Finance Project Manager

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About the job

Hiscox seeking to optimize the delivery of change projects across all Group Functions including Group Finance.

As a Project Manager within the Finance Transformation team, you will be responsible for driving change standards and best practice across the function. You will be responsible for managing high profile projects and ensuring their successful execution by meeting its deliverables, business outcomes and committed benefits within tightly managed time, scope and cost thresholds. You will be responsible for assembling and leading the project teams and ensuring appropriate skills and leverage to allow you to successfully lead the delivery.

Reporting into the Head of Finance Transformation, you will be the lead change professional on your assigned projects and will be responsible for managing and maintaining support from senior stakeholders and executive sponsors across the Group functions.

Key responsibilities:

• Project manage and lead the successful delivery across each of the assigned Finance projects by:

  • Development and tracking of robust business cases based on clear scope, resource and third party requirements

  • Creating, amending and maintaining detailed yet pragmatic project plans

  • Tracking financials and managing project(s) against tightly governed cost plans

  • Engaging and driving delivery from multiple teams including implementation partners and/or other third party partners

  • Identifying and resolving business and supplier issues in order to ensure that projects can be delivered on time, within budget and to quality targets

  • Assessing and managing risks, issues, dependencies and assumptions associated with the delivery of the project

  • Ensuring key stakeholders, internally and externally, are aware of what is required and when

  • Regularly reporting progress to senior stakeholders as required

• Working closely with the Group Functions Change team to identify dependencies, opportunities, efficiencies, and synergies across the Group change portfolio

• Work with key stakeholders and sponsors across the Group functions to deliver in-line with strategic plans and build out a forward-looking change pipeline

• Build relationships and become a trusted delivery partner to the Group functions

• Run change governance forums and facilitate decision making through data driven insights

• Work closely with the Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) team to ensure the Portfolio aligns with EPM approach and standards

• Assemble and manage high performing project teams to achieve business outcomes

Requirements:

Experience

• Relevant project/portfolio/programme management qualification(s) and/or experience of having led projects, programmes, or portfolios ideally in an Financial Services context

• Extensive experience managing challenging stakeholders up to Executive level

• Experienced working as a Project Manager with multiple projects in an environment with challenging timeframes and deliverables.

• Exposure to the full project life cycle, from inception to user acceptance testing and initial live running with the experience to use the correct level of control.

• Experience of detailed project planning and management, across people, process and multiple systems.

• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast paced environment

• Highly results driven, with the energy and determination to succeed in a fast paced environment

About Hiscox

As an international specialist insurer we are far removed from the world of mass market insurance products. Instead we are selective and focus on our key areas of expertise and strength - all of which is underpinned by a culture that encourages us to challenge convention and always look for a better way of doing things.

We insure the unique and the interesting. And we search for the same when it comes to talented people. Hiscox is full of smart, reliable human beings that look out for customers and each other. We believe in doing the right thing, making good and rebuilding when things go wrong. Everyone is encouraged to think creatively, challenge the status quo and look for solutions.

Scratch beneath the surface and you will find a business that is solid, but slightly contrary. We like to do things differently and constantly seek to evolve. We might have been around for a long time (our roots go back to 1901), but we are young in many ways, ambitious and going places.

Some people might say insurance is dull, but life at Hiscox is anything but. If that sounds good to you, get in touch.

Diversity and Hybrid working

At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job and we’re committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success.

We have also learned over the past few years that working life doesn’t always have to be in the office, and now it is safe to do so we have introduced hybrid working to encourage a healthy work life balance.

This hybrid working model is set by the team rather than the business to enable you to manage your own personal work-life balance. We see it as the best of both worlds; structure and sociability on one hand, and independence and flexibility on the other.

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