Project and Change Lead (Finance Transformation)

SGS

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Project and Change Lead combines hands-on project delivery with practical change management to support execution of SGS’s large-scale Finance transformation program, which comprises approximately 200 projects, 70% of them finance-driven. The role drives delivery and adoption across multiple initiatives, ensuring that projects are embedded in the business and deliver impact. It connects program structure, stakeholders, and impacted teams, bringing coordination and execution focus across a complex portfolio. This is a practitioner role focused on doing, coordinating, and delivering.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Approximately 5 or more years of experience in project management, transformation or programme delivery, or change management.
• Hands-on experience delivering projects within large-scale, complex Finance transformation programmes.
• Ability to independently drive initiatives end-to-end with limited coaching and support.
• Experience working across multiple projects or workstreams in complex, multinational, matrix organisations.
• Strong practical change management and stakeholder engagement experience.
• Strong project management fundamentals, including planning, coordination, and reporting.
• Practical change management experience, including impact assessment, communication, and stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives of different types simultaneously.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to translate complex topics into simple, actionable messages.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree or MBA.
• Experience with Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid delivery methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Drive execution of multiple initiatives across the Finance transformation program.
• Build and maintain plans, milestones, dependencies, and reporting.
• Ensure alignment and connectivity across projects and workstreams.
• Track progress, risks, and outcomes, and proactively drive resolutions.
• Apply Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid delivery methodologies as appropriate.
• Ensure deliverables progress from completion to adoption and value realization.
• Conduct change impact assessments and stakeholder analysis.
• Translate program objectives into clear, actionable communication.
• Define and execute communication and engagement plans.
• Support and mobilize local stakeholders and change champions.
• Monitor adoption, identify gaps, and intervene to improve outcomes.
• Ensure impacted teams understand what is changing, why, and how it affects them.
• Partner with regional finance leaders, including CFOs, SMEs, and operations teams.
• Coordinate across functions and geographies to support consistent execution.
• Facilitate alignment, decision-making, and issue resolution.
• Bridge technical teams, program leadership, and business stakeholders.
• Provide clear, actionable updates to program leadership.
• Manage risks, dependencies, and escalation topics.
• Contribute to pragmatic improvements in project and change frameworks.
• Ensure transparency and consistency across reporting structures.

Benefits

• Flexible schedule.
• Remote work model.
• Continuous learning opportunities through SGS University and Campus.
• Opportunity to collaborate in a multinational environment with colleagues from various continents.
• Supportive, team-oriented culture.
• Opportunities to learn, grow expertise, and fulfill potential.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior