Finance Project Manager - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers
Description
Profile Criteria:
- Ideally a fullyqualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA) from any sector (due to the Finance aspect to the role)
- Ideally coming from a financial services environment / background
- Demonstratable project management skills
- Ability to also work as a handson Business Analyst to analyse/interrogate/mine for data, write proof of concepts, engage in UAT testing, help write specifications to provide to I.T. / developers, etc.
- Good understanding and experience around delivering Finance Change
- Experience with Alteryx, PowerBI or something similar
- Excellent communicator with commercial sense and stakeholder management experience with the ability to communicate the value of building/maintaining/adopting/developing strong relationships
Responsibilities:
- Maintain a project list detailing out all projects currently being considered by Finance and progress made.
- Working alongside IT to ensure the accounting systems are well supported and used in the most efficient way.
- Manage project delivery according to the company's project methodology, policies and standards.
- Manage and report on issue identification and resolution.
- Manage risk tracking process within a project.
- Work closely with the Finance teams, wider business support and internal/external development teams to define and deliver pragmatic solutions which meet business needs.
- Create & manage project plans.
- Monitor and manage scope creep.
- Develop, monitor and execute a comprehensive communications plan during the entire lifecycle of the project.
- Monitoring project and transition progress and performance.
- Manage any project dependencies within the project.
- Assisting in closing the project including the assignment of follow on actions and transferring the deliverable to BAU activity.
- Presenting post implementation monitoring, reporting and analysis.
- Manage all own project documentation and support others in finance with their documentation.
- Provide training on project management where required.
- Work on multiple projects simultaneously.
- Support the Finance leadership team with PMO reporting.
- Support the management team with adhoc tasks when required.
- Ability to work with business SMEs as well as project and IT representatives.
- Help define business requirements and translate into project deliverables.
Experience and Skills Required:
- Role relevant qualification or accreditation desirable.
- Relevant, appropriate and demonstratable experience in a similar role.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Proficiency in project management software tools.
- Technical finance and regulatory exposure or knowledge desirable.
- Experience in a project role with proven project delivery is required.
- Proven and demonstrable Excel and data analytical skills (Power BI or Alteryx desirable).
- Process analysis, design and engineering.
- Experience working on projects related to Oracle, Concur or OneStream desirable.
- Selfstarter with ability to work on their own initiative with mínimal supervision.
- Ability to understand and translate complex business requirements.
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