Senior Finance Project Manager
Location: London
Contract: Inside IR35
Duration: 6 Months
This is a great opportunity for someone who is an experienced Senior Project Manager with a strong track record delivering change across Insurance Finance, Investments, or Asset Management environments.
A bit about the job:
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Finance Project Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of strategic change initiatives within Aviva’s IWR Finance function.
Working as part of a wider programme, you’ll partner closely with business owners, workstream leads, and senior stakeholders across Actuarial, Finance, Investments, Investment Operations, and Asset Management teams to successfully deliver a portfolio of asset onboarding initiatives through implementation and closure.
You’ll take ownership of detailed delivery planning, governance, RAID management, stakeholder engagement, reporting, and controls to ensure initiatives are delivered on time, within budget, and to agreed quality standards.
A key focus of the role will be supporting the onboarding of new assets and embedding cross-functional processes and operating practices that will help shape the future Finance and Investments operating model.
You’ll also support adoption and readiness activities across communications, testing, training, and business transition to ensure sustainable outcomes.
Skills and experience we’re looking for:
- Proven experience delivering change projects within an Insurance Finance and/or Investments environment (essential)
- Demonstrable experience managing asset onboarding, financial reporting change, or investment operations transformation initiatives
- Project management qualification such as PRINCE2, APM, PMI, or equivalent delivery experience (essential)
- Strong experience in test management and business readiness activities (essential)
- Working knowledge of Agile and/or hybrid delivery methodologies, applying fit-for-purpose governance and controls
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and communicate across senior business and technical audiences
- Experience producing clear status reporting, managing risks/issues, and facilitating governance and decision-making forums
- Strong delivery management capability across cross-functional teams and third-party suppliers
- Ability to manage dependencies, scope, and organisational change impacts across multiple initiatives simultaneously
Ideal background:
We’d particularly welcome applications from candidates who have delivered similar programmes within:
- Insurance and Retirement Solutions organisations
- Asset Managers supporting insurer clients
- Investment and back-office transformation environments
- Businesses with complex asset onboarding and finance operating models
Please ensure that you attach an up-to-date CV when you apply.
We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply.
We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.
We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending at least 50% of their time in our offices every week – combining the benefits of flexibility with time together with colleagues.
We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, or if you have any queries in relation to the vacancy, you can email: charlie.caudwell@randstadsourceright.co.uk
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