Project Manager – Finance and HR Service Transition (12-month FTC)

Role: Project Manager – Finance and HR Service Transition (12-month FTC)

Location: London

Contract Type: Contract

Work Pattern: Full Time and Hybrid

An experienced Project Manager required to lead the end-to-end delivery of a confidential (under NDA) service transition

They are responsible for coordinating cross-functional teams, managing resources, and the project delivers the desired results on time and within budget. Key objectives include managing risks, resolving issues, and implementing changes effectively when necessary to meet project outputs. The Project Manager serves as the key point of contact for stakeholders, maintaining communication and reporting progress throughout the project lifecycle.

About the Job

What you will spend your time doing

Project Leadership and Governance

Manage project scope, schedule, budget, risks, and dependencies across multiple workstreams.

Establish clear governance and reporting structures to ensure transparency, effective decision-making, and project control.

Act as the key liaison between delivery teams, operational support teams, and business stakeholders.

Prepare project documentation including business cases, project plans, RAID logs, transition plans, and status reports for senior stakeholders and governance forums.

Ensure delivery aligns with business strategy, service management standards, and organisational priorities.

Service Transition and Operational Readiness

Lead the planning and execution of Finance and Actuarial service transition activities to ensure new or changed services are successfully handed over into BAU operations.

Work with Finance teams to define and implement service support models including processes, tooling, and support structures for the ledger.

Ensure operational readiness through activities such as knowledge transfer, documentation, training, and support operating model definition.

Coordinate testing, validation, and sign-off finance processes prior to release (where appropriate).

Ensure finance teams have the necessary knowledge, documentation, and capabilities to support new services effectively.

Facilitate transition readiness reviews and both design and ensure service acceptance criteria are met before go-live.

Service Company set up and Operational Readiness

• •Own and drive the end-to-end plan for establishment and operational readiness of the new service company, coordinating legal entity, governance, finance, tax, regulatory, HR, technology and operational activities through to go-live.
• •Manage the employing-entity implementation, including the integrated plan for employee transfer/novation, consultation, onboarding, payroll, benefits, policies, contracts and associated people dependencies, working closely with HR and Legal.
• •Coordinate the design and implementation of the service-company operating model, ensuring that services to the Lloyd’s syndicate and other relevant entities have clear ownership, accountabilities, governance, service levels and escalation arrangements.
• •Maintain the integrated critical path and dependency plan across service transition and people transition, identifying where movement of employees is dependent upon services transferring from existing entities and actively resolving sequencing conflicts.
• •Drive legal-entity and corporate readiness, coordinating the actions required for the entity to operate effectively including Board/governance arrangements, delegated authorities, banking, accounting, tax, insurance and other corporate infrastructure.
• •Coordinate regulatory and outsourcing readiness for the Lloyd’s business, ensuring appropriate documentation, governance and evidence are in place for intra-group services, operational resilience, outsourcing oversight and relevant regulatory notifications.
• •Lead development and implementation of intercompany service arrangements, including service schedules, SLAs/KPIs, recharge and cost-allocation mechanisms, contracts and the controls required to demonstrate appropriate oversight by the regulated entity.
• •Establish and manage formal readiness, acceptance and go-live criteria, bringing together evidence from each workstream, tracking remediation of gaps and supporting appropriate executive/Board approvals and risk acceptance prior to transition.
• •Own programme governance, RAID and executive reporting for the service-company set-up, providing clear visibility of decisions, milestones, financial impacts, dependencies and risks and escalating matters requiring Design Authority, Steering Committee or Board decisions.
• •Plan and coordinate cutover, hyper care and transition into BAU, ensuring employees, services, systems, controls, contracts and support arrangements move together and that ownership is formally handed over to the new entity following stabilisation.

Stakeholder Engagement and People Leadership

Build strong relationships with business leaders, relevant teams, and operational stakeholders to ensure alignment and engagement throughout project delivery.

Facilitate workshops and working groups to gather requirements, address challenges, and support collaborative decision-making.

Provide clear and consistent communication regarding project progress, risks, and outcomes.

Lead cross-functional teams and promote collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Support teams through organisational and technology change by ensuring clarity of roles, expectations, and support structures.

Act as a trusted partner to stakeholders, helping them navigate change and maximise the value of initiatives, managing dependencies with BAU programmes.

Change Management and Adoption

Assess the people and organisational impact of the new operating model.

Work closely with change and service management teams to support communication, training, and adoption activities.

Ensure appropriate knowledge transfer and documentation are provided to operational teams and end users.

Support the successful adoption of new services by embedding sustainable processes and ways of working.

Monitor post-implementation outcomes and support early-life service stabilisation.

Risk, Compliance, and Service Assurance

Identify and manage project and operational risks related to delivery, service continuity, and operational support.

Ensure solutions comply with internal governance, security standards, and regulatory requirements where applicable.

Work with Risk, Security, and Compliance teams to ensure appropriate controls and assurance activities are completed, and within tolerance escalating where necessary.

Support service assurance activities including operational readiness assessments and post-implementation reviews (where appropriate).

What you’ll need

Essential:

Proven experience delivering complex projects with a strong focus on service transition and operational and people readiness.

Strong understanding of finance, processes, and systems.

Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage delivery across both technical and operational stakeholders.

Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication, and influencing skills with the ability to build strong relationships at all organisational levels.

Strong leadership skills with a people-focused approach to collaboration, engagement, and team performance.

Experience managing project governance, planning, risks, and delivery milestones.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.

Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver under pressure within complex environments.

Desirable:

Experience working in Finance and Finance change environments.

Familiarity with Oracle and finance systems.

Experience supporting technology adoption, organisational change, and service onboarding.

Knowledge of enterprise environments, infrastructure, applications, and service operations.

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