Hybrid Project Manager – Finance Change

at Pension Insurance Corporation plc

• Job title: Project Manager – Finance Change
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Project Manager delivering Finance transformation initiatives at Pension Insurance Corporation. Leading complex projects in a hybrid working environment and collaborating with stakeholders for successful outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the full project lifecycle across Finance‑focused change initiatives, ensuring clarity of scope, disciplined planning, and measurable outcomes.
• Partner with Finance, Actuarial and Change stakeholders to ensure ambitions are aligned, understood, and proactively managed.
• Provide structured, reliable, and timely reporting to the PMO and governance forums, ensuring transparency and early escalation of risks, issues, and decisions.
• Define project objectives, target operating models, and end‑state deliverables, ensuring alignment with PIC strategy, regulatory obligations, and industry best practice.
• Build and maintain detailed project plans including milestones, dependencies, resource allocations, vendor activities, and critical decision points.
• Manage internal teams, external vendors, and consulting partners across multi‑workstream environments, maintaining accountability for delivery quality and standards.
• Ensure rigorous control, documentation, and auditability across all project phases, consistent with PIC’s governance expectations.

Requirements

• Proven track record of delivering complex Finance change within Financial Services (insurance strongly preferred), involving Finance, Actuarial, Regulatory Reporting, or Capital teams.
• Strong familiarity with IFRS frameworks (ideally IFRS17), Solvency II, PRA/FCA regulatory expectations, and the dependencies between actuarial processes and Finance outcomes.
• Demonstrated success in programmes involving actuarial model change, reporting transformation, ledger and sub‑ledger implementations, data modernisation, or Finance technology upgrades.
• Deep working knowledge of Finance operating models, Finance processes, and Finance systems within a regulated Financial Services environment.
• Experience delivering Finance/Actuarial applications or platforms, ideally involving vendor products or cloud‑enabled technologies.
• Strong understanding of structured change methodologies and controls, with the discipline to apply them consistently.
• Ideal: Qualified accountant or actuary, or equivalent professional Finance/Actuarial background.
• High personal accountability — delivers on commitments, follows through, and drives actions to conclusion.
• Ability to influence and challenge stakeholders at all levels, including senior Finance and Actuarial leaders.
• Exceptional organisational discipline and attention to detail, with proven ability to meet deadlines in a complex delivery environment.
• Strong stakeholder and sponsor engagement capability, building trusted relationships across Finance, Actuarial, Risk, Technology, Architecture and external partners.
• Commercial judgment and the ability to balance regulatory, financial, and operational priorities.
• Works effectively within structured governance and defined procedures, while proactively identifying improvements and efficiencies.

Benefits

• In addition to a competitive base salary and the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan, upon joining us here at Pension Insurance Corporation, you will get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 28 days' annual leave (excluding bank holidays), study support with qualifications, a generous pension scheme and much more.