Senior Programme Manager
FNZ is a global wealth management platform provider.
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About FNZ
FNZ describes itself as 'wealth's growth platform', providing a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology, business operations, and investment operations within a regulated financial institution connected to a universe of investment products. The company serves banks, wealth managers, insurance companies, and asset managers, with over US$2.5 trillion in assets on platform and nearly 30 million end investors served through its clients. Its offerings span wealth management platforms, advisor tools and productivity solutions, asset management distribution, and trade and post-trade securities services, along with a data platform combining an Operational Data Store, Analytical Data Warehouse, and Aggregated Data Warehouse to power analytics, machine learning, and generative AI insights. FNZ has notable clients including Santander, Colonial First State (CFS), Vanguard, Aviva, and Swedbank, and in 2025 announced a global five-year strategic partnership with Microsoft to integrate Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, GitHub Copilot, and Microsoft 365 Copilot across its platform and operations. FNZ is backed by major institutional shareholders including Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ), CPP Investments, Generation Investment Management, and Motive Partners.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead the Finance Systems and Transformation portfolio from planning through execution, adoption, and benefits realisation. You will manage governance, delivery plans, risks, dependencies, budgets, suppliers, business readiness, and programme reporting for senior leaders.
Requirements
- Experience leading complex multi-workstream finance systems or enterprise transformation programmes
- Programme and portfolio management capability
- Integrated planning, governance, RAID, dependency management, change control, and benefits realisation
- Experience preparing executive and Steering Committee reporting
- Experience coordinating Finance, Technology, Operations, and external delivery partners
- Experience challenging delivery plans and driving recovery activity
- Understanding of finance processes, systems implementation, controls, testing, readiness, and BAU transition
- Commercial and financial discipline for budgets, forecasts, resources, and supplier commitments
- Stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and influencing skills
- Experience in financial services or a regulated environment
- Experience with Finance ERP, EPM, reporting, data, controls, or operating-model transformation
- Microsoft Dynamics 365
- Anaplan
- Power BI
- Qlik
- Azure DevOps
- MSP
- PRINCE2
- PMP
Responsibilities
- Translate finance transformation strategy into programmes, workstreams, milestones, and outcomes
- Drive delivery across multiple initiatives and intervene when progress, ownership, or quality is at risk
- Own the transformation roadmap, integrated plan, critical path, and cross-workstream dependencies
- Operate programme governance, including Steering Committee preparation, decision papers, reporting, and action tracking
- Establish planning, RAID, dependency, decision, change-control, financial-tracking, and document-management standards
- Manage delivery risks and issues and escalate material matters
- Challenge plans, assumptions, estimates, and recovery actions
- Confirm readiness of scope, requirements, testing, controls, documentation, and handover before stage-gate decisions
- Coordinate internal teams, contractors, and delivery partners
- Ensure change, communications, training, readiness, ownership, and BAU transition activities
- Define benefits, track realisation, and apply lessons learned