Finance Project Manager

Job Type:  Fixed Term Contract initially for 12 months

Location: This role could be based in either our Wythall or Telford offices with time spent working in the office and at home .

Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about Phoenix Flex here.

Closing Date: Tuesday 25thMarch

Salary and benefits: £52,000 - £65,000 plus 16% bonus up to 32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more

Who are we?

We want to be the best place that any of our 6,600 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

The role

We are looking for a Finance Project Manager who is experienced in delivering transformational change for our Finance stakeholders in a fast paced and complex environment.  The role holder will be responsible for the management of Actuarial projects within a Programme, working with a wider team of PM’s, PMO, BA’s, SMEs and senior managers to deliver projects that support Group Reporting & Tax outcomes. You will be experienced in using different delivery methodologies across Finance and IT as well as building and maintaining relationships with a cross functional set of stakeholders and focused on delivery of outcomes and benefits.

What are we looking for?

• Experience in delivering Actuarial and IT projects and able to work in a complex, ambiguous and time constrained environment
• Ability to work with relevant business stakeholders and the project/programme team to scope, define and plan the Finance deliveries required to support Group Reporting & Tax outcomes via a number of projects
• Develop and deliver an appropriate project/programme plan and source appropriate resources to ensure projects are adequately resourced and able to deliver
• Enable compliance with governance and a strong control environment for the programme / projects in line with the Phoenix Change Management Framework
• Produce and actively maintain good quality project/programme documentation, including, actions, decisions, RAID logs, change requests, incidents and governance in line with the project objectives to ensure successful delivery
• Ability to identify and manage inter-dependencies both within and outside of the Project
• Strong stakeholder management and business readiness acumen to support successful handover of change to the business and benefits realisation

We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.

 If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

Please note that we reserve the right to remove adverts earlier than the advertised closing date. We encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity.

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