Finance Transformation Project Manager
Company
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/25/2025
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Description
About WPP Media: A Leading WPP Media Brand
WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. For more information, visit wpp.com.
WPP Media is WPP’s global media collective. In a world where media is everywhere and in everything, we bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. For more information, visit wppmedia.com
Role Summary and Impact
Finance Transformation Project Manager
The Finance Transformation Project Manager will work across WPP Media reporting to the Finance Operations Director. The role works closely with a team of business change professionals, the Finance function and IT to mobilise strategic projects that will future proof the business.
Adopting a 'people first approach' and 'agile' approach to business transformation, the finance transformation team will work cross-functionally across the business ensuring:
The right balance of new skills and widest variety of lived experience is injected across the business to complement our rich heritage right across the business. Fostering a culture of continuous learning, inclusion and fairness.
Establish and document 'brilliant basics' in every core operation of the business, embracing a principle of continuous improvement to ensure our people have the time to focus on our customers strategic needs, offshoring or automating time consuming, low value tasks.
Ensure that tools and technology are integrated, rationalised, and built with the business user and purpose in mind so they are easily and willingly adopted by those who will benefit most from their use.
The integration of operational data right across the organisation, solving for a single source of truth that provides the business with a source of 'continuous intelligence' that keeps us pointed in the same direction, enables agile decision making and surfaces potential opportunities to grow commercial success.
Skills And Experience
At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values:
Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.
WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.
Please read our Privacy Notice (https://www.wppmedia.com/pages/privacy-policy) for more information on how we process the information you provide.
While we appreciate all applications received, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
(Please note this is a UK based role and requires individuals to have the right to work in this location)
WPP is the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients and communities. For more information, visit wpp.com.
WPP Media is WPP’s global media collective. In a world where media is everywhere and in everything, we bring the best platform, people, and partners together to create limitless opportunities for growth. For more information, visit wppmedia.com
Role Summary and Impact
Finance Transformation Project Manager
The Finance Transformation Project Manager will work across WPP Media reporting to the Finance Operations Director. The role works closely with a team of business change professionals, the Finance function and IT to mobilise strategic projects that will future proof the business.
Adopting a 'people first approach' and 'agile' approach to business transformation, the finance transformation team will work cross-functionally across the business ensuring:
The right balance of new skills and widest variety of lived experience is injected across the business to complement our rich heritage right across the business. Fostering a culture of continuous learning, inclusion and fairness.
Establish and document 'brilliant basics' in every core operation of the business, embracing a principle of continuous improvement to ensure our people have the time to focus on our customers strategic needs, offshoring or automating time consuming, low value tasks.
Ensure that tools and technology are integrated, rationalised, and built with the business user and purpose in mind so they are easily and willingly adopted by those who will benefit most from their use.
The integration of operational data right across the organisation, solving for a single source of truth that provides the business with a source of 'continuous intelligence' that keeps us pointed in the same direction, enables agile decision making and surfaces potential opportunities to grow commercial success.
Skills And Experience
At WPP Media, we believe in the power of our culture and our people. It’s what elevates us to deliver exceptional experiences for both our clients and each other. In this role it will be critical to embrace WPP & WPP Media’s shared core values:
- Be Extraordinary by Leading Collectively to Inspire transformational Creativity.
- Create an Open environment by Balancing People and Client Experiences by Cultivating Trust.
- Lead Optimistically by Championing Growth and Development to Mobilize the Enterprise.
- Leveraging and complementing the resources, skills and shared services and partners across the group.
- Partnering for success and holding those teams accountable for timely delivery of their commitments.
- Building on the work of others by seeking and surfacing existing solutions and bringing a team of professionals together to build on their ideas.
- Bringing communities of cross-functional specialists together to create scalable solutions that relate to their day job and clients’ needs versus creating a new way of working that is disconnected from the commercial reality of the business.
- Operationalise innovation through these networks so new ideas can be incubated, nurtured and brought to reality.
- Business partnering through engagement with business on a regular basis including face-to-face meetings
- Adding value to operational teams through analysis, reporting etc.
- Other and periodic
- Ensuring compliance with company policies and SOX requirements
- Continuously reviewing current processes and making improvements to allow better control or improved efficiencies
- Ad hoc projects as directed by FC/SFC/ Sr Revenue Analyst
- Review of monthly payroll, when required.
- Assisting AP team with coding of invoices
- Dealing with Finance Plus on ad hoc queries
- Lead the planning and delivery of Finance Transformation related projects and initiatives across different teams working in close collaboration with teams across the business, including WPP, Technology, internal and third parties.
- Responsible for overall project delivery, quality, project health and success,
- Co-ordinate delivery plan from concept to change delivered, working with the operational and data excellence teams and business stakeholders.
- Deliver project reporting covering overall status, risks, issues and mitigation plan as well as highlighting benefits once they are realised.
- Responsible for obtaining agreement and subsequent communication of project scope, governance, delivery plan.
- Prepare and shape materials for senior stakeholder meetings.
- Identify and call out emerging risks and potential roadblocks to successful early implementation.
- Work closely with key stakeholders to prioritise key process issues impacting delivery and with the support of the impacted teams tracking this through to delivery.
- Promote new thinking, creative solutions and ways of working to address issues and mitigate risks.
- Lead continuous improvement of processes and procedures.
- Drive progress by using influencing techniques and chasing down actions, carefully minuting meetings and scheduling key agendas.
- Translate business requirements to technical teams and have capability to understand technical solutions and impact of these to the desired solution.
- Finance experience (an accountancy qualification is needed for this role),
- Prior experience with net working capital improvement initiatives
- A passion for change and delivering value to customers.
- A blend of drive and diplomacy: the ability to make things happen in an environment of ambiguity, complexity and multiple stakeholders.
- Knowledge and experience of a range of project management methodologies and tools (e.g., Agile, Prince2)
- Strong structured communication skills (especially listening) that works for audiences at all levels and enable you to translate messages in a straightforward and simple manner.
- The ability to build effective relationships and collaborate with a range of individuals at all levels in the organisation.
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and have excellent prioritisation skills in order to balance key priorities.
- A ‘can do’ attitude will lead by example, and be prepared to go the extra mile when needed.
- Strong leadership skills, ability to influence and communication with differing levels of the organisation.
- Resilient and tenacious with a propensity to persevere.
- Media experience
- Experience of working with or as business architecture roles to help agitate the strategy and ensure we are working on the right solution rather than the one the business thinks they need.
- Extensive change management experience in a fast paced and unstructured environment
- Experience on Robotics process improvement
Our passion for shaping the next era of media includes investing in our employees to help them do their best work, and we’re just as committed to employee growth as we are to responsible media investment. WPP Media employees can tap into the global WPP Media & WPP networks to pursue their passions, grow their networks, and learn at the cutting edge of marketing and advertising. We have a variety of employee resource groups and host frequent in-office events showcasing team wins, sharing thought leadership, and celebrating holidays and milestone events. Our benefits include competitive medical, group retirement plans, vision, and dental insurance, significant paid time off, preferential partner discounts, and employee mental health awareness days.
WPP Media is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process.
Please read our Privacy Notice (https://www.wppmedia.com/pages/privacy-policy) for more information on how we process the information you provide.
While we appreciate all applications received, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
(Please note this is a UK based role and requires individuals to have the right to work in this location)
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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