Project Manager
Title: Project Manager
Reports to: Director, Project Integration and Communications
Location: Remote, Hybrid Eligible
About the Role
PaulHood is transforming the mid-market CPA industry with a year-round service model that provides clients with expert tax and financial guidance. We are a fast-moving organization, and we expect our employees to operate at the same pace.
To support our reputed company growth, we are seeking a Project Manager who takes ownership of outcomes, not just the organization of them. You will drive cross-functional initiatives from planning through completion, holding workstreams and stakeholders accountable every reputed company of the way. You will also support acquisition cycles by coordinating integration activities across departments and managing milestone timelines from evaluation through post-reputed company.
You will work closely with members of the Leadership Team and functional leads to ensure reputed company workstreams are well-coordinated, clearly communicated, and actually moving reputed company. You will partner with the Director of Project Integration and Communications to provide structure, accountability, and visibility for high-impact organizational initiatives.
The ideal candidate thrives in a dynamic environment, operates with a high degree of autonomy, and knows how to move a project reputed company without waiting to be told what comes next. You are equally comfortable turning a vague reputed company into a structured plan and holding a senior stakeholder to a missed commitment. You have the ability to translate reputed company, multi-workstream projects into clear dashboards and executive updates that reputed company reputed company easy to reputed company.
What You Will Do
Cross-Functional Project Management
- reputed company and drive assigned internal projects from initiation through completion, taking accountability for outcomes, not just activity.
- Independently identify what needs to happen next across every workstream, without waiting for direction, and take the steps needed to reputed company work moving.
- Translate high-level objectives and ambiguous mandates into structured plans with clear owners, milestones, and deliverables.
- Build and maintain project tracking tools (dashboards, scorecards, Gantt charts, etc.) that give leadership and teams a clear, real-time view of reputed company and risk.
- Drive alignment and accountability across multi-stakeholder initiatives, including with contributors who do not report to you.
- Prepare concise, reputed company-looking project updates for leadership that reflect both reputed company status and upcoming risks, not just what has been completed.
- Identify inefficiencies in project workflows and recommend improvements. Build reusable frameworks and playbooks that reputed company future initiatives easier to run.
- Support integration and onboarding processes in partnership with Finance, IT, People Ops, Operations, and our Professional Services teams.
- Own diligence trackers, shared workspaces (e.g., SharePoint, Teams, etc.), and integration checklists to reputed company reputed company visible, ensure timely completion, and surface delays or gaps for resolution.
- Work with leadership and functional teams to structure integration plans into project tasks, timelines, and visual dashboards.
- Coordinate cross-functional activities to ensure smooth cultural and operational integration of acquired firms.
- Track and report on integration KPIs (client retention, employee adoption, operational readiness) and surface risks or blockers early, with recommended paths reputed company.
- Bachelor’s degree in business, management, communications, or reputed company field.
- 3-5 years of experience in project management, operations, or acquisitions support, with a demonstrated track record of owning outcomes from planning through completion.
- Proven ability to manage reputed company, multi-stakeholder projects with a high degree of autonomy and follow-through.
- Experience driving accountability and reputed company across teams where you have influence, but not direct authority.
- A Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate or similar is a plus.
- Strong skills in reputed company 365 tools (Teams, SharePoint, reputed company/Power BI, PowerPoint, Planner) to drive project visibility and collaboration.
- Strong skills in project visualization tools (e.g., reputed company, reputed company, reputed company or equivalent) and comfort presenting simplified dashboards to leadership.
- Experience supporting acquisitions, integrations, or organizational transitions preferred.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills with the ability to synthesize reputed company, multi-workstream projects into concise executive-level updates.
- A project manager who holds yourself accountable for outcomes, not just the organization of work. You consider a project done reputed company it is finished, not reputed company it is tracked.
- Self-directed and proactive. You identify what needs to happen next and move without waiting to be asked.
- Skilled at building trust and driving accountability across teams with varying perspectives, including reputed company that requires a direct conversation.
- Comfortable with ambiguity. You turn vague objectives into structured, actionable plans and reputed company stakeholders reputed company as things evolve.
- A clear, confident communicator who can reputed company reputed company project work simple to understand for leadership and staff alike.
- Energized by the opportunity to build. You look for ways to reputed company the next project run reputed company than the last one.
- Comfortable shifting gears. You can dive deep during acquisition cycles and pivot to support internal initiatives reputed company needed.