• Ensure solutions and processes are high quality
• Meet business and operational performance requirements
• Own and create a business analysis framework and processes
• Implementing standardisation, increasing the maturity and effectiveness of the team.
• Drive continual business improvement, seizing every opportunity to streamline and automate.
• Champion and drive certification to external standards
• Manage business alignment and compliance.
• Ensure compliance with industry and regulatory standards.

Skills: Quality Assurance, Performance Management, Business Analysis Creation, Standardization Implementation, Continuous Improvement, Certification Advocacy, Alignment Management, Regulatory Compliance

• Overall change management to ensure successful delivery strategic initiatives
• Manage stakeholder communications and ensure key stakeholders 
• Influence change and others toward a common vision or goal
• Support the design, development, delivery and management of communications
• Apply a structure methodology and lead change management activities
• Co-ordinate and steer business & infrastructure teams 
• Report progress to key stakeholders, maintain RAID log 
• Highlight key issues, risks and dependencies to the programme
• Design and implement change management strategies and plans to increase adoption and usage
• Deliver initiatives including FMC, QDLP, PFM and additional China projects in line with group strategy

Skills: Change Management, Stakeholder Communication, Change Advocacy, Communication Management, Methodical Change Implementation, Team Coordination, Progress Reporting, Change Strategy Implementation

• Work to measure impact, culture and accountability.
• Develop strategies to mitigate change resistance and avoid change fatigue.
• Provides effective and efficient solutions to complex business problems.
• Provides high level oversight and leadership.
• Supporting the development and delivery of change management related deliverables.
• Conducting change assessments, stakeholder analysis, developing communication plans
• Implementing change management strategies, and ensuring integration of change activities into the project plan.
• Manage strategies and detailed plans to ensure a cohesive approach is applied to all change management initiatives.
• Establish and manage formal and informal change networks to help coordinate and drive change activities in person and virtually

Skills: Impact Measurement, Change Strategies, Problem Solving, Executive Leadership, Change Support, Communication Planning, Strategy Implementation, Network Management

• Develop and deliver key business change and adoption activities 
• Implementing business change initiatives in a complex, fast-moving environment
• Collaborating with a range of stakeholders including senior leaders
• Liaising with technical experts and business stakeholders
• Create an overall business change approach and plan for the Workplace Technology annual roadmap 
• Develop, and take ownership of the delivery of the business engagement approach for Workplace Technology
• Work in conjunction with the Service Owners for each Workplace Technology product area
• Ensure that projects have the right business change approach and that the right resources are in place to deliver the business change plan.
• Understand and manage stakeholders’ requirements and expectations to ensure customer satisfaction with technology-enabled change projects.
• Delivering business change strategy and activities that support agile product development and delivery

Skills: Change Delivery, Agile Implementation, Stakeholder Collaboration, Tech-Business Liaison, Strategy Creation, Engagement Planning, Service Owner Collaboration, Requirement Management

• Ownership of the company operating model to ensure that new developments are consistent with principles.
• Maintain company operating model documentation so it can be used to induct new employees and suppliers/partners.
• Manage a small, high performing team supporting Business Analysis activities and Compliance/Governance.
• Demonstrate leadership, effective coaching, mentoring and develop a committed, engaged, and high performing team.
• Manage capacity and demand, balancing competing priorities to maximise business benefit.
• Lead requirements capture, analysis, validation, verification and approval
• Making sure that requirements are complete, consistent, feasible and verifiable.
• Translate business and customer requirements, using data analysis and metrics to drive the right business outcomes.
• Work cross functionally to effectively design, develop, test and launch scalable solutions and processes that address customer/company needs.

Skills: Model Oversight, Documentation Management, Team Leadership, Capacity Management, Requirements Management, Validation & Approval, Requirement Translation, Solution Development

• Be responsible for the delivery of effective change management
• Working with operational managers to embed changes within the business. 
• Plan business change activities for the project
• Deliver and implement Project Change approach plan and strategy
• Training Needs Analysis strategy and plan
• Lead and promote effective ways of working within the team
• Deliver change management activities to ensure ongoing stakeholder and user engagement.
• Maintaining the benefits framework that links change delivery to the achievement of business benefits
• Identifying what changes in processes, procedures and practices are needed to achieve change and deliver the planned benefits.
• Identify and support key users, and change agents in the development of appropriate change management plans.

