Financial Systems Project Manager

The Vacancy

🌟 Financial Systems Project Manager

📍 Finsbury Park ¦ WPS Business
🕒 9 Months FTC

Are you a finance systems expert with a passion for delivering impactful projects? 🚀 We’re looking for a Financial Systems Project Manager to lead key system changes, oversee data migration, and help shape the future of our finance function.

💼 What You’ll Do

• Lead and support end‑to‑end finance system projects, including migration and implementation.
• Act as the go‑to expert for finance systems and ensure solutions meet business needs.
• Oversee UAT, testing, documentation, and system controls.
• Drive process improvements across AP, AR, GL, assets, budgeting, and reporting.
• Build strong relationships with Finance, IT, Procurement, and wider teams.
• Ensure accurate, high‑quality financial data and reporting across platforms.

✨ What You’ll Bring

• Experience delivering finance system or ERP projects.
• Strong understanding of finance processes and controls.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Analytical mindset with strong attention to detail.
• Experience coordinating UAT, testing, or system training.

Desirable: Finance qualifications (ACCA/CIMA etc.), experience with ERP systems (D365, SAP, Oracle), BI or data tools, and process improvement methodologies (Lean, Six Sigma, Prosci).

🌍 Additional Info

Some travel to Liverpool and the Northwest will be required during the project.

📩 Apply Now

Ready to make an impact and help shape our financial systems transformation? ✨
Click Apply Now to submit your application and join our WPS team in Finsbury Park! 🙌

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.