Senior Project Manager, Hazina (ERP) Implementation - WWF International

Responsibilities

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of the Hazina project, a global implementation of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations. They will manage the project scope, budget, schedule, and vendor relationships while leading business change and ensuring operational readiness across multiple international entities.

Requirements

Candidates must have at least 10 years of experience in enterprise business systems, with a minimum of 5 years specifically managing ERP implementations. A bachelor's degree is required, and professional project management certifications such as PMP or PRINCE2 are mandatory.

Skills

• Project Management
• ERP Implementation
• Microsoft Dynamics 365
• Finance Systems
• Change Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Budget Management
• Risk Mitigation
• Data Migration
• Vendor Management
• Strategic Planning
• Business Process Improvement
• Governance
• Financial Reporting
• Leadership

About this role

Want to make a positive difference to the future of people and our one shared home, the Earth? Working at WWF could be your opportunity of a lifetime.

All around the world, people are waking up to the devastating impacts of climate change and nature loss. The situation today is worse than the darkest predictions of just ten years ago, pushing billions of people to the edge and threatening lives and livelihoods. At WWF, we are facing our biggest crisis – and our biggest ever opportunity – to create a better future for people and nature. With over 60 years of experience and an active presence in more than 100 countries, we work to achieve both on-the-ground and global policy action, from protecting and restoring species and their habitats, to transforming markets and policies toward sustainability.

Our people come from hugely diverse backgrounds and with a variety of expertise, ranging from conservation science and advocacy to HR and finance. We welcome applications from anyone who believes they can help us tackle this enormous global challenge and drive the urgent conservation impact needed to restore our planet.

What We Do
We are an independent conservation organization, striving to sustain the natural world for the benefit of people and the ecosystem. From individuals and communities to businesses and governments, we are part of a growing global movement calling for bolder action on climate and nature, demanding that world leaders set nature on the path to recovery by 2030. WWF works to address the most dominant drivers of nature loss through system-wide changes in how food and energy are produced and consumed, and in how financial systems are structured. By implementing change in every country, we aim to drive visible and positive impacts on the ground, helping to restore nature in the most critical places around the world, from the Amazon to the Coral Triangle.

Engaging everyone means addressing the barriers to participation faced by some groups in society, including local communities. Conservation will only be sustainable if it is owned by, and benefits, local people. That’s why Indigenous Peoples and local communities must be at the centre of action on climate and nature. WWF is committed to using its resources and global network to support these communities in creating together the most effective solutions where they live.

Humanity is still in time, we have a clear pathway to solve this crisis. At WWF, we call on everyone to join the global movement, change how we live, and take action now.
WWF International global recruitment team are exclusively managing this vacancy. We kindly ask that you do not contact the local office on this position.
As Senior Project Manager – Hazina Implementation, you hold day-to-day delivery accountability for Project Hazina, a strategic initiative to implement a unified, cloud-based Global Finance & Accounting System (GFAS) on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations. The goal of the project is to replace an ageing, fragmented finance systems landscape across more than 30 entities, including the Secretariat and its managed Country Offices. The project will be delivered over approximately two years.
You are accountable for delivering the project within the scope, schedule, budget and quality set by the project governance.
MISSION OF THE DEPARTMENT
To align and harmonise technology, digital and data capabilities across the WWF Network to enable conservation impact at scale while safeguarding the organisation and the people we work with, through fit for purpose solutions that are device and hardware agnostic, mobile functional, built on integrated, secure and scalable cloud enabled technology platforms and are consistently delivered and supported anytime anywhere.
MAJOR FUNCTIONS
Own end-to-end delivery of the Hazina implementation: build and maintain the master plan covering scope, schedule, budget, resourcing, dependencies and stage gates from contract signature through discovery, design, build, test, rollout, stabilisation and decommissioning of legacy systems.
Manage the implementation partner and the wider vendor estate: hold the implementation partner to contracted scope, deliverables, quality and commercials; run change control; and escalate commercial or performance issues through Procurement, Legal and the Executive Sponsor.
Own the project risk profile: identify, quantify and actively mitigate delivery risk — data migration, integration, scope creep, resource availability, adoption and legacy-platform continuity — and give governance bodies an honest view of confidence against milestones.
Steward the investment: manage the approved budget, track spend and forecast against variance, protect the contingency, and report cost position and benefit realisation to the Business Owner, SPOC, the other relevant governance bodies.
Lead business change and adoption: direct the change, communications, training and readiness effort across the Secretariat and Country Offices so that standardised finance processes are understood, accepted and used from go-live, and so that benefits are realised rather than assumed.
Safeguard quality and operational readiness: define acceptance criteria, own the testing and UAT regime, and confirm with Finance, GTDS and Cybersecurity that each release meets architecture, security, control and supportability standards before it is recommended for go-live.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Project planning and delivery management
Develop, own and maintain the integrated Hazina delivery plan — scope, schedule, budget, resources, dependencies, assumptions and stage gates — covering discovery, design, build, configuration, data migration, integration, testing, training, rollout, stabilisation and legacy decommissioning.
Establish the programme team and operating rhythm: define roles, responsibilities and the delivery RACI across WWF and the implementation partner so that accountability for the plan, the budget and the go-li...

About WWF International

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