Senior Project Manager
Posted Today by Lorien
Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Project Manager will oversee the European rollout of Workday Financials for a global insurance broking company on a hybrid contract basis. This high-profile role involves leading the implementation of finance planning, budgeting, and forecasting capabilities across multiple countries. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in large-scale finance system implementations, particularly within the Financial Services sector. Strong stakeholder management and governance skills are essential for success in this position.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of the Workday Financials rollout across multiple countries and business units.
- Manage large-scale, multi-country finance system implementations within the Financial Services sector.
- Ensure alignment with global finance strategy, regulatory requirements, and local market needs.
- Oversee stakeholder management, including C-suite and senior finance leadership.
- Implement strong governance, RAID management, and delivery assurance practices.
- Manage relationships with system integrators and third-party vendors.
Key Skills:
- Demonstrated success as a Senior Project Manager in finance system implementations.
- Hands-on delivery experience with Workday Financials.
- Strong understanding of finance planning processes (budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning).
- Experience in complex, regulated environments (insurance, financial services, or similar).
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills.
- Strong governance and delivery assurance capability.
- Experience managing system integrators and third-party vendors.
- Formal project management qualification (PRINCE2, PMP, MSP, or equivalent).
- Agile/hybrid delivery experience desirable.
Salary (Rate): £70.00 hourly
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Senior Project Manager - Workday Financials - Hybrid - Outside IR35
Our client, a global Insurance broking company, are currently looking to hire a Senior Project Manager with Workday Financials experience to join the team on a hybrid working contract basis. The client are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead the European rollout of Workday Financials across multiple countries within a complex insurance broker group. This is a high-profile transformation role responsible for delivering a core planning, budgeting, and forecasting capability aligned to global finance strategy, regulatory requirements, and local market needs. In this role you will lead the end-to-end delivery of the Workday Financials rollout across multiple countries and business units.
Skills & Experience Required
- Demonstrated success as a Senior Project Manager leading large-scale, multi-country finance system implementations within the Financial Services sector, ideally with experience in an insurance broking environment.
- Hands-on delivery experience with Workday Financials (global rollout experience strongly preferred)
- Strong understanding of finance planning processes (budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning)
- Experience operating within complex, regulated environments (insurance, financial services, or similar)
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, including C-suite and senior finance leadership
- Strong governance, RAID management, and delivery assurance capability
- Experience managing system integrators and third-party vendors
Desirable
- Experience delivering Workday Financials (e.g. R2R, P2P, Prism, Accounting Centre)
- Change management and business adoption experience
Qualifications
- Formal project management qualification (PRINCE2, PMP, MSP, or equivalent)
- Agile / hybrid delivery experience desirable
- Finance or accounting background advantageous but not essential
Please apply!