Location
Newbury + Hybrid
Salary
Excellent basic salary plus bonus and Vodafone benefits
Working Hours
Full time 37.5 hours per week – Monday to Friday
Hybrid Work
Collaborative hybrid working is encouraged. Employees are expected to work both in the office and at home, with flexibility to suit individual roles. Managers will clarify specific expectations per team.
What You’ll Do
As a Project Specialist within the Finance Transformation team, you will play a key role in delivering meaningful changes across Finance. Your responsibilities include shaping new processes, improving ways of working, and ensuring projects are delivered successfully.
- Lead and support the delivery of multiple small to medium-sized Finance change projects, ensuring smooth implementation and successful outcomes.
- Partner with Finance Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to assess impacts across people, processes, and systems.
- Establish and coordinate Finance working groups to ensure all key stakeholders are engaged and aligned.
- Create, maintain, and track project plans, ensuring Finance requirements are delivered alongside wider programme timelines.
- Provide clear reporting, project updates, and insight, including capacity planning, risk management, and issue tracking.
- Coordinate key project documentation and support the gathering and management of Finance business requirements.
- Help develop and execute Finance testing plans, ensuring solutions meet business needs before launch.
- Facilitate Finance go/no‑go decision‑making and support seamless handovers into business‑as‑usual teams.
- Contribute to wider PMO, governance, and demand management activities within the Finance Delivery Hub.
- Identify opportunities to simplify processes, improve efficiency, and enhance the way the team operates.
Who You Are
- Experience working within a project delivery, PMO, business change, or transformation environment.
- Strong project management knowledge with exposure to Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies.
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously.
- Confidence working with a wide range of stakeholders and building effective relationships across teams.
- A proactive, self‑motivated approach with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- High attention to detail combined with the ability to maintain momentum and deliver results.
- Strong analytical, reporting, and problem‑solving skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools, including Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and Project.
- The ability to thrive in a dynamic, evolving environment where change is constant.
- Experience working with Finance teams or Finance transformation initiatives would be beneficial, but is not essential.
- Exposure to project, change, or continuous improvement frameworks such as PRINCE2, AgilePM, Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, Design Thinking, or Change Management would be advantageous.
- A collaborative mindset and commitment to creating an inclusive, supportive, and high‑performing team culture where diverse perspectives are valued.
Benefits
We care about our people’s success by offering great pay, bonuses, up to 28 days off plus bank holidays, and paid time for charity work. Benefits include discounts, vouchers, a pension plan and more. We support career development through learning tools and offer strong parental leave policies.
Legal and Accessibility Information
We are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. All offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet regulatory standards. If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, please refer to our accessibility guidance at https://careers.vodafone.com/uk/reasonable-adjustments/.
Equality and Inclusion
We are a Disability Confident Employer and actively encourage individuals with disabilities to apply. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and aim to provide inclusive recruitment processes. If you would like to participate in our ‘Offer an Interview’ scheme, you may indicate this on your application.
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