Finance Project Manager - Shared Services

Yorkshire

Hybrid working

9 months FTC

£70K - £80K + Benefits / Day rate equivalent

The role

The Finance Project Manager will work with the Finance Shared Service Centre and international teams on the transformation program.

Responsibilities:

• Identify candidate processes and services for transition to the SSC ahead of the implementation of the new system; at the point of go-live of the new system; and as the new system stabilises
• Work with central, regional and local finance teams to understand local requirements and where possible, transition to a standard process and way of working
• Ensure that transitions are properly managed and governed, that processes are fully documented, that knowledge share activities are completed and that all parties sign off appropriate milestones
• Work with Global Process Owners to ensure that transitioned processes are compliant with local statutory and tax regulations
• Work with SSC management on recruitment activities to ensure teams are resourced to take on new services
• Work with HR and local finance teams to ensure people impacts are managed appropriately
• Lead on communication, engagement and training activities
• Work with Programme teams to understand the impact transitions will have on the programme, especially from a change management, training and data quality perspective
• Ensure that Service Level Agreements are in place between the SSC and finance teams for all newly transitioned services
• Engage with Change Review/Management processes as required to assess/review/sign off all technology and process changes.

Skills & Experience needed

• Ideally Prince 2 Practitioner (or similar) and / or experience and understanding of the project life cycle
• Experience of working on finance projects
• Advantageous if understands transactional finance but not essential
• Good communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ideally have worked with shared services and / or offshore delivery centres
• Be a self-starter, who is able to work on their own initiative as well as being part of a virtual team
• Experience of working on large scale, multi-location change initiatives
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with the international teams.