Process Capability Lead: CPI & Change Delivery

AVEVA; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits

Emergency leave days

Adoption leave

28 days annual leave plus bank_holiday

Pension

Life cover

Private medical insurance

Parental leave

Education assistance program

Job summary

AVEVA is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead Process Capability and CPI initiatives within Finance Operations. You will oversee governance, prioritisation, and delivery of CPI opportunities across people, data, process and technology, coordinating with cross-functional teams and Process Improvement stakeholders.

Based in Cambridge or London with hybrid working, the role focuses on ensuring initiatives align with strategic goals and deliver measurable improvements, while potentially

Qualifications

• Essential: Project management methods, tools and implementation.
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Communication and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies.
• Additional MS Office applications - MS Project Online and MS Planner.
• Highly Desirable: Knowledge of end-to-end Finance Processes and KPIs.
• Experience in MS Office applications - SharePoint, Power Automate and Power BI.
• Knowledge of Process Documentation - SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures)

Responsibilities

• Project Management: Ensure the CPI activities and assigned projects have clear requirements, defined scope, resources, budget (where required) and a detailed plan to deliver to the in alignment with the Finance Operations strategic goals and prioritises.
• Project Governance: Support the management of the CPI governance to monitor project progress, mitigate risks, resolve issues, and make timely decisions. Ensuring roles and responsibilities, decision-making processes, and escalation paths are adhered to.
• Stakeholder Management: Engage and collaborate with stakeholders at various levels, including senior leadership, function heads, and cross-functional teams. Build strong relationships and establish effective communication channels. Understand stakeholder needs, expectations, and concerns. Ensure stakeholder engagement and alignment.
• Process Improvement: Supporting the Process Owners and Process Analysts, to properly evaluate all new requests for change and effectively communicate and engage with the originator and other interested parties. Working with Process Improvement team to ensure MS Planners and the PI Log are regularly maintained and can be communicated as required to all stakeholders. All items have a clear audit trail and sign off process to confirm outcomes have been agreed and achieved.
• Project Delivery: Working with the solution delivery teams to ensure the execution and delivery of all CPI activities and assigned projects to agreed deadlines. Ensuring that we have appropriate deployment plans (MS Projects), change impact assessments, training needs, Communications and process documentation updated accordingly.
• Change Management: Support the change management strategies defined to drive adoption and ensure smooth transitions during CPI implementation.
• KIPs (Key Performance Indicators): Managing the monthly collection of data from Process Leads for KIPs, updating the SharePoint data, analyse the output, manage the summaries with the process leads and publish.

Skills

Project management

Analytical problem solving

Communication

Continuous improvement

MS Project Online

MS Planner

MS Office

SharePoint

Power Automate

Power BI

KPI tracking

Tools

MS Project Online

MS Planner

SharePoint

Power Automate

Power BI

Job description

AVEVA is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead Process Capability and CPI initiatives within Finance Operations. You will oversee governance, prioritisation, and delivery of CPI opportunities across people, data, process and technology, coordinating with cross-functional teams and Process Improvement stakeholders.

Based in Cambridge or London with hybrid working, the role focuses on ensuring initiatives align with strategic goals and deliver measurable improvements, while potentially