Finance Project Manager

Project Manager / Business Process Manager

Location: Reading

Duration: 12 months +

Stanton House are working with A Manufacturing Business who are looking for a Project Manager / Business Process Manager to support a major business transformation programme. This is a business-facing role, focused on delivery from the organisation side rather than as a purely IT-led project.

The programme will span multiple work streams, engage a large and diverse stakeholder group across locations, and run over a multi-year period. The successful candidate will play a critical role in coordinating delivery, ensuring alignment, and driving progress across complex and interdependent initiatives.

• Coordinate and manage business-side programme delivery across multiple work streams
• Drive stakeholder engagement and alignment across a broad and diverse user base
• Lead and support change management activities to ensure successful adoption
• Maintain oversight of risks, issues, and action tracking
  , ensuring timely resolution
• Deliver effective communication and reporting across all levels of the business
• Support requirements gathering, documentation, and validation
• Facilitate process mapping and design activities
• Collaborate with system integrators (SI) to define business requirements for build
• Assist in testing coordination and execution
• Support waterfall delivery processes from requirements through to implementation
• Provide additional functional analyst-style support where required

The transformation programme currently includes two primary work streams:

• Designing and implementing new processes from the ground up
• Driving simplification and standardisation
• Coordinating closely with other work streams
• Navigating complex stakeholder environments and internal dynamics

• Delivering structured, data-driven reporting solutions
• Leveraging outputs from ERP transformation calculations
• Working within a more rule-based, data-centric environment

• Reporting into and working closely with the business leadership team
• Partnering with the Head of FP&A and wider programme leadership
• Supporting a blended team of:
• Backfilled business SMEs
• Project-focused contributors
• Change and testing specialists
• Additional functional analyst support may also form part of the wider team

• Proven experience as a Business Project Manager within complex programmes
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal and influencing abilities
• Experience managing risks, issues, and delivery actions
• Ability to operate in a dynamic, multi-stream environment
• Strong organisational and administrative capability
• Experience with EPM (Enterprise Performance Management) projects
• Exposure to finance, ERP, or transformation programmes
• Background in business process design and improvement
• Experience performing functional analyst responsibilities

We are looking for someone who is:

• Pragmatic, flexible, and delivery-focused
• Comfortable working in complex, evolving environments
• Able to build strong relationships and manage sensitivities
• Equally confident in structure and adaptability
• Focused on driving outcomes rather than rigidly following process