Legal Entity Rationalisation Project Manager
12 Month Contract | Outside IR35 or FTC Option | Hybrid (London 1-2 days per week)
We are supporting a consultancy delivering a large-scale global transformation programme for an international professional services organisation.
As part of a wider operational and corporate transformation portfolio, there is now a requirement for an experienced Project Manager to lead a complex Legal Entity Rationalisation (LER) programme.
This is a high-profile, global initiative focused on legal entity consolidation, governance, restructuring, and operational alignment across multiple international jurisdictions.
The Role
The Legal Entity Rationalisation PM will take ownership of a global entity consolidation workstream involving:
- Legal entity closures and restructuring
- Cross-border governance and compliance activity
- Operational and financial impacts
- Stakeholder coordination across multiple regions and functions
This is a highly stakeholder-heavy role requiring strong governance, structure, and programme leadership capability.
The successful candidate will work closely across:
- Legal
- Finance
- Tax
- HR
- Operations
- Corporate governance teams
- External advisors and regional stakeholders
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate a global Legal Entity Rationalisation programme
- Manage the closure, consolidation, and restructuring of international entities
- Coordinate cross-functional workstreams across Legal, Finance, HR, Tax and Operations
- Establish governance, reporting, RAID management and delivery controls
- Identify and manage programme risks, dependencies and escalation points
- Ensure regulatory, governance and compliance obligations are tracked and managed
- Coordinate country-specific delivery activities and timelines
- Drive stakeholder engagement across senior leadership groups
- Create visibility, accountability and delivery momentum across the programme
Required Experience
- Proven Project Management experience within complex transformation environments
- Strong experience across:
- Legal Entity Rationalisation
- Corporate restructuring
- M&A integration
- Entity governance
- Finance transformation
- Strong understanding of legal entity structures and cross-functional business impacts
- Experience working across global / multi-country environments
- Strong governance, risk and stakeholder management capability
- Experience coordinating complex programmes across Legal, Finance, HR and Operations
- Comfortable operating within ambiguity and evolving transformation environments
- Strong communication and senior stakeholder management skills
Contract Details
- 12 Month Contract
- Outside IR35 or FTC option available
- Hybrid working (London 1-2 days per week)
- Immediate – Tuesday 26th May Start
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