Functional Project Manager – Accounting Migration

Pennylane

Expert comptable en contact direct avec les cabinets pour les accompagner dans leur migration. Travaillant avec une équipe pour assurer la configuration et la satisfaction des besoins métiers.

Posted 7/23/2026full-timeRemote • 🇫🇷 FranceMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in migration project management, functional requirements analysis, and cross-functional collaboration. Proficient in configuring solutions to meet business needs and ensuring effective communication between technical and business stakeholders.

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Migration Project ManagementFunctional Requirements AnalysisBusiness Process ConfigurationClient Relationship SkillsPost-Migration Support

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Hard Skills

Functional TestingProcess AutomationDocumentation WritingUser Story DevelopmentBusiness Needs Analysis

Soft Skills

Service MindsetEffective CommunicationAdaptabilityTeam CollaborationProactivity

Tools & Technologies

Pennylane

Certifications & Qualifications

Accounting Education (IUT GEA, BTS CGO, DCG, DSCG, Master's in CCA)

Industry Keywords

Accounting Firm ExperienceMigration ExperienceCross-Team CollaborationContinuous ImprovementBusiness Monitoring

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Audit and analysis of functional requirements
Plan, prepare and lead meetings with firms — from kick-off to lessons learned (Retex), including briefings, scoping and debriefs
Analyze business needs based on field feedback and migration experience
Write documentation and user stories to facilitate other teams' understanding
Run workshops and webinars — some focused on business use cases, others cross-functional
Migration project management
Ensure migrations follow a clear, documented process for all stakeholders (internal and external)
Adapt the approach according to circumstances while ensuring existing processes are respected to guarantee genuine cross-team collaboration
Communicate regularly about alignment between technical solutions and business needs
Act as the information relay to PSS Back, responsible for integration, fixes and validation
Business preparation and configuration
Contribute to configuring Pennylane to fit firms' existing business processes
Participate in functional testing to validate the solution meets business requirements before migration
Post-migration support and acceptance testing
Collaborate with PSS Back teams on debugging and resolving business issues after migration
Perform intermediate and final functional tests to validate solutions
Contribute to post-migration reports and propose areas for improvement
Process automation and optimization
Identify and prioritize automation and optimization needs
Help implement them through documentation, feedback or concrete proposals
Monitor business satisfaction after each change
Monitoring, R&D and continuous improvement
Maintain product and business monitoring to ensure feature relevance
Propose enhancements to existing features and report gaps or malfunctions
Help translate needs into actionable solutions, for internal and external stakeholders
Front/Back collaboration
Understand PSS Back responsibilities and be able to intervene on production occasionally as needed

Requirements

What you’ll need

Accounting education: IUT GEA, BTS CGO, DCG, DSCG, Master's in CCA — you have a solid foundation
Experience in an accounting firm, ideally with one or more migrations already carried out
Comfortable verbally and in writing; you interact with accountants clearly, professionally and credibly
Service mindset and client relationship skills: you understand needs, respond to them, and build long-term trust
Able to work autonomously and in a team, with real flexibility to adapt to rapid product changes
Keen to continuously learn and keep up to date on Pennylane's functional developments
English level at least A2
Nice to have: comfortable in a startup environment, English level B1, strong summarization skills and effective pedagogy, marked proactivity and autonomy

Benefits

Comp & perks

One of the best health insurance plans on the market (Alan Blue and Alan Mind)
Meal vouchers (Swile card)
Between 8 and 13 additional RTT days on top of 5 weeks of paid vacation
A monthly allowance for all Pennylaners to support working from home or coworking spaces
Easy access to our offices, located a few minutes from Saint-Lazare in the heart of Paris
A BSPCE equity package
Access to 8,000 gyms across France and over 300 wellness activities via our partner Gymlib
A Mac
Quarterly Tech Days so remote Pennylaners can meet, and an annual offsite for team-building