Project Manager; Acquisition Integration

Location: Hybrid / Bristol, UK
job type: Permanent / Full-time
Sector and subsector: Business Operations | Project Management
Salary: Competitive salary

Job title:
Project Manager (Acquisition Integration)

Reporting to:
Head of Integration & Technology

Hours:
Full time Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm (37.5 hours per week)

Location:
Bristol
- Hybrid working - must be willing to travel to cover SW, West Midlands and Thames Valley offices

Affinia is the UK’s largest purpose-led, purpose-built Accountancy firm, focused on building stronger, more valuable relationships. With over 1,600 colleagues across the East, South East, London and the Midlands, we are dedicated to supporting our clients, colleagues and communities.

We advise businesses, public sector organisations, charities and individuals throughout the UK and internationally across six Service Lines
- Accountancy & Advisory, Tax and Planning, Audit & Assurance, Corporate Finance, Payroll and Corporate Recovery. Our team also offer in-depth sector expertise across a number of sectors, ensuring our clients receive the best short to medium and long-term advice, tailored to them. We are committed to delivering excellence in every aspect of our work, adapting to the evolving technology and regulatory landscape while consistently exceeding client expectations.

Our people are our most valuable asset. We are therefore committed to supporting our colleagues throughout their professional development, providing guidance and training at whatever stage of their career they join us.

We are seeking a highly organised Project Manager to manage multiple acquisition Integration projects per year. This critical role will be responsible for managing the end-to-end integration planning and execution across people, processes, systems, and data. You will be expected to split your time working on-site at the acquired office sites, working from home and other Affinia offices as required.

You will be working with the Corporate Development team pre deal to support the running of the operational due diligence and build Day 1 Integration plans and priorities. You will then work closely with the Integration Team (Head of Integration, Business Analyst and other Integration Project Managers), Enabling Function leads (People & Culture, IT, Finance, Business Support and Marketing), Head of Services Lines (Accounts, Audit, Tax, Payroll) and key 3 rd party suppliers alongside the acquired business leadership teams to develop, agree and manager the integration and change management plans that create a smooth and efficient end user experience as they go through the change management journey onto the Affinia ways of working, systems and processes.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the post-acquisition integration capability in a dynamic, growing organisation and make a direct impact on strategic business success.

Accountabilities:

Integration Delivery: Develop, monitor and manage the integration plans for each acquired office. Ensure the agreed schedule & resource requirements are aligned with strategic goals and executed on time and within scope. It is expected that this role will own multiple (3-4 live projects) at a time within the portfolio of acquisitions.

Stakeholder Management: Work with internal stakeholders and the acquired business teams to align objectives, ensure critical risks, issues and actions are captured and executed to manage expectations and facilitate collaboration.

Dependency & Constraint Management: Identify and manage cross-functional dependencies, risks, and constraints that may impact the integration timeline or deliverables. Proactively resolve issues and elevate where necessary.

Governance & Reporting: Produce clear progress reporting for the integration governance structures, track key performance metrics, and report on integration status, risks, and progress to executive leadership.

Change Management: Act as a change champion ensuring clear communication, training, and support for teams undergoing transition is in place, mentor and coach others within the business on the importance of the change cycle a newly acquired business will go through.

Standardization & Continuous Improvement: Maintain and develop the integration framework and deliverables, tools, templates, and processes to improve integration efficiency and consistency across all acquisitions, ensuring ongoing improvements are adopted.

Group Project Support: It is expected that this role will also support specific group…