Finance Project Manager

Syme Drummond; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Syme Drummond, in partnership with LearnPro Group, is seeking a Finance Manager for a dynamic technology company in Edinburgh. This role involves financial modelling, project delivery, and supporting strategic decision-making during a period of growth and acquisitions.

The ideal candidate will have strong Excel skills and extensive experience leading finance-led projects in a fast-paced environment. Join a supportive team to make a significant impact and drive positive change.

If interested, please apply or reach out to [e-mail].

Qualifications

• 5+ years of strong financial modelling experience in an SME or PE-backed environment.
• Experience with ERP integrations and systems implementations.
• Comfortable leading projects and managing stakeholders across departments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain complex financial models for forecasting and budgeting.
• Lead finance projects such as NetSuite integration and process improvements.
• Collaborate with various teams to drive project deliverables and improvements.

Skills

Strong financial modelling experience

Strong stakeholder management skills

Expert Excel skills

Experience leading finance projects

Agility and adaptability in a fast-paced business

Job description

We're delighted to be exclusively partnering with LearnPro Group to recruit a Finance Manager to join their growing, PE-backed technology business.

This is not a traditional Finance Manager role.

If you're looking for a role focused primarily on month-end reporting, managing a finance team and producing accounts, this probably isn't the opportunity for you.

Instead, this role sits at the heart of a fast-growing business where you'll combine financial modelling, finance transformation and project delivery, helping support growth, acquisitions and strategic decision-making across the Group.

You’ll inherit and develop existing Excel-based financial models covering forecasting, budgeting, business planning and commercial scenario analysis, with the ability to build new models where needed. Alongside this, you’ll lead finance-led projects including NetSuite integration for acquired businesses, timesheet/resource tracking implementation, HubSpot and NetSuite integration, data reconciliation and wider process improvement initiatives.

What makes this opportunity particularly exciting is the exposure you'll gain to a business that is actively growing through acquisition, with potential for further M&A activity already on the horizon.

We're looking for someone who enjoys getting stuck in. A doer.

Someone comfortable rolling their sleeves up, driving projects forward and working across the business to get things done. You'll need to be equally comfortable building financial models as you are speaking to stakeholders across Operations, Sales and Senior Leadership teams.

The ideal person will come from an SME or PE-backed environment and understand the realities of working in a fast-paced business where priorities can change quickly.

Required experience:

• Strong financial modelling experience, including forecasting, budgeting, scenario planning and commercial analysis.
• Experience leading finance projects such as systems implementations, ERP integrations, process improvements or acquisition integration activity.
• Expert Excel skills and the ability to build, adapt and maintain complex financial models.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to work across Finance, Operations, Sales and Senior Leadership teams, communicating effectively with non-technical audiences.
• Experience within a growing SME, technology, software or PE-backed environment where agility and pace are essential.
• Are comfortable working with ambiguity and changing priorities.
• Can see the bigger picture without getting lost in unnecessary detail.
• Take ownership and initiative rather than waiting for direction.

You’ll join a collaborative and supportive team led by a Finance Director who believes in giving people autonomy, trusting them to do their jobs and encouraging them to bring ideas and improvements to the table.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who wants visibility, ownership and the chance to make a genuine impact within a growing business.

If you are interested in finding out more, please apply now or reach out to [e-mail]

This role is a retained partnership between LearnPro Group and Syme Drummond; all unsolicited CVs will be passed to Kelsie.