Finance Project Manager

Role: Finance Project Manager

Location: London - 1 day per week onsite

Rate: 750 per day via umbrella company

Length: Initial 6 months

About the team:

The finance team covers financial reporting, regulatory reporting, Treasury, commercial performance and Finance transformation & change. The small finance transformation and change team focuses on enabling transformational change within Finance; guided by our strategic ambitions and delivered through an agile way of working. As Finance Project Manager you will report to the Finance Transformation & Change Lead and will work closely with the Finance Leadership Team as well as colleagues across finance and the business.

Responsibilities:

As key member of the Finance Transformation and Change you will be asked to support a variety of initiatives throughout their project lifecycle, including but not limited to the following:

Ideation and backlog

• Finance subject matter expert on the HINV change framework and HINV Finance Book of Work.
• Ensuring new book of work entries are captured in line with minimum data requirements.
• Enabling and challenging product owners on prioritisation discussions ensuring alignment to Finance strategy.

Project initiation

• Support Finance, Business & Technology Leads with prioritisation and roadmap for delivery.
• Support detailed business case definition, and business change cost estimates.

• Understand stakeholder's viewpoints to determine and deliver the most beneficial solutions.
• Use finance, systems and banking knowledge and expertise to help confirm solutions which can be delivered within a robust change management framework.
• Support the Finance Transformation & Change Lead with the design and implementation of the Finance Transformation & Change governance model.
• Support in establishing a project reporting and KPI tracking framework which effectively captures and escalates corrective actions to risks and issues.
• Identification of key RAID items and definition of mitigation approaches on your projects
• Formulation of project plans and assessment of SME capacity required to deliver.
• Articulation of key project outcomes and success criteria.
• Creation and ownership of project Plan on a Page (PoaP).

Project delivery

• Proactively identify, manage, and control delivery risks and other RAID items across the Finance book of work .

• Leading adoption and continuous improvement of Agile Ways of Operating across the portfolio through informally coaching finance colleagues in change management best practice
• Bring a focus to the programme on business outcomes, and benefits management (including benefits realisation).
• Facilitate stakeholders through decision making, consulting them, influencing them and by resolving conflicts and disagreement etc.

Project completion

• Ensure completion of scope evidenced by sign-off from SMEs and Accountable Executive (AE).
• Validation of business case and benefits measurement.
• Documentation of lessons learnt.
• Project artefacts saved and shared with key stakeholders for future reference and learnings.

Other

• Promote and recognise cross-cultural working and communication within team - be culturally sensitive.
• Build and sustain trusting relationships with internal customers by consistently delivering value add services.
• Self-starter with the ability to interchange working styles, either independently of direction or with multiple stakeholders on any stage of project delivery

• Influence and manage HINV, Global Finance Centre (GFC) and UK stakeholders and sponsor relationships in leading the change and achieving the benefits.
• Promote a cultural mind-shift to including Business Change as a key success factor in achieving sustainable business outcomes.
• Ensure that change impacts and reactions are analysed and change interventions identified to manage those impacts and reactions across all areas
• Develop change solution and designs / options that are focused on successful change embedding into the teams

Key Skills and Experience:

To be successful in your application for this role, you will need to demonstrate the following:

• Work experience in dynamic and fast-paced environments, and/or other high-growth businesses in the Financial Services and/or Technology industries
• Be culturally sensitive and be passionate about building and working with diverse teams.
• A strategic thinker with strong execution skills with a proven ability to apply change management principles and methodologies to drive change in a regulated environment.
• An understanding of governance principles, best practice, and legal and regulatory requirements with a proven ability to identify risks associated with large scale change and transformation initiatives.
• Ability to think at a strategic level while simultaneously rolling up the sleeves to solve for key opportunities and problems.
• Strong communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to juggle multiple projects while maintaining an impeccable judgment and attention to detail.
• Excellent business and financial acumen, and ability to find and use data and analysis effectively to assist in fact-based decision making.
• Appetite/curiosity for exploration and constant update on market and industry trends
• Strong technical aptitude and ability to quickly learn new products, lines of business, processes, software, systems, and client needs.
• Ability to build strong relationships with a broad set of stakeholders across all levels within the organization as well as with key outside partners.