DescriptionProject Manager (US - Washington DC)
Position summary
Sikich is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Project Manager. This role is contingent upon award of contract
What will you do in this role?
- Experience supporting Federal programs involving legislative, policy, or FOIA coordination
- Provide overall program management, leadership, and oversight across all assigned task areas
- Oversee delivery of financial reporting, audit support, data quality, program operations, and financial management services
- Coordinate with client leadership, CORs, and Government stakeholders to align priorities, schedules, and funding requirements
- Manage staffing, resource allocation, and task prioritization across project teams
- Monitor contract performance, risks, and issues; implement mitigation strategies and corrective actions
- Serve as the primary point of contact for the Government COR
- Ensure compliance with contract requirements, client policies, OMB guidance, and federal standards
- Deliver executive-level reporting, dashboards, metrics, and status briefings
- Support leadership on legislative, policy, and FOIA matters from an oversight and coordination perspective
- Provide leadership, mentoring, and quality assurance across contractor teams
- Maintain integrated master schedules for deliverables, PBCs, quarterly reporting, NFRs, and CAP cycles
- Ensure traceability and documentation standards are maintained for all analytical products, including source systems, extract dates, query/report IDs, and version control
What do you need to succeed in this role?
- On-site in Washington, DC daily
- U.S. Citizen is required
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Public Administration, or Project Management
- CPA or CGFM preferred
- Minimum 10 years of experience leading Federal financial, budget, and audit support projects
- Minimum 10 years of experience serving as an audit liaison supporting external Federal auditors
- Minimum 10 years of experience managing multi-disciplinary teams supporting data quality, audit, and financial management initiatives
In compliance with this state's pay transparency laws, the midpoint of the salary range for this role is $150,000. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location.
In addition, specific skills/experience required are as follows:
- Values driven - You embody and model absolute integrity and servant leadership and you have a bias for action and continuous innovation.
- Uncompromising problem solver - You see opportunities in every business challenge and can develop, articulate and implement solutions.
- Collaboration - You are a relationship builder across all levels of the organization and across all business units.
- Instills trust - You do what you say, without ego, and you follow through on commitments consistently and credibly.
- Impact & influence - You are relentlessly focused on making a difference and can gain support for ideas, proposals and solutions. You get others to act, with or without formal authority, to advance initiatives and objectives.
Sikich Total Rewards
Our team members enjoy expansive benefits ranging from competitive compensation and insurance options to wellness programs and a flexible time off policy, to name only a few. Sikich also takes pride in prioritizing team members' health, total wellbeing and time spent with family, friends and in the pursuit of personal goals, hobbies, and endeavors.
Some examples of our many benefits:
- Sikich maintains a Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy. We encourage every full-time employee, as your role permits, to utilize paid time off (personal time, mental/physical health care, vacation, sick leave, etc.). Waiting for time off to accrue is common at other companies. At Sikich, you do not have to wait for this benefit to kick in. FTO is activated on your first day with our organization.
- Sikich will also recognize paid holidays during the year and strives to permit employees to have time off the last week of the calendar year when client and project work permits.
- Sikich offers a comprehensive wellness program to engage, challenge and empower team members to take responsibility for their wellbeing. Activities can be tracked through our wellness provider to obtain gift cards and other rewards.
We also offer:
- Flexible work arrangements
- Health, dental, vision, life, and accident/death/disability insurance options
- HSA employer contribution
- Nine (9) paid holidays annually.
- A robust paid Parental Bonding Leave program covering birth, adoption, and foster children.
- 401(k) with employer contributions
- CPA bonus with four (4) paid exam days & four (4) paid study days.
- Tuition reimbursement
- Generous employee referral bonus program
- Client referral bonus program
- Pet insurance
- FORCE - Sikich community volunteer program enabling each team member to use up to four hours of paid time annually to volunteer and make a difference in their local communities.
Official correspondence will come from a Sikich.com email address and applicants/candidates are invited to contact us directly to verify communications.
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