Job Type:
Contractor
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Business Planning Project Manager
Reporting to: Group Functions Head of Change
9mth day rate contract (inside IR35)
Must have experience project managing Finance Change, in particular with Business Planning & Forecasting processes (FP&A).
About the Project
We are running an Enterprise-wide project to significantly enhance the end-to-end Business Planning and Forecasting process. Our goal is to help enable Hiscox to achieve its strategic ambitions by significantly enhancing and simplifying all aspects of the Business Planning (incl. Forecasting) end-to-end experience (Processes, Tooling and People).
The Project will significantly reduce the amount of manual effort and off-line tooling that takes place delivering higher levels of automation and process improvement including quicker run times, not only changing the experience for Group FP&A but also the Business Finance Teams.
The Role:
The high-level scope and project plan will already be in place and the project will have kicked-off at the time you join, so you will need to be ready to take on the high-level project plan and quickly develop and own a more detailed plan and hit the ground running.
You will work closely with the Project Business lead and business analyst to ensure effective delivery of objectives and tight management of timelines.
What you’ll be doing as Project Manager:
- Taking the project from a high-level plan on a page and scope definition to a much more granular and detailed scope, requirements and project plan
- Working closely with senior stakeholders and the project team to execute against the project plan
- Coordinating engagement of and input from a variety of key stakeholders to execute including but not limited to:
- Project Business lead
- Group and Business unit FP&A teams
- CFOs and Finance Teams
- Technology Teams
- and Business the Group Head of FP&A, CFO, Group Financial Controller, and other senior stakeholders.
- Understand, communicate and manage/mitigate major risks and issues associated with the delivery of the project.
- Manage and run any required project meetings.
- Ensure key stakeholders, internally and externally, are aware of what is required and when.
- Engage and ensure input from multiple sources and to a variety of senior stakeholders.
- Regularly report progress to Group Functions Head of Change and other stakeholders as needed.
Our must-haves:
- A track record of managing finance change projects including detailed project planning and management, across people, process and systems.
- Experience working in Finance, in particular with Business Planning & Forecasting Processes
- Experience working with Finance Transformation
- Demonstrable delivery of fast-paced projects with tight deadlines.
- Demonstrable stakeholder management and engagement planning to Executive level.
- Experience of working in a fast-paced and complex Financial Services organisation.
Our desirables:
- Experience working in Insurance.
About Hiscox
As an international specialist insurer we are far removed from the world of mass market insurance products. Instead we are selective and focus on our key areas of expertise and strength - all of which is underpinned by a culture that encourages us to challenge convention and always look for a better way of doing things.
We insure the unique and the interesting. And we search for the same when it comes to talented people. Hiscox is full of smart, reliable human beings that look out for customers and each other. We believe in doing the right thing, making good and rebuilding when things go wrong. Everyone is encouraged to think creatively, challenge the status quo and look for solutions.
Scratch beneath the surface and you will find a business that is solid, but slightly contrary. We like to do things differently and constantly seek to evolve. We might have been around for a long time (our roots go back to 1901), but we are young in many ways, ambitious and going places.
Some people might say insurance is dull, but life at Hiscox is anything but. If that sounds good to you, get in touch.
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