Lead, Project Management & Governance

About the role

Reporting to the Head, Finance Transformation & Governance, this role leads the Project Management and Finance Governance functions to ensure effective delivery of key initiatives, strong financial controls, disciplined expense management and adherence to governance requirements. It covers end-to-end project delivery, expenditure governance oversight and initiatives with clear business value, controlled risks and high-quality outcomes.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and deliver strategic initiatives across Finance, coordinating cross-functionally with enterprise priorities and stakeholders.
• Oversee the full project lifecycle, from initiation and planning through execution, monitoring, control and closure.
• Manage project plans, timelines, milestones, risks, dependencies, budgets and resource allocations.
• Ensure deliverables meet project management standards, internal policies, audit requirements and governance controls.
• Drive change management, including post-implementation reviews and benefits realisation tracking.
• Communicate clearly and timely with sponsors, initiative owners, leads and stakeholders.
• Partner with Internal Control, Audit, Risk, Regulatory and Transformation Office stakeholders on governance and compliance.
• Oversee finance governance, policies and expenditure controls for BAU and transformation initiatives.
• Manage IT/finance workflow platforms for expenditure approvals, investment tracking and governance reporting.
• Review and validate project and expense budgets, monitor project financials and escalate deviations.
• Support business planning, expense forecasting and reporting, conduct ad-hoc financial analysis, run QA reviews and support system upgrades, migrations and parallel runs.

Required profile

• 8-10 years of project management and finance governance experience, preferably in a regulated financial services environment.
• Degree in accounting/finance or equivalent professional qualification.
• Experience in financial accounting, expense management, SOX and governance frameworks, preferably in life insurance.
• Strong business acumen, communication skills, leadership across functions, analytical mindset and ability to work under time pressure.

Required skills

• Preferred: JIRA, Confluence, Oracle, SUNGL applications.
• Advantageous: PMI-PMP certification and Lean Six Sigma.