to transform financial related business processes to enable the adoption of the Florida PALM Standardized Business Process Models, transition to the Florida PALM Chart of Accounts, and modify existing computing assets to complete the FDOT transition to the Florida PALM PeopleSoft solution. The FPST Program will also ensure that over 1,000 Florida PALM-impacted computing assets are successfully transitioned from legacy Florida Accounting Information Resource (FLAIR) interfaces to modernized Florida PALM interfaces. The Florida PALM-impacted computing assets are vital to the daily financial operations of the department in the development and delivery of the approximately $50 billion of future commitments for the Five-Year Work Program. Duties and responsibilities include but may not be limited to:

• Providing executive-level consultation services to FDOT.
  
• Providing senior-level interface with FDOT Agency Liaisons and Project Management Liaisons and managing daily operations.
  
• Ensuring the timely performance and completion of all obligations under the Purchase Order.
  
• Formulating organizational strategy and directing major FPST strategic direction.
  
• Ensuring that goals and objectives are accomplished within budgetary parameters.
  
• Formulating and enforcing work standards.
  
• Participating in the design phase of tasks and ensuring their successful execution.
  
• Managing the Scope of Services and support FDOT staff with project documentation, including project administration, coordination, invoicing, etc.
  
• Meeting with the Department to begin implementation of services as directed. Keep meeting minutes and submit them to the contract manager within five business days following the meeting
  
• Conducting meetings to collect and document requirements. Keep meeting minutes and submit them to the contract manager within five business days following the meeting.
  
• Developing and submit a Project Management Plan, as agreed to by the Department, to the contract manager within twenty business days of completion of the requirement meetings conducted with the Department.
  
• Providing weekly status reports to the Department per the Project Management Plan.
  
• Providing a monthly summary documenting the activities performed during the period.
  
• Developing progress status report template
  
• Submitting bi-weekly progress status reports and lead bi-weekly team meetings/updates
  
• Developing invoice template and submit monthly
  
• Tabulating action items
  
• Developing an estimate internal staff time and resource requirements to support the project
  

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications/Experience:

• Minimum of ten (10) years experience in duties associated with the Principal Consultant position
  
• Experience in understanding technological trends and uses this knowledge to bring solutions to business units supported to enhance the enterprise s competitive edge
  
• Experience in verbal and written communications to convey progress and results of analysis
  
• Skilled in the use of ERP business solutions and configuration of multiple ERP modules, such as Oracle PeopleSoft s financial management software.
  
• Knowledge of ERP financial related modules and interfacing methodologies.
  
• Experience working on accounting and financial computing applications and monitoring complex interfaces with external systems.
  
• Expertise in information technology consulting with experience in planning, evaluations and/or executing and monitoring large budget management, accounting, and financial statement reporting applications.
  
• Experience managing enterprise level projects.
  
• Advance skills in the transformation of as-is business processes and revision of established data management procedures.
  
• Experience with systems alignment, consolidation, and remediation of legacy computing assets.
  
• Implementation of an ERP budget management, accounting, and financial statement reporting solution for a subordinate agency and interfacing to a statewide accounting and financial reporting system.
  
• Knowledge of the PeopleSoft financial modules and their use.
  
• Experience conducting studies, analyses, and creating work products and reports relating to Agency business programs or initiatives.
  

Minimum Education:

• Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or another related field.
  

Required Certifications:

• None required
  

Other:

• US Citizenship preferred. Must be a Green Card holder at minimum.
  
• Candidate must be able to pass a Level II background check including fingerprinting.
  
• All work is performed on-site in Tallahassee, FL.