Project / Programme Manager

Role: Project / Programme Manager
Type: Contract (Outside IR35)
Location: Remote
Durtation: 6 months

Overview
Our client, a leading Financial Services organisation, is seeking an experienced Project / Programme Manager to lead the delivery of a strategic and high-profile finance reconciliation transformation programme involving the implementation of AutoRek.
This is a business-critical role within a programme that has experienced delivery challenges and requires a strong delivery-focused professional capable of bringing structure, leadership, and momentum to a complex environment.
Initially focused on a single phase of delivery, the programme is expected to expand into multiple concurrent phases and workstreams from Q4, creating a highly visible and strategically important engagement.

Key Responsibilities
Lead the end-to-end delivery of the AutoRek implementation programme.
Establish robust governance, planning, reporting, RAID management, and delivery controls.
Manage delivery across Technology, Finance, Testing, and Business stakeholders.
Build strong relationships with senior leaders while confidently challenging where necessary.
Coordinate internal teams, SMEs, vendors, and third-party partners to ensure successful delivery.
Drive programme milestones, manage dependencies, and maintain delivery momentum.
Control scope and manage changes to ensure programme objectives remain achievable.
Provide regular status updates and reporting to senior stakeholders and sponsors.
Identify and mitigate risks, issues, and blockers proactively.
Support the transition from a single delivery phase to a multi-phase programme structure.Essential Experience
Extensive Project Management and/or Programme Management experience within Financial Services.
Proven track record delivering finance transformation, reconciliation, accounting, regulatory, or finance systems programmes.
Experience delivering AutoRek implementations or comparable reconciliation platforms.
Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to operate effectively at senior leadership level.
Experience working across both Technology and Finance functions.
Demonstrable success recovering, stabilising, or driving challenging programmes to completion.
Strong knowledge of governance, planning, budgeting, risk, and dependency management.Desirable Experience
Asset Management, Insurance, Wealth Management, or Banking sector experience.
Experience managing multiple workstreams within large-scale transformation programmes.
Understanding of finance testing processes and reconciliation controls.
Experience with data migration, finance platforms, and systems integration initiatives.
Ideal Candidate A seasoned Financial Services Project/Programme Manager with strong reconciliation and finance transformation experience, ideally including AutoRek, who can bring control, structure, and leadership to a challenging programme and successfully deliver against demanding business objectives
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed