STO Finance Lead

PIC is looking for a finance professional with experience working in Change functions.

The role sits within PIC's central portfolio team, the Strategic Transformation Office, and is responsible for the financial management of the portfolio budget.

Focus on portfolio level analysis and activities, specifically related to the budget and financial management.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Financial planning and analysis for the change portfolio - set the standard for budget setting and tracking, ensuring assumptions are consistent across the portfolio. This includes the annual portfolio budgeting, supporting project managers with their individual budgets, and the analysis in between.
2. Benefits management - Set the standards for good quality benefits management including quantifying them, tracking changes, and measuring realization after project delivery.
3. Project Discovery and Business cases - Work with business owners and change colleagues to produce good quality cost estimates and articulate financial cases at each stage of the project lifecycle.
4. Partnerships - Build strong collaborative relationships.
5. Reporting - translating project and portfolio finances into helpful analysis that drives better decision making by our governance bodies.
6. Line management - Line management of one STO administrator.

Minimum Requirements:

Ideally a qualified accountant or demonstrable experience of working at a similar level with:

Technical:

1. Excellent experience working in change financial management.
2. Experience of working in change functions at a portfolio level, as well as projects and programmes.
3. Experience of financial services, insurance or pensions or working in a similarly regulated environment.
4. Strong understanding of change governance and portfolio management methodologies.
5. Strong understanding of financial planning, analysis and financial management methodologies and techniques.
6. Strong understanding of finance change benefits management methodologies and approaches.
7. Good understanding of Programme and Project Methodologies; including, Waterfall, Agile and Hybrid.

Personal:

1. Strong organisational skills.
2. Strong communication skills.
3. Ability to persuade and influence both directly and indirectly.
4. Ability to manage people and other resources effectively.
5. Ability to organise work to meet deadlines.
6. Ability to work within defined procedures as recommended by functional teams.
7. Commercial judgement.

In addition to a competitive base salary and the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan, upon joining us here at Pension Insurance Corporation, you will get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 28 days' annual leave (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme and much more.