Role: Senior Project Manager

Length

End of 2026

Location

London - Hybrid working

Rate

£855 per day via umbrella

Context

GIA Transformation is delivering the 5 Priorities Programme a two-year, modular programme across five priorities, comprising 25 deliverables with baselined OKRs. The programme is incredibly ambitious, aiming to redesign our processes, tooling, and data to reimagine audit as an end-to-end joined up service.

From 31 October (this year), the programme enters a critical phase: bringing multiple deliverables together into a single, coherent “new way of auditing” that a global ~900-person function can understand, adopt, and operate consistently, shaping how audits are executed in 2027.

Role purpose

One Project Manager will support the Head of Transformation by providing hands-on programme delivery leadership to design and drive the go-live enablement approach (how we package the change, “sell” the value, and train/enable the function) and to run the go-live readiness tracking and governance to ensure we are genuinely ready to launch.

The role strengthens orchestration across Sponsors/SLT, SMEs, Methodology, Digital/Tech and BAU owners, maintaining delivery discipline and reducing risk from fragmented enablement and unmanaged dependencies.

Key responsibilities

• Design the end-to-end go-live enablement approach from 31 October, creating an innovative and engaging “formal enablement” model (e.g., an academy-style approach) that brings together the threads of multiple deliverables into one coherent way of working.
• Define the change narrative and value story: translate programme outputs into compelling, consistent messaging (what’s changing, why it matters, what it means for different roles, and the value it unlocks), equipping leaders to communicate with confidence.
• Design the training and adoption strategy for a global ~900-person population, including role-based pathways and a blended model (examples may include: live sessions, self-serve modules, playbooks/job aids, simulations/practice labs, office hours, “train-the-trainer”, and a champions network).
• Coordinate delivery of comms and training (mixture of owning and orchestrating): build the integrated comms/training calendar, secure SME and leader inputs, manage production of materials, and drive follow-through to reach coverage across time zones.
• Establish and run a single view of go-live readiness tracking: define readiness criteria, create the readiness dashboard/checklists, and track progress across key dimensions (people readiness, process readiness, tooling/data readiness, BAU ownership/support readiness).
• Run go-live governance and decisioning: operate the readiness cadence with Sponsors/SLT (actions, follow-ups, decision capture), ensuring blockers are surfaced early and driven to closure, including clear go/no-go recommendations where required.
• Maintain and drive the single live dependency log across deliverables (including technology/release dependencies), with clear owners, dates, impacts, and escalation routes.
• Plan and mobilise hypercare from January (minimum three months): define the support model (triage, escalation routes, issue-to-fix tracking, reporting), and ensure hypercare insights feed back into comms, training updates, and continuous improvement.
• Produce concise, decision-ready governance packs: report enablement progress and readiness status clearly, highlighting adoption risks, trade-offs, and required decisions.