Senior IT Project Manager - Group Finance ERP Upgrade

Quick Facts

• Location: Warsaw, Poland
• Language: English

Description

The purpose of this position is to lead and govern a complex, large-scale global ERP upgrade, migrating from Microsoft Dynamics NAV to Business Central and rolling it out across more than 20 countries, with a Finance-only scope maintained under Business Central. The role is accountable for end-to-end delivery, robust programme governance, executive stakeholder alignment, and effective decision-making across the full project lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of the global ERP transformation from mobilisation and planning through migration, deployment, transition, and closure.
• Govern the migration from Microsoft Dynamics NAV to Business Central and coordinate rollout across more than 20 countries.
• Establish and manage programme governance (steering committees, reporting structures, decision protocols, quality controls, escalation paths).
• Own and control programme scope, roadmap, milestones, budget, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery quality.
• Engage, influence, and align senior executives, country leadership, Finance, Technology, Operations, and programme sponsors.
• Coordinate global and regional teams, implementation partners, vendors, and cross-functional workstreams for integrated delivery.
• Oversee country readiness, business process alignment, data migration, testing, cutover, deployment, stabilisation, and transition to operations.
• Balance global standardisation with justified local, regulatory, and business requirements.
• Provide executive reporting, evidence-based recommendations, and timely escalation of critical decisions and delivery risks.
• Drive change management, business readiness, stakeholder communication, adoption, and benefits realisation across the programme.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience leading complex, large-scale IT transformation projects or programmes.
• Proven track record delivering global ERP implementations, upgrades, or major platform transformations in multinational organisations.
• Extensive, hands-on Project/Programme Management experience delivering a Microsoft Dynamics NAV to Business Central upgrade, or a comparable Microsoft ERP-class transformation.
• General working knowledge of Finance-led business processes.
• Extensive experience establishing and operating programme governance, including executive steering forums.
• Proven ability to influence, challenge, and align difficult stakeholders at senior executive level.
• Demonstrated success managing multi-country deployments, ideally across 20 or more countries.
• Experience managing system integrators, external vendors, contracts, budgets, and cross-functional delivery teams.
• Strong knowledge of risk, issue, dependency, quality, change, and benefits management.
• Project or programme management certification preferred (PMP, PRINCE2, or PgMP).

Benefits

• Career development and training in a supportive culture focused on delivery excellence and measurable business outcomes.