Finance Project Manager
Requirements
Candidates should have demonstrated experience managing projects in Finance environments, a strong understanding of Finance and Accounting processes, and experience with enterprise systems, process redesign, and organisational change. Strong stakeholder communication, analytical and organisational skills, ERP experience, and preferably a recognised project management qualification are sought; Workday exposure is advantageous.
Job Description
As part of this role, you will collaborate with senior Finance and Accounting stakeholders, technology teams, and key business partners across the organisation to deliver strategic transformation programmes.
You will be responsible for converting business objectives into structured, measurable projects that improve processes, systems, and ways of working. This opportunity is ideal for an experienced project professional with a strong finance background who is comfortable navigating complex stakeholder environments, has a background working with on-boarding acquired companies and enterprise-wide initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee the Global Finance Transformation programme portfolio, ensuring clear oversight of priorities, project schedules, resource allocation, interdependencies, risk exposure, capacity planning, and delivery status.
- Develop and embed scalable frameworks for project intake, governance, prioritisation, and planning, ensuring strategic business objectives are translated into actionable roadmaps and delivery plans.
- Lead the coordination of finance-related transformation projects, working closely with Finance, Accounting, and Technology functions to define objectives, manage deliverables, and drive successful execution.
- Establish robust project governance structures, including portfolio reporting, RAID management, steering committees, executive-level updates, and integrated project plans. Ensure risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions are proactively identified and managed throughout project lifecycles.
- Facilitate project meetings, prepare documentation and status updates, record decisions, and track actions to ensure momentum and accountability across all initiatives.
- Partner with teams responsible for systems administration, business process optimisation, and other operational functions to align project objectives, support process enhancement efforts, manage communications, and continuously improve delivery practices.
Candidate Profile
- Demonstrated experience managing projects within Finance environments, supported by a strong understanding of core Finance and Accounting processes gained through industry or transformation-focused roles.
- Proven ability to oversee multiple concurrent initiatives while implementing effective governance processes covering prioritisation, planning, risk mitigation, dependency management, and stakeholder reporting.
- Solid knowledge of enterprise business systems and finance operations, with experience delivering projects involving process redesign, systems enhancements, business requirements gathering, and organisational change.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, capable of presenting project progress, risks, challenges, and recommendations to both operational teams and senior leadership.
- Strong organisational and analytical capabilities, coupled with a hands-on approach to project delivery, meeting coordination, action tracking, and deadline management.
- Experience working with ERP platforms is essential. Exposure to Workday would be advantageous, though not a prerequisite.
- A recognised project management qualification such as PRINCE2, PMP, AgilePM, or equivalent would be highly desirable.
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About SystemsAccountants
SystemsAccountants www.systemsaccountants.com is a leading global Finance Systems, Analytics and Transformation recruitment company. We provide permanent & contractor recruitment solutions to enable clients to implement, support, develop & optimise Finance, ERP and Analytics systems. We specialise solely in sourcing, vetting and placing professionals who have a hybrid combination of finance/accounting experience & qualifications, blended with technology (GL / ERP / eProc / EPM / BI / Analytics), project and change management expertise. Qualitative candidate assessment We understand that to deliver a truly insightful and qualitative search and selection process it is essential that we meet our candidates and clients in person. We have physically met and interviewed thousands of candidates, giving us a unique insight into their soft skills as well as the technical expertise portrayed in their CV’s or LinkedIn profiles; enabling us to source and present best-fit candidates. Finance Systems and Projects know-how Our experienced team of account managers and researchers have an average tenure of 8 years. Our internal training is concentrated on the functionality and architecture of Finance & ERP systems. This is to ensure that we are fully able to comprehend the skill sets our clients wish to hire and in turn, to enable us to critically evaluate the level of technical and functional proficiency of candidates we source and assess. Furthermore we have developed deep subject matter expertise of how ERP and Analytics systems underpin best practice business processes and operating models. We have a capability to source and vet finance systems professionals on a global basis and have offices in London, Chicago, New York, Rotterdam & Berlin. Unlike typical search & selection firms our consultants are internationally mobile, which ensures that our clients and candidates receive a tailored ‘in-person’ service, with the added market insight.
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