Finance Transformation Lead |PMP | PMO exp |Finance + IT|150k

Current looking for a finance & IT expert responsible for overseeing the financial planning, budgeting, and governance of IT investments within the organization. This role ensures that IT projects and portfolios align with strategic business objectives while maintaining financial discipline, cost transparency, and value realization.

Responsibilities:

• Establish a framework to effectively oversight the IT Change Investment Budget – including actuals reporting, forecast challenge and assurance, and tracking of financial risks and opportunities
• Work in partnership with Value Stream Portfolio Leads to develop the single version of truth for the IT Change Investment Budget financial performance
• Provide transparent insight into the IT Investment Portfolio’s financial performance to IT Leadership, recommending mitigations to risks, options to re-invest budget surplus as appropriate and drive accountability across the Senior Leadership Team – working closely with key stakeholders (Strategy & Planning, IT Business Management and Finance)
• Work closely with the IT Business Management department and the Club’s Finance function to continuously improve and automate finance processes – with a strong drive towards the removal of manual processes
• Provide independent financial assurance on Value Stream and Project-level Business Cases – driving a positive cultural change that focuses on value-for money-outcomes
• Improve financial management capabilities within the Value Stream delivery teams through training and coaching – seeking to enhance knowledge associated with budgeting, cost, and financial risk management
• Lead, coached and mentor a small team of finance professionals who are responsible for the management and integrity of Value Stream financials

Requirements:

• A degree from an accredited university is preferred, with relevant Finance or Accountancy qualifications such as CA, CPA, CIMA
• At least 10+ years of experience in financial management roles, with a large portion of this served in a change portfolio or large programme environment
• Demonstrable management experience in a Finance or PMO team
• Strong understanding and hands-on experience in lean portfolio management practices (SaFE, LSS) are preferable
• Professional programme management or agile certification (e.g., Project Management Professional, Prince2, Scrum or similar) is also desirable
• Effective communicator to varying levels of stakeholders on a verbal and written basis, with the ability to convey complex financial messages to non-finance professionals, at summary and detailed levels
• Able to maintain focus on the “bigger picture” strategic mindset, whilst understanding the detail with accuracy
• Highly collaborative and able to balance assertiveness with corporation
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills through all levels of the organisation
• English proficiency (written and spoken)
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Suite - particularly Excel and PowerPoint
• Knowledge of Excel Macros and VBA is a plus