Senior Programme Manager

You will lead the Finance Systems and Transformation portfolio from planning through execution, adoption, and benefits realisation. You will manage governance, delivery plans, risks, dependencies, budgets, suppliers, business readiness, and programme reporting for senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Translate finance transformation strategy into programmes, workstreams, milestones, and outcomes
• Drive delivery across multiple initiatives and intervene when progress, ownership, or quality is at risk
• Own the transformation roadmap, integrated plan, critical path, and cross-workstream dependencies
• Operate programme governance, including Steering Committee preparation, decision papers, reporting, and action tracking
• Establish planning, RAID, dependency, decision, change-control, financial-tracking, and document-management standards
• Manage delivery risks and issues and escalate material matters
• Challenge plans, assumptions, estimates, and recovery actions
• Confirm readiness of scope, requirements, testing, controls, documentation, and handover before stage-gate decisions
• Coordinate internal teams, contractors, and delivery partners
• Ensure change, communications, training, readiness, ownership, and BAU transition activities
• Define benefits, track realisation, and apply lessons learned

Requirements

• Experience leading complex multi-workstream finance systems or enterprise transformation programmes
• Programme and portfolio management capability
• Integrated planning, governance, RAID, dependency management, change control, and benefits realisation
• Experience preparing executive and Steering Committee reporting
• Experience coordinating Finance, Technology, Operations, and external delivery partners
• Experience challenging delivery plans and driving recovery activity
• Understanding of finance processes, systems implementation, controls, testing, readiness, and BAU transition
• Commercial and financial discipline for budgets, forecasts, resources, and supplier commitments
• Stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and influencing skills
• Experience in financial services or a regulated environment
• Experience with Finance ERP, EPM, reporting, data, controls, or operating-model transformation
• Microsoft Dynamics 365
• Anaplan
• Power BI
• Qlik
• Azure DevOps
• MSP
• PRINCE2
• PMP