Project Manager - Finance

Overview

Expleo is seeking a talented Project Manager with a strong finance background, ideally with consulting experience, to join our team and play a key role in an exciting new programme to establish a retail bank from the ground up. This is a highly visible, client‑facing role lead a finance‑led transformation within a regulated environment.

You will work closely with senior client stakeholders, internal delivery teams, and third‑party partners to deliver end‑to‑end change, ensuring business and financial operations are fully prepared for go‑live for the new retail bank.

Responsibilities

Project Manage the delivery of a greenfield retail bank setup programme, with responsibility for establishing robust financial operations.
Ensure full finance operational readiness for new entity go‑live, including:
Accounts receivable and payable
Financial controlling and accounting
Treasury, tax, VAT, and financial modelling
Build and maintain detailed project plans, ensuring alignment with overall programme objectives.
Identify, manage, and mitigate Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies.
Monitor project budgets, ensuring cost-effective delivery.
Provide regular status updates to stakeholders, highlighting progress, risks, and issues.
Ensure all deliverables meet the required quality standards.
Work closely with existing finance teams, extending and enabling their capabilities to support the new retail bank entity, ensuring appropriate processes, controls, and reporting are in place.
Collaborate with third‑party suppliers to agree financial processes, requirements, and data transfer arrangements.
Provide strong stakeholder management, guiding finance and business colleagues through organisational and process change

Qualifications

Desirable

Certifications:

Financial qualification, MAPM, Scrum Master, PMP, Prince2

Essential skills

Strong understanding of the finance operating model within a large corporate
Excellent client-facing skills
Strong understanding of Waterfall methodologies

Experience of working as part of a team in large deployments
People management skills - the ability to lead and focus teams in complex projects
Desire to continue to build domain knowledge- process, tools, applications, platforms
Microsoft Project

Experience

Experience of leading large scale financial change projects
Experience leading Waterfall projects

Experience with in the automotive industry is desirable but not essential

Experience of setting up a retail bank is desirable but not essential

What do I need before I apply

The expectation is that you will be able to work on client site in Buckinghamshire 1-2 days per week or as the programme requires.
Fluency in English is required to effectively communicate with clients.

Benefits

Collaborative working environment - we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges
We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
Competitive company benefits
Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo  

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Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
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Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people"We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age".

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive