Finance-led Technology Project Manager (Senior Consultant)
Job Title: Finance-led Technology Project Manager (Senior Consultant)
Location: City of London - onsite 3 days per week
Duration: Fixed Term Contract - 6 months
Salary: Dependent on experience
Start: ASAP
At Pace, our consultants genuinely care about the impact our work has on our customers and their customers alike. We are 'problem solvers' who call on our collective experience, knowledge and skills to support customers to access benefits early.
Our mission is to create environments that thrive for our customers; we enable this by providing transformation, process optimisation, and automation services, all with the aim of enabling our customers to harness human autonomy.
We are reimagining how transformation services are delivered, taking a human-centred approach, and our work is having a material impact on people's lives. If this resonates with you, we would love to hear from you.
Role
Supporting one of our Legal Services customers in Central London, you will join us as an experienced Project Manager to lead two high-profile, technology-enabled Finance initiatives.
The role will take ownership of a global E-Invoicing project, ensuring that statutory inbound and outbound invoicing requirements are delivered across in-scope offices within mandatory deadlines. It will also support the Revenue Life Cycle Technology and Tools programme, delivering solutions that help Finance teams reduce billing costs and cycle times.
This is a complex, cross-functional delivery role involving Technology, Finance, Tax, local offices, SAP programme teams and third-party vendors. The successful candidate will bring strong governance, structured planning and the ability to maintain momentum across multiple regional implementations.
You will be an experienced Project Manager who combines structured delivery discipline with sound, pragmatic judgement. Comfortable operating across business and technology teams, you will be able to create clarity in a complex environment, build alignment among senior stakeholders and suppliers, and keep regional delivery on track against mandatory statutory deadlines.
Responsibilities of the Project Manager include
- Owning and maintaining the integrated E-Invoicing project plan, covering regional milestones, statutory deadlines, testing, deployment and post-go-live warranty periods.
- Coordinating Technology, Finance, Tax, local office, vendor and SAP programme workstreams.
- Managing project governance, including Project Board reporting, RAID management, approvals, change control, escalations and exception reporting.
- Tracking scope, budget and resources, ensuring that impacts on timescales, requirements and cost are assessed and managed through the appropriate governance routes.
- Driving requirements confirmation, design approval, build readiness, test planning, UAT, deployment readiness and service transition.
- Working with Finance and change stakeholders to assess process impacts and coordinate communications, training and operational readiness.
- Managing engagement with external vendors, including delivery coordination, statement-of-work activity and issue escalation.
- Maintaining complete, controlled and audit-ready project documentation that can be reused for future implementations.
- Supporting the delivery and acceptance of technology-enabled tools for the Revenue Life Cycle programme
The successful Project Manager will be able to demonstrate the following experience and capabilities
- Proven experience of managing complex, technology-enabled business change projects involving multiple business, technology and supplier stakeholders.
- Strong project planning, governance, financial tracking, RAID management and senior stakeholder reporting capability.
- Excellent communication, facilitation and stakeholder-management skills.
- The ability to translate technical, regulatory and process considerations into clear delivery actions.
- Experience coordinating requirements, design approval, testing, UAT, deployment readiness and service transition across multiple implementations.
- Strong organisation and attention to detail, with the ability to maintain documentation suitable for audit and governance.
- A pragmatic delivery style and the confidence to maintain momentum against fixed deadlines while managing scope, budget, risk and dependencies.
- Focused on Delivery: A practical approach to maintaining momentum, following through on agreed actions and ensuring established priorities are delivered consistently.
- Strong Multitasker: The ability to manage multiple governance cycles, reporting requirements and portfolio activities simultaneously.
- Confident Communicator: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with Project Managers, senior stakeholders and governance forums.
- Proactive Ownership: A willingness to take responsibility for the accuracy, timeliness and quality of portfolio information.
- Attention to Detail: Strong organisational skills and a disciplined approach to maintaining records, tracking actions and managing documentation.
- Team Player: A collaborative working style and a genuine interest in supporting Project Managers and colleagues to achieve shared outcomes.
- Adaptable: The ability to operate effectively during organisational change while maintaining stability, consistency and high standards.
- Solution-Focused: A pragmatic approach to resolving issues and improving delivery without introducing unnecessary complexity or bureaucracy.
- Stakeholder Management: The confidence to build productive relationships and follow up actions appropriately in a complex delivery environment.
- Microsoft 365 Capability: Competence using standard Microsoft 365 applications, including Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
Desirable
- Experience of delivering complex projects in a Legal or Professional Services environment
- Experience delivering SAP-related projects or working with Finance systems and integrations.
- Experience of projects involving regulatory deadlines or statutory compliance requirements.
- Delivery experience in a hybrid Agile and Waterfall environment.
- Knowledge of testing governance, service transition, operational readiness and post-go-live warranty management.
- Experience working with Finance, Tax, SAP programme teams and external technology vendors.
- Previous exposure to e-invoicing, statutory invoicing mandates or global Finance process transformation.
- A recognised project-management qualification, although substantial equivalent experience will also be considered.
What's in it for you?
- *Personal development focus with annual appraisals, development plans, and bi-weekly coaching conversations.*
- *Access to a personal training budget (subject to approval).*
Compensation and Benefits include
- 25 days' annual leave, plus Bank Holidays and an extra day for your birthday
- Option to purchase up to 10 additional days of leave per year*
- AVIVA workplace pension scheme
- Save 30-60% on an electric car through The Electric Car Scheme*
- Cycle to Work Scheme*
- Access to Paces APM Corporate Partner benefits
- ADS Group Reward benefits
- One paid day off to volunteer*
- Enhanced Maternity Leave, Paternity Leave
- Work from Abroad policy
- Regular company and team events
- Reservist leave: up to 10 days paid
* Please note that some benefits are for permanent employees only
Your Pace team
Harnessing Human Autonomy means putting human needs at the heart of system and process design.
At Pace, we help organisations align technology with human behaviour - designing systems that empower people, automate the routine, and unlock greater efficiency and innovation.
Imagine if... you worked for a company that has integrity at its core and truly values its people, social responsibility, and the real-world impact of its work.
We recognise that we are only as good as our people.
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