Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Mace combines construction expertise with consultancy to unlock potential in every person or project and redefine the boundaries of ambition. Mace Consult is undertaking a major enterprise transformation programme to modernise its finance, projects and people processes through Oracle Fusion Cloud. The Senior IT Project Manager will lead the successful delivery of Oracle Finance, Project Financial Management and HCM capabilities, ensuring the programme delivers measurable business outcomes, operational improvements and sustainable value. This role is accountable for end-to-end programme delivery, from mobilisation through design, build, testing, deployment, hyper care and benefits realisation.

Working alongside business sponsors, technology teams and implementation partners, you will ensure Oracle capabilities are deployed to support Mace's global operating model, governance requirements and growth ambitions.

Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the end-to-end delivery of Oracle Fusion Cloud Finance, Project Financial Management and HCM programmes across Mace Consult.
- Owning programme scope, schedule, budget, quality, resources and benefits throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Developing and maintaining integrated programme plans covering business, technology, data, testing, change and deployment activities.
- Managing critical dependencies, risks, issues and decision points across multiple workstreams.
- Delivering programme outcomes aligned to agreed business objectives, success criteria and executive expectations.

Oracle Finance and Project Financial Management:
- Leading delivery of Oracle Fusion Financials including general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, cash management and financial reporting.
- Leading delivery of Oracle Project Financial Management capabilities supporting Mace's project-based revenue and cost management model.
- Working with finance leadership to standardise financial processes, controls and reporting across legal entities and geographies.
- Ensuring readiness for period end close, statutory reporting, audit requirements and financial controls.

Oracle HCM:
- Leading delivery of Oracle HCM capabilities including core HR, absence management, time and labour, talent management and workforce reporting.
- Partnering with HR/TA leadership to standardise and optimise hire-to-retire processes across global operations.
- Ensuring workforce and organisational data are effectively migrated and managed.
- Supporting regulatory and compliance requirements across all operating regions.

Business Transformation and Process Improvement:
- Driving business-led transformation rather than technology deployment alone.
- Facilitating process redesign workshops and challenging non-standard requirements where Oracle best practice provides a suitable alternative.
- Promoting standardisation, simplification and automation of business processes.
- Ensuring alignment between finance, HR, projects, procurement and enterprise reporting processes.

Governance and Stakeholder Management:
- Establishing and maintaining effective programme governance and reporting structures.
- Leading steering committees, programme reviews and executive reporting forums.
- Maintaining programme RAID logs, dependency management and decision registers.
- Managing formal change control processes for scope, budget, resources and timelines.
- Influencing senior stakeholders across finance, HR, technology and executive leadership teams.

Third-Party and Vendor Management:
- Managing Oracle implementation partners and third-party delivery teams.
- Overseeing statements of work, delivery milestones, commercial performance and contractual obligations.
- Holding delivery partners accountable for quality, schedule, resource commitments and programme outcomes.
- Ensuring effective collaboration between internal teams and external suppliers.

Data, Integration and Testing:
- Overseeing data migration strategy, execution and quality management activities.
- Leading integration delivery including Oracle Integration Cloud and associated enterprise interfaces.
- Ensuring successful planning and execution of system integration testing, user acceptance testing, payroll validation, finance close rehearsals and cutover rehearsals.
- Defining and managing go-live readiness criteria and deployment approvals.

Business Readiness and Adoption:
- Leading organisational readiness, communications, stakeholder engagement and training activities.
- Ensuring business ownership of processes, controls, data and benefit realisation.
- Managing cutover, hyper care and transition into operational support.
- Ensuring successful adoption of new processes and ways of working.

Benefits Realisation:
- Developing and maintaining the programme business case and benefits register.
- Tracking and reporting realised benefits against agreed targets.
- Ensuring benefits have clear ownership, measurement criteria and realisation plans.
- Focusing benefits on value creation including operational efficiency, working capital improvement, compliance, control enhancement and employee experience.

Experience
- Significant experience delivering enterprise ERP, finance or HCM transformation programmes.
- Minimum three full lifecycle Oracle Cloud implementations in a senior delivery role.
- Experience delivering Oracle Fusion Financials and Oracle HCM programmes.
- Experience managing programmes valued at £5m+.
- Experience operating within complex, multi-entity and multi-country environments.
- Strong experience managing systems integrators and third-party delivery partners.
- Demonstrable experience engaging executive stakeholders at CFO, CHRO and CIO/CDIO level.
- Proven experience managing programme risks, governance, budget and benefits realisation.
- Experience delivering Oracle Project Financial Management (PPM) solutions is desirable.
- Experience within professional services, consultancy, engineering or project-based organisations is advantageous.
- Experience supporting business separation, carve out, merger or integration programmes is a plus.
- Experience within private equity backed or transformation-led organisations is beneficial.

About you
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to influence senior executives and cross-functional teams.
- Excellent communication and organisational skills.
- Business-focused with a passion for driving transformation and operational improvements.
- Collaborative and able to work effectively with diverse teams and external partners.
- Commitment to Mace’s values including safety, client focus, integrity and creating opportunity.

Qualifications
- Desirable Oracle Cloud certifications in Financials, HCM or Implementation Specialist disciplines.
- PMP, MSP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, AgilePM or SAFe certification preferred.
- Relevant project and programme management qualifications or equivalent experience.