Head of Transformation - Financial Services
Job Description
Reporting to C Suite this role will lead the Transformation team overseeing a large scale change initiative, with responsibility for the delivery of key projects. This will be achieved by developing and ensuring adherence to a project and change governance framework, incorporating effective controls for the successful execution of the transformation and change agenda, with a view to creating a customer centric approach within a strict regulatory framework.
Experience required for this role :
- Minimum 10 years working in a similar role or consultancy firm delivering on strategy, change and transformation.
- Extensive leadership experience with a background coaching leadership teams.
- Prior experience and success in delivering companywide transformation in a regulated financial services environment
- Experience in delivering large complex IT projects with multiple stakeholders
- Experience of applying outside inside in learnings and best practices to drive change.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the change management agenda to realise large complex business transformation including systems development and integration with multiple software providers for the purpose of delivering a new business operating model.
- Directing and orchestrating the overall programme to optimise delivery and benefit realisation
- Direct oversight of data transformation initiatives (project related) in conjunction with the digital and technology teams and other external stakeholders as required
- Maintain oversight across the transformation programme
- Oversee and align interdependencies across projects including PM and BA resources
- Facilitate Steering Group meetings. Establish a change governance forum to accept and approve changes in line with management board approval and key stakeholder inputs
- Responsible for overall portfolio direction & prioritisation and communication to the business
- Identify and develop risk mitigation and create resolution recommendations
- Challenge delivery, quality & output
- Highlight key products to accelerate delivery or mitigate risks
- Targeted Intervention & Content Support
- Proactively intervene to support completion of critical projects
- Foster a change delivery culture within the organisation
- Supporting creation of inputs for programme meetings
- Ensuring dependencies and interdependencies are identified and enterprise synergies are realised.
- Support workstreams and SME input on topics such as HR, finance and compliance
- Lead PMO and project management function and oversee financials.
- Liaison between projects to ensure efficiencies
- Manage overall plan, status reporting & governance
- Highlight risks & challenges for escalation/support
- Define & support practical application of tools and approach (reporting etc.)
- Coordinate inputs for and outputs (agreements/actions) of programme meetings
- Manage and track benefit delivery
Key Skills
- Excellent business analytical and project management skills to structure, distil and evaluate complex information and manage change
- Experience with large-scale organizational change effort
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of senior stakeholder audiences.
- Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships.
- Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal.
- Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations.
- Forward looking with a holistic approach
- Organized with a natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics
- Problem solving and root cause identification skills
All interested candidates should send cvs to Susan Nix or call Susan on 01 4321555
