Head of Finance Projects

About Equals

Equals is the next-generation global money movement platform built for exceptional businesses operating across borders. We bring international payments, embedded finance, and more together into a single connection that simplifies operations and strengthens financial control. With deep expertise and integrated infrastructure, Equals turns financial complexity into reliable solutions.

With our headquarters in London and teams around the UK and Europe, you will join a very close-knit, talented and supportive team from various backgrounds who believe that bringing different perspectives together helps us understand our customers' needs. United, by one thing, making money management straightforward and cost-effective for our customers.

Equals Money is a fast-growing, regulated payments business on a mission to make money movement simple. As Head of Finance Projects you will own the Finance function's change portfolio end-to-end - every project currently in flight and every project still to come that impacts Finance - and be personally accountable for landing the finance deliverables on time, in scope, and with the benefits actually realised.

This role is the finance champion for continuous improvement and responsible for the delivery of both Finance's own projects and the finance parts of broader strategic projects — covering data and data visualisation, adoption of AI, systems improvements or implementation, automation, operating model change, process redesign, and the work streams that support capital raising and M&A, together with ad-hoc project work.

This is the linchpin role between Finance and the rest of the business to make change happen within Finance. You will sit at the point where Finance meets Engineering, Product and Data, translating what those teams need from Finance and what Finance needs from them.

Reporting to the Group Corporate Finance Director, this is a hands-on delivery role for someone who is equally comfortable in the detail and leading change, and who is prepared to chase, challenge and unblock until things are done.

• Quality assure and drive the Finance function's delivery of deal readiness, ensuring the systems, data and processes behind the data room can produce three years back and five years forward on demand.
• Support M&A, integration and debt financing activity with diligence project management, data gathering and workstream coordination, working to the Group Finance Director, the Group Corporate Finance Director, the Head of FP&A, the Head of Management Accounting and the Head of Financial Reporting.
• Coordinate finance integration work streams following acquisitions - chart of accounts, systems, reporting and process alignment.
• Support the preparation of information for lenders, advisors and shareholders where project delivery or finance transformation forms part of the story

• Own the Finance project portfolio in its entirety - maintaining a single, prioritised view of all ongoing and future initiatives across FP&A, financial control, treasury, reconciliations, reporting and transactional finance.
• Drive delivery of the One Finance target operating model, including the transition of activities between the centres of excellence, ensuring individual projects move the function towards it rather than entrenching current ways of working.
• Sequence and resource the portfolio realistically around month-end, year-end, audit and regulatory reporting cycles so delivery does not compete with business-as-usual.
• Establish and run a simple, proportionate governance rhythm: business cases, prioritisation, stage gates, RAID logs and a regular portfolio review with the Group Corporate Finance Director and the Finance leadership team.
• Define scope, success criteria and measurable benefits for each project before work starts, and track realisation of those benefits after go-live.
• Build the business case for each project to the same standard FP&A applies to any investment - NPV, IRR, payback and breakeven - so that finance change competes for capital on the same evidence as everything else, and so that claimed benefits can be tested after go-live.
• Own project budgets, tracking spend against approved business cases and flagging variances early.
• Report clearly and honestly on progress, risks, dependencies and slippage - escalating early with options and a recommendation rather than presenting problems.