Project Manager

Your first mission will be to lead the implementation of the Group’s Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) platform. This strategic programme will modernise and integrate key financial processes, including consolidation, forecasting, management reporting, and regulatory reporting. As Project Manager, you will coordinate the end-to-end delivery of the programme, working closely with Group Finance product owners, implementation partners, and executive stakeholders to ensure successful delivery and sustainable adoption of the new solution.

• Partner with stakeholders to assess the feasibility, value, and strategic relevance of proposed initiatives prior to project initiation.
• Define and document the project business case, scope, objectives, deliverables, and success measures to ensure alignment with organisational priorities.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive project plans that outline activities, milestones, timelines, resources, and dependencies required for successful delivery.
• Establish clear project governance structures, including decision forums, escalation pathways, and reporting frameworks.
• Identify and coordinate project stakeholders and resources, clarifying roles and accountabilities to support effective delivery.
• Lead the mobilisation of project teams and facilitate collaboration across functions to drive coordinated execution.
• Manage the implementation of project plans, ensuring delivery within agreed scope, timelines, budget parameters, and quality standards.
• Monitor project progress against key milestones and proactively address deviations through corrective actions and structured change control.
• Manage interdependencies across business areas, systems, vendors, and delivery partners to ensure alignment of project activities.
• Oversee the performance of external vendors or implementation partners to ensure delivery against contractual commitments and project objectives.
• Facilitate the transition of completed project deliverables into sustainable business-as-usual operations, including appropriate documentation and handover.
• Manage the formal close-out of projects, including performance evaluation, lessons learned, and recommendations to strengthen future project delivery.

Governance and Reporting

• Establish and maintain appropriate project governance structures, including decision forums, reporting channels, and escalation processes.
• Maintain accurate documentation of project plans, risks, issues, decisions, and change requests.
• Prepare and deliver high-quality project reporting and executive updates to senior stakeholders and governance forums.
• Monitor project budgets and track expenditure against approved allocations.
• Ensure structured change control processes are applied to manage scope adjustments and maintain project discipline.
• Facilitate the transition of completed projects into sustainable business-as-usual operations.

Stakeholder and Resource Management

• Serve as the central coordination point for project stakeholders, ensuring alignment across business areas, shared services, and external partners.
• Facilitate collaboration across cross-functional teams to ensure integration of project activities and successful delivery of outcomes.
• Manage relationships with internal stakeholders and external vendors to ensure accountability for agreed deliverables.
• Coordinate the allocation and utilisation of project resources to support effective delivery.
• Support stakeholder engagement, training, and communication initiatives to enable successful adoption of project outcomes.

Risk and Issue Management

• Identify potential project risks and develop mitigation strategies to address them.
• Maintain project risk and issue logs to ensure emerging risks and challenges are actively managed.
• Escalate significant risks, issues, or deviations from plan to the appropriate governance forums.
• Ensure that appropriate controls, oversight mechanisms, and governance processes are embedded within project delivery.

Performance Tracking and Value Realisation

• Define and track project success metrics aligned to intended business outcomes.
• Monitor project performance using appropriate tools and reporting frameworks to ensure transparency and accountability.
• Support leadership in evaluating project outcomes and measuring the value realised from project implementation.
• Conduct post-implementation reviews to identify lessons learned and opportunities for improvement for future initiatives.