About the Role:
The Senior Project Manager is responsible for leading, governing, and embedding enterprise-wide finance data and finance systems capability across the Group. The role ensures that system-driven accounting outcomes, finance data, and integrations across all platforms are accurate, controlled, and fit-for-purpose to support statutory, regulatory, and management reporting.
Reporting to the Group Head of Finance Data & Systems (FD&S), the role provides strategic and operational leadership over finance transformation and stabilisation initiatives and finance data governance. The role is accountable for maintaining business-as-usual stability while delivering concurrent change, safeguarding financial integrity, regulatory compliance, and executive confidence in financial information.
Key Deliverables:
- Establish and lead the Finance Data & Systems operating model, ensuring strong governance over finance systems, data, and system-driven accounting outcomes across BSP.
- Own enterprise accountability for finance data integrity, accounting logic, posting rules, and system configurations across core banking, ERP, payroll, digital, and supporting platforms.
- Lead end-to-end delivery of finance remediation and transformation initiatives, from requirements definition through testing, release, and post-implementation stabilisation.
- Ensure stable BAU operations, including oversight of daily interfaces, reconciliations, issue prioritisation, and controlled change management.
- Define, implement, and enforce finance data governance standards, ownership, and controls to support consistent and trusted reporting.
- Act as the primary finance liaison for all technology, digital, and data initiatives impacting financial reporting and accounting outcomes.
- Provide executive-level assurance over UAT sign-off, accounting configuration, and finance-impacting system changes.
- Lead audit and regulatory readiness for finance systems, including documentation, evidence provision, and control traceability.
- Build internal finance-technology capability and reduce reliance on external consultants through knowledge transfer and sustainable operating practices.
What You Bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Information Systems, or a related discipline
- Professional accounting qualification (CPA, CA, or equivalent) preferred
- Minimum 10 – 12 years’ experience in finance, finance systems, data, or transformation roles within banking or regulated financial services.
- Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-wide finance systems or data functions.
- Strong understanding of core banking platforms, ERP systems, and system-driven accounting.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives involving Finance, IT, Digital, Data, and Risk.
- Experience establishing governance frameworks, controls, and operating models.
- Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making capability.
- Experience supporting audits, regulatory reviews, and control assurance in a banking environment.
- People leadership experience with a focus on capability uplift and delivery assurance.
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