Overview

Expleo is seeking a talented Project Manager with a strong finance background, ideally with consulting experience, to join our team and play a key role in an exciting new programme to establish a retail bank from the ground up. This is a highly visible, client-facing role lead a finance-led transformation within a regulated environment.

You will work closely with senior client stakeholders, internal delivery teams, and third-party partners to deliver end-to-end change, ensuring business and financial operations are fully prepared for go-live for the new retail bank.

Responsibilities

• Project Manage the delivery of a greenfield retail bank setup programme, with responsibility for establishing robust financial operations.
• Ensure full finance operational readiness for new entity go-live, including:
  • Accounts receivable and payable
  • Financial controlling and accounting
  • Treasury, tax, VAT, and financial modelling
• Build and maintain detailed project plans, ensuring alignment with overall programme objectives.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies.
• Monitor project budgets, ensuring cost-effective delivery.
• Provide regular status updates to stakeholders, highlighting progress, risks, and issues.
• Ensure all deliverables meet the required quality standards.
• Work closely with existing finance teams, extending and enabling their capabilities to support the new retail bank entity, ensuring appropriate processes, controls, and reporting are in place.
• Collaborate with third-party suppliers to agree financial processes, requirements, and data transfer arrangements.
• Provide strong stakeholder management, guiding finance and business colleagues through organisational and process change

Qualifications

• Desirable Certifications: Financial qualification, MAPM, Scrum Master, PMP, Prince2

Essential skills

• Strong understanding of the finance operating model within a large corporate
• Excellent client-facing skills
• Strong understanding of Waterfall methodologies
• Experience of working as part of a team in large deployments
• People management skills - the ability to lead and focus teams in complex projects
• Desire to continue to build domain knowledge- process, tools, applications, platforms
• Microsoft Project

Experience

• Experience of leading large scale financial change projects
• Experience leading Waterfall projects
• Experience within the automotive industry is desirable but not essential
• Experience of setting up a retail bank is desirable but not essential

What do I need before I apply

• The expectation is that you will be able to work on client site in Buckinghamshire 1-2 days per week or as the programme requires.
• Fluency in English is required to effectively communicate with clients.

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment - we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• Communicating and promoting vacancies
• Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

"We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age".

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive

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