Senior Project Manager - Finance at Liberty Blume in Bradford

Job description

• We’re looking for a Senior Project Manager – Finance Transformation to join our team in Bradford (BD4) on a 12-month fixed-term contract with potential to become permanent. This hybrid role offers flexibility, with two days in the office and three days working remotely.
• This is an exciting opportunity to lead some of the most impactful finance transformation programmes across Liberty Blume. From AI-powered automation and autonomous finance processes to large-scale change initiatives, you'll play a key role in helping shape the future of Finance.
• Working within our Transformation team and reporting to the Director of Transformation, you'll partner with senior Finance, Technology and Operational stakeholders to deliver strategic change programmes that improve efficiency, standardisation, automation and business performance.
• This role provides a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact within a high-profile transformation portfolio, with the potential for further opportunities as the business continues to grow.
• If you're a hands-on Project Manager who enjoys solving complex challenges, influencing senior stakeholders and delivering meaningful business change, we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Leading end-to-end delivery of finance transformation and business change programmes.
• Driving initiatives focused on process improvement, automation, controls, reporting and operating model transformation.
• Managing project plans, governance, budgets, risks, dependencies and stakeholder communications.
• Partnering with Finance leaders, SMEs, Technology teams and third-party suppliers to deliver successful outcomes.
• Identifying opportunities to improve finance processes through technology, data, AI and automation.
• Supporting organisational change activities including communications, training and adoption planning.
• Maintaining project documentation including business cases, RAID logs, project plans and transformation roadmaps.
• Ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope and aligned to strategic business objectives.
• Building strong relationships across Finance, Operations and Technology functions.
• Championing delivery excellence and continuous improvement across transformation initiatives.

Requirements

• Proven experience delivering complex finance transformation, ERP, business change or process improvement programmes.
• Strong project management expertise, supported by recognised qualifications or certifications (e.g., PRINCE2, PMP, AgilePM, Scrum Master)
• Experience working across finance processes including Record-to-Report (R2R), Procure-to-Pay (P2P) and Order-to-Cash (O2C).
• Track record of managing senior stakeholders and executive sponsors.
• Experience delivering technology-enabled transformation projects.
• Strong understanding of governance, risk management and project controls.
• Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience working in multinational or complex business environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience with Microsoft Project, Jira, Monday.com or similar delivery tools.
• Highly organised, adaptable and able to manage competing priorities
• Experience delivering ERP implementations such as Oracle, SAP or Microsoft Dynamics.
• Exposure to shared services or global business services environments.
• Lean Six Sigma or continuous improvement experience.
• Experience supporting organisational change and adoption activities.
• Knowledge of AI, automation or robotic process automation initiatives.
• Familiarity with Power BI, Tableau or other reporting and visualisation tools.

Skills

Required

• Project management
• Stakeholder management
• Governance
• Risk management
• Project controls
• Communication
• Influencing
• Stakeholder engagement
• Analytical
• Problem-solving
• Microsoft Project
• Jira

Preferred

• Lean Six Sigma
• Continuous improvement
• Organisational change and adoption
• AI
• Automation
• Robotic process automation
• Power BI
• Tableau

Benefits

• Competitive salary + Bonus
• 25 days annual leave + buy 5 days
• Access to wellbeing and mental health benefits such as the Calm app, personal medical, critical illness cover and dental insurance, plus many more.
• Matched pension contribution up to 10%
• Life assurance & income protection
• Exclusive Virgin Media O2 products, employee discounts and cashback offers on thousands of brands
• Access to electric car scheme
• 24 hours paid volunteering leave