Senior Project Manager - Finance Data Remediation (COREP / FINREP) in London

London (Hybrid) x3 Days on-site £550 - £600

emagine is a high-end professional services consultancy and solutions firm specialising in providing business and technology services to the financial services sector. We power progress, solve challenges and deliver real results through tailored high-end consulting services and solutions.

We have created a culture of openness and integrity by building genuine and strong relationships and partnerships, enabling us to be uncompromising in our dedication to delivering the optimal service for our clients. Our commitment is not just towards our clients but we aim to foster a positive and equitable working environment with our consultants and colleagues which stems from our core values: Confident, Dedicated, Responsible, Genuine.

We are seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead a high-profile Finance Data Remediation initiative focused on addressing regulatory reporting issues across COREP and FINREP. This role will be responsible for driving delivery of a structured remediation programme to improve data quality, integrity, and control across regulatory submissions. This is a hands-on delivery role suited to a proactive self-starter who can take ownership, drive progress, and ensure outcomes are achieved in a controlled and timely manner.

The role:

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of a Finance Data Remediation project, addressing data quality issues impacting COREP and FINREP reporting.
• Develop and execute detailed project plans, ensuring clear milestones, ownership, and delivery against agreed timelines.
• Coordinate remediation activities across business, finance, and technology teams to resolve data gaps and inconsistencies.
• Support the identification and documentation of end-to-end data flows, lineage, and key data elements from source to report.
• Track and manage data issues, ensuring clear prioritisation, accountability, and resolution to agreed standards.
• Work with stakeholders to improve data sourcing, with a focus on aligning to strategic or “golden source” systems.
• Ensure appropriate controls, reconciliations, and governance processes are implemented and embedded.
• Provide regular, clear reporting on progress, risks, and issues to programme leadership and senior stakeholders.
• Facilitate decision-making by presenting options, impacts, and recommendations in a clear and structured manner.
• Proactively identify and remove delivery blockers, maintaining momentum across all workstreams.

Key Skills and Experience:

To succeed in this role you will need:

• Proven experience delivering projects within regulatory reporting and/or finance data environments.
• Strong project management capability, including planning, tracking, RAID management, and stakeholder reporting.
• Experience supporting or delivering data remediation or data quality improvement initiatives.
• Good understanding of COREP and/or FINREP reporting processes and associated data challenges.
• Ability to coordinate across multiple teams and manage dependencies in complex environments.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to engage and influence at senior levels.
• Structured, detail-oriented approach with a focus on delivery and outcomes.
• Ability to understand and challenge data flows, controls, and reporting processes.

Desirable Experience:

• Prior experience working on COREP / FINREP remediation programmes.
• Familiarity with data governance frameworks and principles such as BCBS 239.
• Experience contributing to improvements in data operating models, ownership, and controls.
• Background in financial services, ideally within banking or regulatory change environments.

Our people:

The ideal consultants will share our values and be aligned with our ways of working. As your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the project lifecycle, from strategy to implementation. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career.

We pride ourselves on:

• Providing our people with a supportive culture, rooted in our values and driven by our purpose.
• Promoting a culture of inclusion, collaboration, well-being, and learning and development.
• Providing increased agility and flexibility within our hybrid working model.
• Investing in employees’ growth through ongoing training and development.
• Autonomy to take ownership of projects, making decisions and demonstrating individual expertise.
• Providing a transparent performance and career management experience.

Our consultants are integral to delivering successful consulting engagements, addressing our clients’ most pressing business challenges, and building lasting value in disciplines such as:

• Solve sophisticated, ambiguous business, change and technology problems, bringing structure and meticulous analysis and planning, acting, and taking decisions with little strategic direction.
• Build, develop and sustain trusted senior client relationships in the C-suite by remaining highly attuned to client needs.
• Drive, enable and support the business, partnering with our leaders, clients, and consultants across our practices to take the best of emagine to our clients through opportunity identification/qualification, solution development/presentation.

Interested?

At emagine, we are committed to building an international and diverse team by embracing our different backgrounds. If you are up to the challenge and would like to find out more, get in touch with us immediately. Our internal recruitment team is always keen to hear from dynamic individuals that are looking to further their career and explore their full potential.

“emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin.”