Finance Change Manager - #1777650

JOB TITLE: Finance Change Manager

SALARY: £65,385 - £72,650

HOURS: Full time

LOCATION(S): Leeds, Halifax, Cardiff and Newport

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

Are you eager to be part of a dynamic team, driving high profile change in Retail Finance?

Do you desire to harness and grow your skills and capabilities in Change Management?

If so, we want you in our team!

The Retail Finance Change team are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Finance Change Manager to join us.

As a Finance Change Manager, you will play a crucial role in leading the delivery of change initiatives impacting Retail Finance. You will work collaboratively cross function to manage risk and implications related to Finance Systems, Data, and processes effectively.

Day to day you will:

• Lead Change Delivery: Lead the delivery of multiple change initiatives, understanding the impact across data, people & processes, and managing seamless integration into Retail Finance,
• Dependency Management: Identify, assess, and effectively manage risks and dependencies to ensure successful outcomes.
• Change Expertise: Provide change expertise and support to the wider Retail Finance community, advocating for agile change practices across the team.
• Develop Relationships: Build and maintain strong and effective working relationships with key collaborators across Retail Finance, and other business areas to support the effectively delivery of change initiatives.
• Support team activities: Contribute to development, learning and process improvement within the team, fostering culture of continuous improvement.
• Invest in Personal Growth: Actively respond to individual and team objectives, by enhancing personal performance and growing your skills and capabilities.

About us

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you'll need

• Proven experience in delivering change, preferably in a financial environment
• Strong stakeholder management skills, to build and sustain long-term relationships.
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to resolve conflict, build consensus and influence positive outcomes.
• Ability to coordinate across multiple teams to develop roadmaps that help the team achieve its priorities and fulfil its business plans.
• Strong problem-solving skills, using experience to address critical risks/issues/dependencies as they arise and ensuring resolution within agreed timescales.
• Demonstrate the right values and behaviours and encouraging this in team members.

Experience of the following will also be useful to the role:

• A strong Finance background, with solid understanding of Finance Systems and processes.
• An understanding of Retail products.
• Experience of Agile tools and methodologies.
• Line management experience.

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch! We'd love to hear from you!