Project Manager - 12-month FTC

Saffery Champness; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

35-hour working week

Hybrid working policy

25 days annual leave

Profit-sharing plan

Private medical

Life assurance

Company car

Job summary

Saffery LLP in London is seeking a Project Manager for a 12-month FTC to lead end-to-end delivery of change projects within the Projects Office. You will define scope, plans, budgets and risks, and manage governance to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery and successful handover to BAU.

You will coordinate sponsors and suppliers, run UAT, manage communications and training, and drive embedding of new systems across the firm, with a focus on change management and value realisation.

Qualifications

• Broad experience delivering projects from inception to completion.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and negotiation skills.
• Experience managing change initiatives and embedding new processes.

Responsibilities

• Project manage various sized projects simultaneously.
• Plan and deliver projects from initiation to BAU handover.
• Conduct business analysis on large initiatives.
• Develop change and communication programmes.
• Coordinate with third-party vendors and manage contracts.
• Produce comprehensive project documentation and risk registers.
• Provide regular management reporting and stakeholder updates.
• Lead project teams and ensure on-time, on-budget delivery.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Change management

Negotiation

Communication

Time management

Job description

Job title: Project Manager - 12-month FTC

Department: Projects Office

Location: London office

Reporting to: Projects Director

Job role

The candidate will be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of change-related projects across Saffery, ensuring projects are planned, managed and delivered in line with the firm’s project management framework and governance standards. Working closely with project sponsors and stakeholders, the role holder will manage projects from initiation and business case through to delivery and transition into business-as-usual (BAU). This includes defining scope, plans, budgets, risks and dependencies, maintaining clear reporting, and ensuring timely escalation where required. The Project Manager will co-ordinate implementation activities throughout the delivery lifecycle, including user acceptance testing and readiness for go-live, and will manage the effective handover to operational teams. A key element of the role is change management, ensuring that impacted stakeholders are engaged, change impacts are understood, communications and training needs are identified, and new systems or processes are embedded successfully across the firm. The role will also involve the management of third-party and outsourced suppliers, ensuring delivery against agreed scope, timelines and contractual obligations, and that suppliers operate in line with Saffery’s standards and controls.

Job responsibilities

• Project manage various sized projects simultaneously.
• Manage projects from planning through to post implementation handover e.g. scoping, project objectives, resource planning, resource management and deliverables execution etc.
• Complete business analysis on large projects.
• Develop change and communication programmes.
• Work with third party vendors to source solutions and implement appropriate support contracts.
• Produce and manage all project documents e.g. project plans, resource requirements, budgets, communications plans, risk registers, etc.
• Effectively manage all key internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide appropriate management reporting.
• Run project meetings with internal and external project teams and suppliers.
• Leading the project team including organisation of the various assigned resources.
• Ensuring project objectives are met and driving deliverables to tight timeframes and budgets.
• Ensuring that at each stage projects are progressing on time, on budget and to the right quality standards.
• Effective change management to ensure that the project is delivered successfully.

Person specification

• A Project Manager with a broad experience of managing projects from inception to completion.
• The ability and confidence to take control of any issues arising.
• A strong balance of assertive and negotiation skills, able to resolve conflict and drive outcomes in challenging circumstances.
• Ability to multi task, prioritise heavy workloads and remain focussed on key delivery targets.
• Ability to deliver large scale change management projects and ensure that that change is embedded into Saffery and that the project can demonstrate the return on investment.
• Works well with others in the team and acts as a role model, setting high standards of quality and demonstrating commitment to self-development. Uses knowledge to support his or her own team and transfers skills in areas of expertise.
• Communicates effectively with people and team members alike, with a high degree of commitment to customer service. Communicates with clarity, sets clear objectives for team members that are aligned to business plans, monitors and assesses performance, providing timely feedback and support as necessary.
• Develops and maintains strong, collaborative relationships with the business, ensuring needs are anticipated, expectations managed, and feedback sought. Takes action to break down ‘silo barriers’, working across disciplines and functions. Well-developed interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrates effective decision making, aligned to business strategies, to satisfy a range of stakeholder needs and overcoming potential barriers, including deadlines and incompleteness of information.
• Demonstrates an ability to analyse and prioritise situations from an operational perspective, including the impact on business operations.
• Selects, analyses and presents information and effectively communicates results.
• Identifies new processes and simplifies practices to improve operational efficiency.
• Demonstrates a commitment to change, implementing and leading change projects within the team, where relevant.
• Promotes the firm’s values and beliefs, demonstrating integrity and maintaining an ethical stance, using flexibility and tact to express views as necessary.
• Flexibility: the applicant must appreciate the occasional need for out of hours and weekend work as well as being in contact out of office hours to support this level of serviceability
• Monitoring contractors and suppliers to ensure guidelines and plans are achieved.
• Highly developed organisational skills including the ability to effectively prioritise and execute tasks.
• Numeracy skills.
• Commercial focus.
• Self-motivated and directed.

Reward & Benefits

• A 35-hour working week with flexibility around the core hours of 10am-4pm
• Agile working policy giving you the option to work from home for up to 3 days per week.
• 25 days annual leave. After 5 years’ service, the entitlement will be increased by 1 day.
• In addition, employees are entitled to buy or sell up to 5 days holiday a year
• Contributory pension scheme (The firm will contribute 5% of salary on a matched basis with employee from their date of joining)
• Life assurance cover of 4 x annual salary,
• Company car as per Managers' Car Scheme. May opt for a company car to the value to £15,100 by sacrificing £3,611 per annum of salary. (Pro-rata for lower vehicle cost).
• Eligibility for the firm’s Profit-Sharing Plan that runs from October to September each year. The scheme enables staff to share in the profits of the firm. Payment is usually c£1,000. Paid in December.
• New client referral scheme. Members of staff introducing a new client to the firm, have the potential to receive a referral payment of up to 10% of the first year’s total fees.
• Eligibility for the discretionary bonus scheme. This is based on both individual performance and firm performance.
• Private Medical - entitled to join on successful completion of probationary period
• Staff have access to health assessments, cancer screenings and health cash plans through the flexible benefits programme.
• Access to a number of additional benefits with preferential rates under the flexible benefit programme, health cash plans, health screening/GP support, critical illness cover, dental and travel insurance, Techscheme, Cyclescheme, Gymflex and a Workplace ISA.

The organisation

Saffery LLP is an adviser to individuals and businesses across a range of sectors, providing market‑leading accountancy, audit, business advisory, tax and VAT services. Founded in 1855 by Joseph John Saffery, it is currently the 15th largest accountancy firm by UK fee income.

We pride ourselves on our informal and inclusive culture, building an environment where people can be themselves and enjoy challenging, interesting, rewarding careers.

When you work with Saffery, the well‑respected accountancy firm where heritage meets ambition, you work with people who know your name. Who know you as a human being, not just a job title. Everyone belongs here. Always.

Saffery is a proud member of Nexia, a leading, global network of independent accounting and consulting firms.