Project Manager – Finance Transformation & Business Readiness

Project Manager – Finance Transformation & Business Readiness

London (Remote)

£600 - £700

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm Specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector, we power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication in delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to support a large-scale finance transformation and operational separation initiative within a regulated financial services environment.

This role will act as a key interface between Finance and Actuarial business teams and the wider programme, ensuring that business requirements, constraints, and readiness activities are effectively captured, managed, and delivered in line with key milestones.

The role:

• Act as the primary interface between Finance / Actuarial stakeholders and the wider programme delivery teams

• Lead the capture, validation, and management of business requirements, ensuring alignment to agreed scope and continuity needs

• Drive business readiness activities, including supporting the definition and sign-off of readiness criteria and acceptance measures

• Ensure engagement with the right business stakeholders, including SMEs and decision-makers, with clear ownership and accountability

• Identify and manage risks, issues, and dependencies, ensuring timely escalation with clear impact assessment and mitigation options

• Work closely with delivery and technical teams to align on approach, sequencing, and cutover planning

• Support operational transition planning, ensuring minimal disruption to BAU activities

• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder sessions to define processes, requirements, and business impacts

• Provide structured input into governance, reporting, and RAID management, clearly representing the business perspective

• Collaborate with communications teams to ensure clear and timely messaging of impacts to Finance and Actuarial communities

• Identify and document process improvement or transformation opportunities, ensuring these are appropriately assessed and managed

Key Skills and Experience:

To succeed in this role you will need:

• Proven experience as a Project Manager within financial services, ideally supporting finance or actuarial functions

• Strong experience delivering business change, transformation, or migration initiatives

• Demonstrated ability to manage business readiness, operational change, and stakeholder engagement

• Experience working in regulated environments, with an understanding of risk, governance, and control frameworks

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage effectively across business and technology teams

• Experience managing RAID logs, dependencies, and programme reporting

• Ability to operate in complex, fast-paced environments with multiple workstreams and competing priorities

Desirable Experience

• Experience supporting divestment, separation, or integration programmes

• Exposure to policy administration systems or large-scale platform migrations

• Experience working with outsourced service providers or BPO transitions

• Familiarity with Finance and/or Actuarial processes within insurance or financial services

• Background as a Business Analyst or hybrid PM/BA, with strong requirements and process mapping capability

Our people 

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working and as your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle.

We pride ourselves on;

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.

• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.

• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model

• Investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development

• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise

• Providing an transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and build lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction

• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs

• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation

Interested?

At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds.

If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately, our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals that are looking to further their career and explore their full potential. 

“emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin”