Delivery Manager - Finance Transformation - #2160828

Are you an experienced Delivery Manager with a track record of successfully delivering complex transformation projects? Do you enjoy bringing together multiple teams, managing competing priorities and turning ambitious transformation plans into tangible results? Are you looking for an opportunity to play a central role in a significant Finance Transformation Programme?

Robertson Bell are delighted to be partnering with a large, complex and nationally recognised organisation to recruit a Delivery Manager – Finance Transformation on an 18-month fixed-term contract.

This is a key delivery role within a major programme designed to improve how the organisation’s Finance function operates. The transformation will span processes, systems, data, controls and ways of working, with the Delivery Manager taking responsibility for driving individual projects and workstreams through from planning to successful implementation. Salvation Army - Delivery Manag…

The key responsibilities of the Delivery Manager include:

• Taking ownership of multiple transformation workstreams, ensuring projects remain focused on agreed objectives, deadlines and deliverables.
• Building practical project plans and coordinating activity across Finance, technology, data, process improvement and organisational change.
• Bringing together colleagues from different functions and external partners to ensure activity remains joined up and progresses at pace.
• Identifying and resolving risks, issues and dependencies before they impact successful delivery.
• Tracking progress, resources, budgets and overall delivery confidence, providing clear updates to senior stakeholders.
• Coordinating testing and implementation activity to ensure solutions are ready before they are introduced across the organisation.
• Working closely with business and change colleagues to ensure teams are prepared for new systems, processes and ways of working.
• Managing relationships with external suppliers and delivery partners where required.
• Overseeing the transition of completed projects into day-to-day operations, ensuring appropriate ownership and support are in place.

The successful candidate will:

• Have significant experience delivering complex projects or workstreams within a large transformation programme.
• Demonstrate strong project and delivery management skills across timelines, budgets, resources, risks and dependencies.
• Have experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams and managing numerous stakeholders simultaneously.
• Have successfully taken projects through implementation, testing and transition into business as usual.
• Ideally have experience within a Finance Transformation Programme, although candidates with strong systems, process, data or operating model transformation experience will also be considered. Salvation Army - Delivery Manag…
• Be confident engaging and influencing senior stakeholders, while remaining sufficiently hands-on to drive delivery.
• Have experience working with third-party suppliers or implementation partners.
• Be comfortable working within a large and complex organisation undergoing significant change.

This is an 18-month fixed-term contract offering the opportunity to take a hands-on role in a substantial transformation programme and see key projects through from planning to implementation.

Applications are being reviewed on an ongoing basis, so please apply now to avoid missing out.