Overview
The Programme Manager (Yardi) will oversee the implementation of Yardi Voyager 8 for a leading international real estate investment company undergoing significant digital transformation. This role will serve as a key liaison among senior finance leadership, Yardi, external accounting providers, and internal finance teams, ensuring that various property management and investment accounting workstreams are effectively executed in accordance with a predefined go-live schedule.
Responsibilities
- Take overall ownership of the Yardi Voyager 8 implementation through to go-live.
- Establish and manage the programme plan, critical path, milestones, risks and dependencies.
- Coordinate parallel property management and investment accounting workstreams.
- Act as the primary intermediary between Yardi, outsourced service providers and internal finance stakeholders.
- Hold external providers accountable for deliverables and proactively resolve gaps between individual workstreams.
- Oversee migration of financial data from the existing ERP/accounting environment into Yardi.
- Manage the overall data-validation process, working with internal finance and property SMEs.
- Define and manage UAT, cutover, go/no-go and go-live acceptance.
Requirements
- Strong Yardi Voyager implementation experience, ideally including Voyager 8.
- Proven delivery of at least one or two end-to-end Yardi implementations.
- Hands-on implementation capability rather than purely programme governance experience.
- Strong understanding of property accounting and finance-system implementation.
- Financial data migration, mapping and validation experience.
- Experience managing UAT, cutover, go/no-go and production go-live processes.
- Strong track record managing multiple third-party providers and complex stakeholder groups.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to bridge finance, property and technology.