Senior Advisor - Strategy and Planning

What Youll Bring:

Were looking for a Senior Advisor - Strategy and Planning to join our growing team.

Responsible for defining strategy for implementing/operating technical centers of IT excellence throughout major segments/functions in GT. Direct all activities tactical and operational for critical technical business operations. Aligns and calibrates the organizations technology deployment strategy with its business strategy.

Day to Day Youll Be:

• Partners internally with senior management or externally with industry leaders or specialists. Provides consultation on niche areas of the business that require in-depth analysis on multi faceted dimensions.
• Creates designs or develops new ideas products services or processes that shapes future business plans in a specialized area of expertise. Consults with Organization leaders on new developments.
• Recognized as advanced individual contributor within the organization both within and beyond own function.
• Works without supervision. Complete latitude for independent judgment. May mentor less experienced peers and display leadership as needed.
• Creates and designs new applications services products or processes for the future state of the organization.
• Sets objectives and executes results that have a significant impact within the context of a wider operational area.
• Communication involves providing thought leadership and innovation that influences change and advancement of the industry and/or profession.
• Internal contacts are typically senior management international leaders and frequently the CEO and Executive Level staff.
• External contacts are typically senior management of Transunion clients customers vendors government agencies or media relations.
• Leads large projects/initiatives that impact the business on a domestic or international scale.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Sophisticated expertise and in-depth understanding of business and functional underlying concepts and principles.
• Ability to integrate highly sophisticated understanding of concepts theories and principles with deep knowledge of technical and organizational procedures to approach complex problems.
• Anticipates internal and/or external business challenges and/or regulatory issues.
• Operates with no supervision in a complex environment.
• Program and Project Planning - ideally cloud transformation projects and programs - 5-8 Years.
• Status and progress reporting & Key Performance Metrics - 5-8 Years.
• Legal & Compliance analysis as it relates to IT projects - 3-4 Years.
• Financial analysis and IT service negotiations - 5-7 Years.
• International project experience a plus especially in India HK South Africa UK Latin America and Canada - 3-5 years.
• Background in software development infrastructure software testing and/or software architecture - 5-7 years preferred.
• Experience with GCP (Google Cloud) or AWS cloud migrations or technologies high desired.
• Bachelors degree - MIS Business Mathmatics Computer Science Engineering Economics Finance or Natural Science (Chemistry Biology etc.) required.
• Masters degree - MBA MIS Computer Science Software Engineering preferred.

Impact Youll Make:

Whats In It For you
At TransUnion you will be joining a friendly forward thinking global business.
As well as an excellent salary and bonus scheme or commission scheme (if joining our sales teams) our benefits package comes with:

• 26 days annual leave bank holidays (increasing with service)
• Global paid wellness days off a bonus day off to celebrate your birthday
• A generous contributory pension scheme access to the TransUnion Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Private health care a variety of physical mental and financial fitness wellbeing programmes such as access to mindfulness tools
• Access to our diversity forums and communities so you can get involved in causes close to your heart

TransUnion a place to grow:
If theres something on the list of essential / desirable skills that you cant quite tick off dont let that put you off applying. We are open to exploring training and development opportunities for the right candidate to ensure you are successful.
We know imposter syndrome is real lets confront it so we can continue to grow and thrive together.

Flexibility at TU:
We recognise that our people need the freedom to balance their day-to-day lives with their work. This is why weve set out to create inclusive and flexible policies and practices for you to accommodate all your responsibilities and needs: children family and beyond. If the role is advertised as full time dont let this stop you from applying. Let us know if youre looking for a part time or flexible working arrangement and we can discuss this with you.