Finance Change Programme Manager

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

You will lead the delivery of strategic Finance Change projects to ensure successful delivery of the change agenda through the definition, design and delivery of a project, within a wider programme or portfolio of change. Leading a team of subject matter experts through the end to end project lifecyle to ensure successful delivery of the programme. Proactively lead and collaborate with stakeholders within the business including Finance and Technology to ensure shared ownership for the delivery of business outcomes and realisation of benefits. Manage effective governance framework to ensure the appropriate level of oversight and control is in place across the delivery of the programme

• Leads the end to end delivery of a defined programme - moving through all key stages from discovery through to closure - following the Finance Change methodology
• Works in collaboration with project sponsors and other stakeholders within the business to ensure shared ownership for the delivery of programme outcomes
• Drive complex change into the organisation through the application of ‘best in class’ project, programme and change management
• Deliver to agreed timeline, and on budget, challenge and course correct the plan as required. - Act as first point of escalation for the project team
• Manage all risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies within the project, escalating where appropriate
• Ensure project plans are aligned and dependencies managed to the broader programme plans
• Provide programme status summary and reporting into relevant governance forums
• Adhere to planning and reporting standards
• Lead the process for assessing change requests
• Leads Lessons Learnt sessions & Post implementation reviews in conjunction with team members and other key stakeholders
• Plays an active role in continuously improving the engagement and performance of the team

• Significant experience as a Project Manager delivering end to end projects from initiation, delivery, to release, hypercare and transition
• Finance and Technology Project delivery experience
• Project Management Professional accreditation i.e. APM, Prince2, SAFe, Agile
• Prior experience working within projects heavily aligned with Technology
• Strong Stakeholder skills

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.