Finance Projects Lead

The Consultancy Group are currently recruiting a Finance Projects Lead role for a FTSE Listed Retail business based in London. Reporting into the Head of Finance Projects this role will lead, support and manage all finance and company-wide projects. The Finance Project Lead will review all project risks and priorities in line with the company's fast pace and constantly changing environment and manage and challenge contributions from all project stakeholders.

Key responsibilities include:

* Lead and manage a diverse range of finance projects in areas such as financial control, reporting, process improvement, team integration and systems integration

* Represent finance by leading and supporting major company-wide projects that stretch across multiple departments

* Produce and maintain project plans and reporting including spend against budgets

* Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across the business

* Undertake continuous project risk management and early communication risks/issues

* Ability to see and communicate risks/issues before they become a reality

* Provide continuous project priority reviews

* Apply crucial time and deadline management to all projects

* Provide regular reporting and technical project management support to the Head of Finance Projects

* Utilise Finance Projects Analyst effectively for business analysis and documentation to ensure projects can be delivered effectively to agreed specification

* Work with and build strong relationships with all colleagues within the finance team

* Lead an ongoing company-wide move to Agile project management techniques

This newly created role requires a candidate with a proven track record of managing successful large projects. They will have experience of building cross-departmental stakeholder relationships and of working in a fast-paced business environment. They will have system change project experience as well as finance project management experience.