Associate Director, Programme Manager, Finance Transformation

The Associate Director, Programme Manager, Finance Transformation manages a varied portfolio of technical and non-technical business change projects as well as being accountable for the implementation of the Finance Target Operating Model and supporting systems, impacting staff across the Bank.

This role will be highly visible and influential, it will interact with senior managers including VP CFO, VP CTO, MDs within Finance and DF and the Finance Management Team and be required to take into consideration business requirements from senior stakeholders across the Bank in conjunction with the Director, HR Operations, Data & Analytics & OD.    

The incumbent will manage a mixed team of business change specialists, Business Analysts and dedicated Subject Matter Experts leading the development of technical project documentation and overseeing the day-to-day management of a portfolio of projects.

In addition, the role holder is also responsible for:

Acting as the interface between The Compass Programme, the Finance department, and the VP CTO Team to ensure effective alignment of activity related to the design, build and implementation of cross-dept. processes.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities

Programme Management

• Supports Director – Enterprise Transformation to deliver projects in the Finance & DF Portfolio Roadmap.
• Responsible for the Finance & DF TOM and SAP technology implementation within the Compass Programme
• Scopes and sizes projects, creating packages of work appropriate to the skill and experience of the team and the broader risk profile of Compass Programme and the Finance department.
• Develops project documentation e.g. project definition document, business case, business requirements document, and functional requirements document ensuring that requirements from impacted departments in the Bank are considered
• Successfully manages large, high-risk projects that impact staff across the Bank e.g Expense system
• Maintains accurate plans, cost estimates and benefit realisation models.
• Monitors workloads and manages capacity across the team to achieve optimal deployment of internal resources and external vendors; reviewing and challenging requests for extra support, and obtaining additional headcount approvals where required.
• Provides project status updates to the EPMO in VP CTO according to reporting schedules and adheres to agreed project methodologies.
• Manages risks and issues appropriately, raising items within the Compass Programme and EPMO.

Relationship Management and Communication

• Develops and utilises strong relationships with internal stakeholders, participating in Bank wide project related initiatives and forums, influencing key decision makers (Corporate Leadership Group and Senior Leadership Group members) across the business facilitating and implementing change.
• Leads the Compass Finance and DF Admin transformation team, ensuring they remain effective, and their capacity is prioritised accordingly
• Collaborates with Internal Communications to ensure the rollout of Finance & DF Admin TOM is communicated in an accurate, timely and user-friendly way.

Continuous improvement

• Proactively provide advice to Finance Operations, and input into change requests for Finances’s core technology applications.
• Ensure user experience design is practised and customer journey-focused solution outcomes are delivered
• Drive the automation and where possible self-service of Finance processes used by staff Bank-wide, being considerate of the end user experience and accompanying support materials.
• Proactively provide advice/coaching on Project Management best practices to up-skill members of EBRD members of staff engaged in project-related activity.

Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Qualifications

Essential

• Proven extensive track record in programme and project management and/or change programmes, including scoping, working in/on and managing complex projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing a team and achieving deliverables through people,
• Experience delivering Finance transformation projects including the migration and/or implementation of SAP Services
• Resilience and experience operating in unstructured environments with high levels of ambiguity, dealing with demanding and fast-paced teams
• Strong relationship-building / managing skills with teams, customers, suppliers, senior managers and other stakeholders from a broad base of cultures, operating across a variety of countries/locations.
• Able to operate at the strategic level and think conceptually, whilst simultaneously working on the details.
• Sound financial management and commercial decision-making skills.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, including the ability to build credibility quickly at the most senior levels of the organisation.
• Strong consultative and negotiation skills combined with the ability to successfully manage internal politics.
• The proactive, problem-solving approach combined demonstrated the ability to challenge in order to deliver business results.

Source: https://jobs.ebrd.com/job/London-Associate-Director,-Programme-Manager,-Finance-Transformation/1154597801/