Job Description

The Finance and Business Manager will be assigned to deliver a change initiative and will need to understand the wider objectives of their project, demonstrate credibility in that field and be able to influence others. They must be able to develop and maintain effective working relationships with senior managers, the programme office, the wider project and portfolio teams, and third parties.

What you will be doing;

• Overall lead for the Technology ISO budget and forecasting until 2025; establishing a PMO in 2023 to own the Technology ISO governance, interfacing with the Transformation team to provide a holistic financial position.
• Work with team leads to understand and challenge their current spend patterns and drivers behind underspend and overspend against baselined forecasting at the start of the year
• Review spend periodically (typically monthly but currently weekly) in aggregate across the portfolio with the IT COO team and report on significant variances (taken from above point)
• Ensure that forecasts are updated corrected in accordance with 1) changes in hiring plans (requires often weekly chasers to teams), 2) changes in direction from the Centre (currently in progress), 3) track total forecast changes and highlight where changes are made without reference to me i.e. today $1.3m was added to the forecast and I’m trawling to establish who and why
• Track headcount from the twice monthly headcount report and investigate changes from the previous version
• Approve requests for new ctools from ISO programme leads by reference to funding availability (on hold for now given the sheer number of open roles)
• Directly related to the above help teams find ctools from the wider pool of existing. Doing this exercise currently with the GPS team.
• Assess the financial impact of change requests. Is funding available? If new headcount is required, is the hiring viable. Work with PMs to optimize forecasts (realistically)
• Annually work with programme teams to prepare their respective budgets for the following year. Seek out duplications and work closely to ensure that financial forecast is correct prior to start of the year and refresh throughout the year based on performance noted above. We have had two significant re-forecasts thus far this year based upon necessary change requests (POL primarily)
• Work with the portfolio team to 1) update the financial demand annually and periodically thereafter with any change requests requiring approval by the PS PDIC.
• Be a central point of contact for all PMs across the programme/globe for all matters finance related

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

To be successful in this role you should have proven experience within the Technology sector with knowledge of the following skills:

• A track record of successful project delivery throughout the entire project lifecycle
• Experience of projects spanning multiple jurisdictions and business areas within an organization
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to negotiate, persuade and influence business decisions at senior management level and presents at Investment Board level
• Strong organization skills, with the ability to manage conflicting deadlines and priorities,
• Able to use judgment and provide sound justification for decisions, tailoring approach to delivery based on experience
• Able to work collaboratively across an organization, building a network of contacts both internally and externally
• Clear communication skills (verbal and written); able to represent the project at governance forums or Boards
• Strong leadership, people management and team building capabilities, with experience of line or matrix management of teams
• IT and Business change management experience gained from successfully managing the organizational, cultural and stakeholder challenges of a transformation project.
• Experience in all aspects of project management including project planning, estimating, budgetary control and RAID management (Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies)
• Experience of delivering projects within the Financial Services sector
• A strong interest in the payments industry and ISO 20022
• Understanding of how Waterfall and Agile methodologies can effectively work together on a programme