Skills: Change Management, Operational Collaboration, Business Planning, Project Implementation, Training Analysis, Team Leadership, Stakeholder Engagement, Benefits Maintenance

• Planning and producing timelines/detailed plans to support business acceptance/readiness
• Identifying and managing business issues, risks and dependencies across projects 
• Ensure senior managers and stakeholders are made aware so that issues can be resolved in a timely manner
• Liaising with relevant parties within own and other business areas to ensure the impacts of change are co-ordinated communicated and understood
• Collating, monitoring and interpreting relevant information, providing reports and/or feeding into benefits profiles
• Developing effective relationships between stakeholders
• Providing business knowledge to programmes, projects and Service Management
• Reporting, planning, managing to plan, managing risks/issues, appropriate escalation
• Ongoing support structure and continuous improvement plans identified

Skills: Timeline Planning, Issue Management, Stakeholder Communication, Change Impact Coordination, Information Analysis, Relationship Development, Business Integration, Performance Reporting

• Prepare people for the change, to minimise its impact on individuals and the business
• Analysing multiple sources of data and insight to identify issues and blockers
• Taking action to resolve and address the feedback
• Input to maintain the Change Roadmap and manage associated risks and issues
• Define and deliver the change management activities for the Ashurst Advance division Legal Transformation Programme
• Working with the Programme team and senior members of Ashurst Advance to identify and manage stakeholders within the firm
• Work with internal programme teams to manage dependencies on change activities and ensure the change approach is understood
• Work within the Business Change function to ensure there is a consistent approach to change management across the firm

Skills: Change Preparation, Data Analysis, Feedback Resolution, Roadmap Maintenance, Program Delivery, Stakeholder Management, Dependency Management, Change Approach Enforcement

• Delivering large scale transformation and continuous improvement projects.
• Translate strategy into delivery through effective plans and resourcing 
• Be an expert in data / performance strategy development and execution.
• Developing business cases, managing programme budgets and benefits.
• Reporting project status to Steering Committee and senior management
• Development and maintenance of project documentation
• Manage an effective and proportionate Change Process to manage the impact of change.
• Responsible for assessing and reviewing business change requests.
• Perform proportionate impact assessments on escalated business change and project requests.
• Lead the continual improvement and deployment of the Change management process and policy and their adoption across the agency.
• Accept, defer for further analysis and/or reject change requests within delegated authority defined by the delivery solutions division.
• Lead the development of reporting on business change initiatives’ progress, risks, issues and performance.

Skills: Transformation Delivery, Strategy Implementation, Data Performance Expertise, Business Case Management, Project Reporting, Documentation Maintenance, Change Process Management, Change Request Assessment

• Proven experience in project planning and management
• Experience in project governance and control.
• Experience in managing IT implementation projects
• Experience combining third party and internal suppliers/staff.
• Experience in financial services/insurance.
• Understanding of basic financial models and P/L, financial forecasting and budgeting.
• Experience in leading and innovating problem analysis and resolution.
• Ability in the Microsoft Office suite, including Project.
• Experience with broker software houses and/or Polaris.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Qualifications: BS in Management Information Systems with 7 years of Experience

• A proven track record of successfully managing change in a complex organisation.
• Significant stakeholder management experience
• Experience in managing change in a fast-paced and agile environment
• Ability to interpret and use complex data
• Ability to work under pressure, manage time effectively and work on own initiative
• Excellent analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills at all levels
• Good technical knowledge and ability to translate between IT and the business
• Ability to negotiate pragmatic solutions that meet conflicting business requirements
• Problem solving ability within a complex investment management environment

