Senior Project Cost Manager

Royal London Group; Macclesfield; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000

Job description

Job Title: Senior Project Cost Manager

Contract Type: 6 month FTC

Location: Alderley Park / Edinburgh

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 14th April 2025

Interviews for this role will take place on 15th & 16th April.

As a Senior Project Cost Manager, you will provide financial leadership, ensuring all financial operational changes are identified and implemented in a controlled, transparent manner. You will be the main point of engagement between the project, key stakeholders, and the impacted Finance teams, maintaining overall budget integrity and review of activity in the new structure and impact on allocations.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Lead Finance implementation of the COO operating Model.
2. Gather business requirements and develop an implementation plan that satisfies the requirements of the project, COO Leadership Team, and Finance stakeholders.
3. Maintain cost integrity and transparency providing clear, effective communication of outcomes to key stakeholders.
4. Define automated finance end state processes and management reporting.
5. Ensure appropriate controls are in place across the cost management team’s processes with a strong balance towards automation.

About You:

1. Qualified Accountant.
2. Significant experience in Commercial Finance / Business Control / Management accounting role.
3. Strong business curiosity and excellent communication, negotiation, and influencing skills.
4. Ability to build effective working relationships and use both financial and non-financial information to support decision-making.

About Royal London

We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.

Inclusion, diversity and belonging: We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.