Finance Manager
Full Time
Job Description
- The role is to provide project management support for Aspen’s Finance Change projects and Initiatives
- Agree priorities with the Head of Finance Systems Change & Support and the sponsors and/or business owners of the change initiatives which they are allocated to support
- The role is accountable for ensuring each project and change initiative has adequate levels of governance (planning, budgeting, reporting, tracking and risk management) in place
- The role would be part of the wider Finance Change team working closely with Finance change specialists.
- Optimization of business change delivery and associated business benefits
- Identify and scope change initiatives with key stakeholders, ensuring a risk assessment and delivery plan is created and agreed prior to delivery commencing
- Design and maintain a plan of each business change initiative to track delivery through to project closure / realizing the benefits across each change initiative
- Compliance with operational risk policy - ensure operational risks associated with change are analyzed and managed
- Awareness of all compliance and risk policies and ensure those relevant to business change initiatives are identified and complied with
- Ensure all stakeholders for each Finance change initiative are identified and their requirements are understood and prioritized
- Ability to build strong stakeholder relationships to influence and drive change across multiple business areas
- Ensure all of the potential impacts of Finance change initiatives are identified and managed/escalated as appropriate
- Ensure projects and programs are delivered within the framework of Aspen Change Risk policies and all Business Change methodology requirements are adhered to including:
- Approval requirements and stage gates
- Consistent processes, documents, and reporting
- Focus on definition, planning, execution, and benefit delivery
- Documented roles and responsibilities
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Good knowledge of the general insurance industry
- Knowledge of project management and business analysis techniques
- Knowledge of Finance processes and data
- Experience of project and change management from a Finance rather than IT perspective
- Experience of the business implementation of change in the general insurance industry
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