Oracle HFM Project Program Manager

Establish and manage a portfolio of HFM (Hyperion Financial Management) projects, change, and improvement initiatives.

• Define and maintain project scope, objectives, deliverables, milestones, ownership, and governance tailored to each initiative’s complexity.
• Develop, track, and update project and delivery plans; monitor progress, identify risks/slippage, and drive corrective actions.
• Coordinate project delivery across Finance, Technology, Service Delivery, Infrastructure, technical teams, and third-party suppliers.
• Set up and maintain Azure DevOps as the central framework for project delivery, ensuring quality and up-to-date delivery data.
• Consolidate integrated HFM portfolio planning, including technical change, enhancements, BAU (Business as Usual) changes, production releases, dependencies, and resource requirements.
• Establish and uphold project governance and delivery assurance, including plans, milestones, actions, decisions, and evidence of delivery.
• Produce clear, accurate, and management-focused project and portfolio status reports for senior stakeholders, highlighting achievements, risks, issues, and escalation points.
• Oversee RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) and dependency management, ensuring ownership, actions, and timely mitigation.
• Coordinate cross-team delivery across functional, technical, business, and supplier teams, clarifying deliverables, dependencies, and escalation needs.
• Maintain resource and capacity planning, identifying conflicts and supporting prioritization decisions.
• Plan and coordinate release and cutover activities, developing runbooks, confirming resources, and managing go-live windows and hypercare.
• Ensure delivery owners retain accountability for their workstreams and outcomes.
• Communicate effectively with business, technology, and third-party stakeholders.
• Identify and challenge delivery issues early, ensuring timely resolution and minimal disruption.

Proven programme/project management experience in complex enterprise technology environments.

• Successful track record managing multiple concurrent technology projects.
• Strong hands-on project planning, delivery, and Azure DevOps (or similar) experience.
• Experience with Finance systems, HFM, or EPM platforms preferred.
• Demonstrated project governance, RAID, and dependency management skills.
• High-quality project/portfolio reporting for senior stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication capabilities.
• Experience coordinating production implementations, releases, and cutovers.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, identify issues early, and drive corrective actions.

Desirable:

• Finance systems project/programme or Finance Transformation experience.
• Experience with technology change during critical Finance reporting cycles.
• Experience working with AMS, offshore/nearshore, and third-party suppliers.
• Experience tracking service or continuous-improvement initiatives in a technology portfolio.

Other Requirements:

• Ability to work 2-3 days per week from Chertsey.
• Flexibility to support planned release/cutover weekends (typically once per month).