Director – Project Management Office & Kantata Owner

CrossCountry Consulting is the transformation partner for the Office of the CFO. As a trusted advisor to Fortune 500 companies, emerging growth market leaders, and private equity sponsors, we combine deep domain expertise with the power of data, AI, and technology to modernize workflows, drive human-centered change, and maximize transaction value. Grounded in our Core Values, we are committed to solving today's most complex challenges while delivering a better experience for our clients, our people, and our communities. When you join CrossCountry, you become part of a team that believes in collaboration, generosity, and the drive to help our clients work smarter, build resiliency, and prepare for the future.

CrossCountry Consulting is the transformation partner for the Office of the CFO. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, the firm delivers finance, accounting, risk, operations, AI, data, and technology advisory services to the Office of the CFO, private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, corporate functional leaders, and the Office of the CIO. We are a PE-backed, high-growth firm with an active acquisition program and an employee-first culture.

Position Overview: CrossCountry has no PMO today. This role is the firm's first dedicated PMO leader and the senior business owner of Kantata, where our delivery process lives: how engagements are scoped, forecast, changed, reported, and closed. We are not seeking enterprise PMO bureaucracy; we want sound delivery practices and a more intuitive, user-centric platform.

Kantata is one of our largest technology investments and connects to Salesforce, Workday, Intacct, Adaptive, and the enterprise data warehouse (EDW). It has replaced a monthly cycle of Excel and Word submissions, but we are not yet getting its full value: the user experience lags, native capabilities sit unused, and Finance has carried business ownership on top of its core work. The focus is optimizing an established platform, not implementing a new one. You will bring a product-owner mindset, project management expertise, command of professional services economics, and the standing to push back on changes that add complexity without proportional value.

Key Activities by Phase

- Pre-Engagement: Pricing and margin modeling, product template setup, standard cost validation, bookings configuration

- Engagement Setup: Project structure, resource profiles, revenue product configuration, GL code assignment

- Active Delivery: Forecast management, fixed fee monitoring, change orders, offshore quality control, PM standards

- Month-End Close: Revenue recognition review, forecast vs. actuals, variance alerts, dashboard sign-off

- Reporting & Governance: Leadership dashboards, practice support tickets, Change Control Board (CCB), data model audits, PM guidance