Location: Newbury + Hybrid. Salary: Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits. Working hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week – Monday to Friday. Duration: 12 Months Secondment/Fixed Term Contract.
What you’ll do
- Lead complex finance transformation projects from planning through to delivery, ensuring objectives are achieved on time, within scope, and within budget.
- Partner with Finance teams and wider stakeholder to understand challenges, identify opportunities, and develop practical solutions.
- Act as the bridge between programme teams and Finance functions, ensuring new capabilities are successfully embedded and adopted.
- Define and communicate the impact of change across people, processes, and technology.
- Build, lead, and motivate cross‑functional and virtual teams, creating a collaborative and empowered working environment.
- Manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and roadblocks, taking proactive action to keep delivery on track.
- Develop strong relationships with internal stakeholders, third‑party suppliers, and external partners to enable efficient and cost‑effective delivery.
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying innovative ways to enhance project outcomes and maximise business benefits.
- Support business readiness and change management activities, helping teams successfully transition through transformation initiatives.
- Influence and engage stakeholders at all levels, including senior and executive leadership teams.
Who you are
- Proven experience delivering complex business transformation or change programmes, with at least 5 years of project management experience.
- A recognised Project Management qualification such as PRINCE2, PMP, or equivalent.
- Strong knowledge of project delivery methodologies, including Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, and/or SAFe frameworks.
- Experience working within, or exposure to, Finance or Accounting environments.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross‑functional teams and successfully manage multiple stakeholders.
- Strong change management skills with the ability to drive adoption and realise business benefits.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, with confidence presenting complex information to senior and executive‑level audiences.
- A proactive, solutions‑focused mindset with the ability to challenge the status‑quo and champion innovation.
- Strong problem‑solving skills and experience managing risks, issues, and dependencies in large‑scale programmes.
- Capability to thrive in a fast‑changing environment and adapt to evolving business priorities.
- A collaborative and inclusive leadership style that builds trust, empowers others, and delivers results through teamwork.
What we offer
- Excellent pay, bonuses, up to 28 days off plus bank holidays, and paid time for charity work.
- Personalised benefits for you and your family, including discounts, vouchers, a pension plan and more.
- Career development opportunities through learning tools and strong parental leave policies.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and actively encourage individuals with disabilities to apply for positions within our team. Through the ‘Offer an Interview’ scheme, we aim to offer interviews to a fair and proportionate number of applicants with disabilities who best meet the essential criteria for our vacancies.
We are inclusive and welcome everyone, regardless of personal or professional background. If you feel you’re passionate about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to apply – you may be the right candidate for this role or another role. Our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.
Need to Know
We are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulator’s standards.
If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, or assistive technology, please refer to the Accessibility section of our Careers website for guidance.
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