Finance Project Manager
Project Manager / Business Process Manager
Location: Reading
Contract Type: Day Rate, £700/£800 Inside IR35
Duration: 12 months +
Role Overview
Stanton House are working with A Manufacturing Business who are looking for a Project Manager / Business Process Manager to support a major business transformation programme. This is a business-facing role, focused on delivery from the organisation side rather than as a purely IT-led project.
The programme will span multiple workstreams, engage a large and diverse stakeholder group across locations, and run over a multi-year period. The successful candidate will play a critical role in coordinating delivery, ensuring alignment, and driving progress across complex and interdependent initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate and manage business-side programme delivery across multiple workstreams
- Drive stakeholder engagement and alignment across a broad and diverse user base
- Lead and support change management activities to ensure successful adoption
- Maintain oversight of risks, issues, and action tracking, ensuring timely resolution
- Deliver effective communication and reporting across all levels of the business
- Support requirements gathering, documentation, and validation
- Facilitate process mapping and design activities
- Collaborate with system integrators (SI) to define business requirements for build
- Assist in testing coordination and execution
- Support waterfall delivery processes from requirements through to implementation
- Provide additional functional analyst-style support where required
Programme Scope
The transformation programme currently includes two primary workstreams:
1. Budgeting & Forecasting (Greenfield)
- Designing and implementing new processes from the ground up
- Driving simplification and standardisation
- Coordinating closely with other workstreams
- Navigating complex stakeholder environments and internal dynamics
2. Reporting
- Delivering structured, data-driven reporting solutions
- Leveraging outputs from ERP transformation calculations
- Working within a more rule-based, data-centric environment
Team Structure
- Reporting into and working closely with the business leadership team
- Partnering with the Head of FP&A and wider programme leadership
- Supporting a blended team of:
- Backfilled business SMEs
- Project-focused contributors
- Change and testing specialists
- Additional functional analyst support may also form part of the wider team
Skills & Experience
Essential:
- Proven experience as a Business Project Manager within complex programmes
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal and influencing abilities
- Experience managing risks, issues, and delivery actions
- Ability to operate in a dynamic, multi-stream environment
- Strong organisational and administrative capability
- Experience with EPM (Enterprise Performance Management) projects
- Exposure to finance, ERP, or transformation programmes
- Background in business process design and improvement
- Experience performing functional analyst responsibilities
What We’re Looking For
We are looking for someone who is:
- Pragmatic, flexible, and delivery-focused
- Comfortable working in complex, evolving environments
- Able to build strong relationships and manage sensitivities
- Equally confident in structure and adaptability
- Focused on driving outcomes rather than rigidly following process