Qualifications: BS in Business Administration with 5 years of Experience

• Demonstrable experience working in a senior IT Management position
• Extensive project and programme management experience
• A demonstrable understanding of IT infrastructure, networking systems and information management systems
• Experience working with software developers to deliver internal application changes
• Excellent communicator able to reduce complex ideas to simple terms 
• Ability to express these both to nontechnical and highly technical audiences.
• Demonstrable ability to work in a pressurised environment with conflicting priorities
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills 

Qualifications: BS in Business Analytics with 4 years of Experience

• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to operate under pressure and deliver to demanding deadlines
• Strong planning skills and an ability to deliver quickly and effectively to tight deadlines
• Experience in designing and delivering change strategies and interventions with proven results
• Experience in establishing change and / or business networks to deliver change to a business
• Strong knowledge of Asset Management systems, such as Aladdin by BlackRock or Fidessa LatentZero.
• Ability to engage with senior business and stakeholders, senior management teams and the public

Qualifications: BS in Project Management with 6 years of Experience

• Exceptional organisation and planning skills.
• Able to work well with staff, co-workers, peers and managers
• Able to share critical information with everyone involved in a project.
• Able to coordinate the activities of cross-disciple teams
• Experience in successfully managing business change within a professional services company 
• Proven skills and knowledge of change management disciplines, approaches, tools and methodologies
• Experience in supporting and working with support staff such as business analysts, project managers and training teams
• Able to influence outcomes at a mid-senior level within the organisation
• Ability to work accurately and effectively even when under pressure
• Able to learn and understand current business processes and help to model new processes/procedures

Qualifications: BS in Operations Management with 5 years of Experience

• Experience in delivering Change within a large-scale SAP ECC or SAP S/4HANA implementation 
• Experience in delivering change in programmes that are multi-site / regional / global
• A proven track record in helping global brands transform their organisations
• Demonstrable experience in driving client adoption of processes and new ways of working 
• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship building skills
• Excellent knowledge of all elements of the project lifecycle
• Able to listen and understand customer requirements
• Able to manage business change activities within a large global transformation programme
• Excellent presentation, written and communication skills
• Demonstrable experience as a Business Change Lead on large scale transformation programmes, underpinned by technology, in one or more industries for Tier 1 clients

Qualifications: BA in Organizational Development with 8 years of Experience

• Ability to define and document business requirements to a high standard
• Experience with the appropriate methods and tools to achieve requirements capture and definition
• Ability to document process using formal methodology such as BPML/UML
• Experience working within a front office environment in an asset management firm
• Familiarity with broad range of investment products and instruments
• Experience in working with internal teams and third parties to ensure that requirements are met within agreed timescales
• Experience in full project life cycle including defining user requirements, defining test scenarios and user acceptance testing
• Good understanding of fund management business and processes
• Good interpersonal and organisational skills

Qualifications: BA in Human Resources Management with 6 years of Experience

• Advanced presentation, organization, and meeting facilitation skills
• Advanced oral and written communication skills 
• Ability to articulate concepts simply and energetic and highly motivated
• Technically minded and genuine interest in the value of technology solutions
• Proficient with Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Excel
• Business Change Manager Skills and Abilities
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• A good business and process understanding
• Ability to communicate across many organizational levels and diverse cultures in a virtual environment.
• Experienced in the deployment and embedding of new devices, operating systems and software changes across the entire business network

Qualifications: BA in Strategic Management with 4 years of Experience

• Comprehensive understanding of the change lifecycle
• Knowledge of best practice business change management, tools, and techniques
• Learning methodology and cycles with different approaches 
• Knowledge of best practice tools and techniques
• Proven experience in conducting workshops and gaining Business Change and trust
• Motivate others and achieve maximum output and commitment
• Experience working within a complex organization, working across departments to drive change programs and projects
• Extremely financially literate with the ability to understand financial performance and deliver tangible outcomes on cost savings, efficiency and productivity performance
• Experience in value stream mapping including identifying key leading metrics and delivering tangible business improvements
• Strong commercial acumen with experience in connecting business performance with digital transformation

Qualifications: BA in Organizational Development with 7 years of Experience