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03.03.2025
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Job Type: Permanent
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Group Finance Portfolio Manager
Reporting to the Group Head of Change
Location: London with Hybrid working (likely 3+ days in the office)
About the job
The Group Functions Head of Change (GFHoC) is seeking to optimize the delivery of change projects across all Group Functions including Group Finance.
We will migrate the project management of all Group Finance change projects to a single Portfolio Manager role. Reporting to the GFHoC, you will provide project and portfolio management expertise for all in-flight Group Finance change projects and management of the pipeline of potential new projects. The latter will be achieved by managing the Group Finance Change Governance Forums on behalf of the Group Financial Controller and Group CFO. You will maintain dotted line reporting into senior stakeholders in the Group Finance team including but not limited to The Group Financial Controller, The Head of Group Tax, and the Chief Actuary.
You will manage each of the individual projects in the portfolio, driving their successful execution. Ultimately ensuring each project meets its deliverables, business outcomes and committed benefits. You will be responsible for assembling and leading the project teams ensuring appropriate skills and leverage to allow you to successfully lead the portfolio.
Key responsibilities:
1. Project manage each of the individual projects currently in-flight across Group Finance to deliver the committed project benefits by: Creating, amending and maintaining detailed yet pragmatic project plans; Engaging and driving delivery from multiple teams including implementation partners and/or other third-party partners; Identifying and resolving business and supplier issues in order to ensure that projects can be delivered on time, within budget and to quality targets; Assessing and managing major risks associated with the delivery of the project; Ensuring key stakeholders, internally and externally, are aware of what is required and when.
2. Regularly reporting progress to senior stakeholders as required.
3. Working closely with the GFHoC you will review the project teams assembled under each project and ensure they are set up for success whilst taking opportunities to identify synergies, efficiencies, and cost savings.
4. Manage each project team ensuring appropriate leverage and optimum sharing and efficiency across the portfolio.
5. Work with the Group Finance Leadership Team becoming a trusted deliverer of the Group Finance Change Ambition.
6. Work closely with EPM to ensure the Portfolio aligns with EPM approach and standards.
7. Run the Group Finance Change Governance groups to ensure alignment and optimization of the future pipeline of potential change initiatives.
8. Develop the team(s) of change professionals deployed on Group Finance Change Initiatives to ensure their continuous development.
Requirements:
1. Experience of Portfolio Management.
2. Experience of having led projects/programmes/portfolios in Finance change (good working knowledge of finance is a must).
3. Experience working in Insurance or Financial Services.
4. Relevant project/portfolio/programme management qualification.
5. Extensive experience managing challenging stakeholders up to Executive level.
6. Experienced working as a Project Manager with multiple projects in an environment with challenging timeframes and deliverables.
7. Exposure to the full project life cycle, from inception to user acceptance testing and initial live running with the experience to use the correct level of control.
8. Experience of detailed project planning and management, across people, process and multiple systems.
9. Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
10. Highly results driven, with the energy and determination to succeed in a fast-paced environment.
About Hiscox
As an international specialist insurer we are far removed from the world of mass market insurance products. Instead we are selective and focus on our key areas of expertise and strength - all of which is underpinned by a culture that encourages us to challenge convention and always look for a better way of doing things.
We insure the unique and the interesting. And we search for the same when it comes to talented people. Hiscox is full of smart, reliable human beings that look out for customers and each other. We believe in doing the right thing, making good and rebuilding when things go wrong. Everyone is encouraged to think creatively, challenge the status quo and look for solutions.
Scratch beneath the surface and you will find a business that is solid, but slightly contrary. We like to do things differently and constantly seek to evolve. We might have been around for a long time (our roots go back to 1901), but we are young in many ways, ambitious and going places.
Some people might say insurance is dull, but life at Hiscox is anything but. If that sounds good to you, get in touch.
Diversity and Hybrid working
At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job and we’re committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success.
We have also learned over the past few years that working life doesn’t always have to be in the office, and now it is safe to do so we have introduced hybrid working to encourage a healthy work-life balance.
This hybrid working model is set by the team rather than the business to enable you to manage your own personal work-life balance. We see it as the best of both worlds; structure and sociability on one hand, and independence and flexibility on the other.
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