Interim IT Project Manager

Global Accounting Network are partnering exclusively with an international client specifically supporting the IT Transformation workstream. The interim IT Project Manager will provide dedicated leadership across a significant portfolio of technology-related activity, including IT outsourcing, application rationalisation, system dependency validation, and transition/cutover planning.

The IT Project Manager will coordinate internal teams and external vendors, maintain delivery discipline, and ensure all IT workstreams remain aligned to the overall programme plan.

Key Responsibilities:

Workstream Leadership

• Lead the end-to-end IT Transformation workstream delivery
• Own the IT workstream plan and ensure alignment with the overall programme timeline, dependencies, and milestones.
• Maintain delivery discipline through structured governance, RAID management, and escalation.

IT Outsourcing Initiative

• Manage the IT outsourcing transition including:
• Vendor coordination and mobilisation
• Contract alignment and service scope definition
• Service transition planning and operational handover
• Ensure vendor delivery commitments, timelines, and transition readiness are met.

Application Rationalisation & System Landscape

• Manage the application rationalisation process, ensuring systems are:
• Assessed and prioritised
• Consolidated or migrated where appropriate
• Decommissioned in line with programme objectives
• Coordinate technical validation of system dependencies, constraints, and integration impacts.

Planning, Governance & Reporting

• Develop, maintain and track detailed IT delivery plans including:
• Provide structured reporting on:
• Progress, risks, issues, actions, decisions
• Mitigation plans and early warnings
• Support preparation of business cases, technical assessments, and decision papers for SteerCo / ExCo.

Collaboration & Delivery Support

• Facilitate workshops, technical reviews and planning sessions with IT leadership and vendor partners.
• Ensure IT changes are delivered with minimal disruption to BAU operations.

Ideal Candidate:

• Proven track record delivering complex IT projects within large-scale transformation programmes.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience leading IT outsourcing transitions
• Strong project management capability: planning, scheduling, RAID, reporting.
• Deep understanding of IT outsourcing models, vendor management, and service transition.
• Experience managing application rationalisation
• Experience operating within structured governance frameworks, including SteerCo/ExCo reporting.