Senior Project Manager

We’re looking for people to join the Access family, who share our passion for believing in better, and who will help us continue to grow.

Love Work. Love Life. Be You. - is central to our success and how we give our customers the freedom to do more of what's important to them.

What does Access offer you? 

We offer a blended approach to office working, encouraging you to collaborate and connect in one of our thriving offices. We deliver on what we say, taking the development of our people seriously. We’ll work with you to progress your success plan and provide opportunities to accelerate your career. 

About you: 

You are an accomplished project leader with extensive experience delivering complex payroll and SaaS implementation programs. Trusted by senior stakeholders and clients alike, you confidently navigate large-scale, multi-workstream engagements, ensuring successful delivery from initiation through to go-live and beyond.

You bring more than execution excellence—you provide strategic guidance, foster strong client partnerships, and mentor emerging project managers to elevate the performance of the wider team. As a champion of continuous improvement, you help shape delivery frameworks, strengthen project management capability, and drive best-practice execution across the organization.

Your leadership sets the standard. By combining commercial insight, delivery expertise, and a relentless focus on outcomes, you consistently deliver value for clients while raising the bar for project management excellence.

Day-to-day, you will: 

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex payroll and workforce management software implementations, from discovery through to go-live and project closure.
• Own project planning, governance, risks, dependencies, resources, and milestones to ensure successful delivery outcomes.
• Act as the trusted advisor and primary client contact, managing stakeholder expectations, communications, issues, and scope changes.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and drive requirements gathering, solution design, UAT, and client sign-off activities.
• Manage project commercial performance, including budgets, utilisation, forecasting, margins, and delivery risks.
• Mentor project managers, champion delivery excellence, and continuously improve project methodologies, templates, and standards.

Your skills and experiences might also include:  

• Exposure to payroll fundamentals, workflows, and compliance across APAC jurisdictions, with the ability to advise clients and coach team members through complex scenarios.
• Proven success delivering complex, high-value SaaS and software implementation projects; PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent certification is strongly preferred.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with confidence leading executive governance forums and influencing outcomes across client and internal teams.
• Strong customer focus, combining analytical thinking and proactive problem-solving to identify risks early and drive successful outcomes.
• Demonstrated commitment to raising delivery standards through continuous improvement of methodologies, processes, and best practices.
• Possessing a forward-thinking mindset with the ability to leverage AI and automation tools to increase effectiveness, productivity and business value.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, able to engage and influence both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Being highly organised and adaptable, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects, balance competing priorities, and quickly master new technologies.
• Ability to demonstrate that you are a self-motivated leader who thrives under pressure, works effectively both independently and collaboratively, and is passionate about mentoring others and building team capability.

What are we all about? 

The Access Group is one of the largest UK-headquartered business management software providers. It provides solutions that empower more than 160,000 small and mid-sized organisations in commercial and non-profit sectors across Europe, USA and APAC, giving every employee the freedom to do more of what's important. Its innovative cloud solutions and integrated AI software experience across multiple Access products transform how business technology is used.

With over 9,300 talented individuals driving innovation and customer excellence, we’re shaping the future of work. And we want you to be part of it. At Access, people are at the heart of everything we do. We’re committed to creating an inclusive, high-performing culture where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to thrive. If you’re excited about this role - even if your experience doesn’t tick every box - you might be exactly who we’re looking for.

We believe in equality for all and the transformative power of diversity. So why not join our vibrant team, where you can love what you do, love how you live, and most importantly, be authentically you?

Let’s make a difference together.

Love Work. Love Life. Be You.