Job summary
Entity:
Finance
Job Family Group:
Finance Group
Job Description:
This role will sit within the Finance FBT organization, leading a dynamic team of process, project and change specialists supporting Finance PPM’s strategic transformation agenda.
Job Synopsis:
This role reports to the FP&A Digital Solutions & Services Lead, who oversees the FP&A PPM portfolio, digital strategy and implementation team. This team is a key enabler, working closely with the PPM Digital Innovation & Change teams to provide process, project and change specialists in support of the delivery of the PPM transformation roadmap
The Solution Delivery Lead oversees a team of transformation specialists, providing discipline support, capability development, effective resource utilization and delivery assurance supporting execution of projects within the agreed budget and timescales.
Key Roles & Responsibilities:
- Manage and optimize utilization of a pool of transformation specialists, including process, project and change
- Prioritize allocation of resources to projects in line with business goals working closely with PPM digital innovation leaders and other key stakeholders
- Ensure transformation best practice project, change management and process documentation standards are being preserved by the team
- Effectively communicate and manage expectations to team members and stakeholders around resourcing and delivery in a timely and clear fashion.
- Act as an escalation point for both team and client where required, working to drive resolution and communicating impact where required.
- Lead management of stakeholder expectation alignment gaps and/or gaps in meeting client expectations
- Build, develop, and grow any business relationships vital to the success of the project
- Actively develop & grow capability within the team, supporting others in their development and creating opportunities to ‘upskill’ others on core FP&A process, systems and data
Job Functional Knowledge:
- Experience of leading successful transformation teams
- Strong relationship management and communication skills
- Experience of embedding large scale process and system transformation including change leadership, BPRE techniques, project methodologies (e.g. AGILE, PMP, PRINCEII), Lean six sigma and change management models
Business Expertise:
- Finance and/or project background, experienced at business and system transformation with broad knowledge of end-to-end financial processes, up to date with technical trends
- Specific area knowledge related to Planning and Performance Management, analytics and digitization / automation
- Able to describe and discuss industry and BP specific challenges in leading business and technical transformation; can demonstrate an understanding of organization change dynamics and how these impact cultural change.
Leadership: Describe the nature of leadership and guidance provided to others.
- Able to bring together and energize teams effectively across organizational and cultural boundaries to achieve challenging transformation goals.
- Skilled at developing capability within the team and getting the most out of individuals recognizing relative strengths and development areas.
- Foster a culture of learning and sharing across Analytics and Digitization to maximise chances of success
- Role model a culture that welcomes, adopts and safely experiments with change
- A capable influencer, able to use a range of styles to achieve objectives working with stakeholders of all levels.
- Highly aware and active promoter of psychological safety – creating and sustaining an open and honest working environment where all can contribute without fear or bias
- Drive a one-team culture across key Finance teams and the Business.
- Able to cut through key issues and challenges and rapidly resolve with the right level of buy-in and support both from the Finance and Business teams
- Clear and concise communicator – able to build awareness and support of the wider Finance and Business community
Problem Solving:
- Able to make the abstract and complex simple – understanding complex system, data and workflow requirements and translating into simple language to enable business decision making and prioritization.
- Balanced risk mindset, able to evaluate and manage risk effectively and advise on risk based decisions and plans
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments.
- Demonstrated ability to resolve problems
Nature and Area of Impact:
This role will have significant impact working with:
- Finance teams: lead process and system deployments, with input from Finance stakeholders
- PPM leadership: Business requirement prioritization, delivery governance, strategic decision making
- Technology: Partnering with business SME on product design, implementation and operation to execute delivery and support product sustain
Interpersonal skills:
- Ability to work effectively in a dynamic and multi-stakeholder environment as well as being resilient under pressure
- Strong communicator and influencing skills.
- Ability to drive and lead others through change, resolving conflict, building alignment and dealing with ambiguity
- Organised, with a bias for action
- Compelling communicator – simple and clear (verbal and written)
- Ability to move between ‘big picture’ vision and down to individual activities maintaining attention to detail
Travel Requirement
Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role
Relocation Assistance:
This role is eligible for relocation within country
Remote Type:
This position is not available for remote working
Skills:
Analysis and modelling, Analysis and modelling, Analytics, Benchmarking, Business Performance, Business process improvement, Commercial Acumen, Commercial performance management, Communication, Cost Management, Data visualization and interpretation, Decision Making, Economic evaluation methodology, Economic modelling, Financial Analysis, Group Problem Solving, Integrated Planning, Investment appraisal, Long Term Planning, Management Reporting, Managing change, Measurement and metrics, Organizational knowledge, Performance and planning, Performance management {+ 4 more}
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