Senior Change Lead - Operations Platform
Senior Change Lead - Operations Platform
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Job Description
At M&G our purpose is to give everyone real confidence to put their money to work.As an international savings and investments business with roots stretching back more than 170 years we offer a range of financial products and services through Asset Management Life and Wealth. All three operating segments work together to deliver attractive financial outcomes for our clients and superior shareholder returns.
Through our behaviours of telling it like it is owning it now and moving it forward together with care and integrity; we are creating an exceptional place to work for exceptional talent.
We will consider flexible working arrangements for any of our roles and also offer work place accommodations to ensure you have what you need to effectively deliver in your role.
We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G plc underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender ethnicity age sexual orientation nationality disability or long term condition we are looking to attract promote and retain exceptional people.
The Role:
The Operations Platform team is a central team within Investment Transformation and Technology reporting to the Investment COO with a global remit. The team provides support to the other Operations Teams in the M&G Plc Business and works with teams across M&G to implement change. The team aims to enable business growth support business as usual unlock operational efficiency drive improvements to both client and colleague experience and drive platform modernisation and simplification.
The Senior Change Lead is a critical role within the Investment Platform. The role holder will be technology partner to one or more business areas. Depending on the requirements the role holder may identify business requirements propose solutions (either process or technology solutions) make changes to Aladdin directly lead development through our engineering squads (non-Aladdin demand) or other third parties.
The individual will be required to:
Understand business requirements and propose solutions to those requirements focussing on utilisation of Aladdin where possible
Work in partnership with technology teams both onshore and offshore to deliver functionality that is not available in the core platform
Identify improvements that address efficiency and scalability or reduction of risk
Develop a close working relationship with Operations business stakeholders providing regular updates on progress
Manage and maintain change backlogs ensuring priorities and critical requirements are highlighted
Work at both a higher level managing and co-ordinating the delivery of initiatives or work in the detail to define and document requirements process etc as required.
Own all Aladdin related incidents through to successful resolution
Be the escalation point to BRS where technical or Aladdin specific assistance is required.
Key Responsibilities Required:
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
Aladdin
Provide support for all Operations related Aladdin Change requests and BAU escalations
Driving Aladdin adoption across the Operations teams by providing training on Aladdin and the end to end workflows
Be a Subject Matter (SME) expert for the Investment teams.
Business Analysis
Develop a close working relationship with Operations business stakeholders in order to determine functionality gaps and enhancement requirements
Recommend solutions beyond current environments
Provide input into strategic product selection and target operating model definition
Help users define user acceptance testing criteria and assist the user testing process
Process and Workflow
Promote best practice and global consistency
Highlight impacts priorities and critical requirements to the business and clients
Identify impactful changes
Deliver against the strategic annual and quarterly plan and ensuring demand is prioritised to meet business objectives
Incident/Problem Management
Manage and maintain incidents enhancements issues and risks log via Jira
To identify risks issues and weaknesses
To identify key timings dependencies interfaces and human/technology interactions
Take initiative and develop creative solutions for solving problems
Analyse and summarize findings across all regions where applicable
Embedding and adoption
Working closely with customers to ensure that new systems and process are embedded effectively
Work with customers to ensure efficient and scalable use of UDAs
Support
Assist in the definition of new business requirements and the design of new processes. To aide in the delivery of incremental change to the global Operations team
To maintain relations with the Operations teams and act as a conduit relaying their requirements and feeding them into BlackRock Solutions / Investment Operations Change
Be part of the overall Investment Platform community within Investment Operations.
Experience and Skills:
Strong knowledge of the relevant systems data and operations processes within an Asset Management or similar organisation Aladdin is a must
Experience as a change leader within Asset Management or similar organisation
Experience working in an asset management or similar organisation with strong knowledge of the end to end investment process (knowledge of Operations would be beneficial)
Familiarity with broad range of investment products and instruments
Experience of working with internal teams and third parties to ensure that requirements are met within agreed timescales
Good inter-personal and organisations skills
Ability to negotiate pragmatic solutions that meet conflicting business requirements.
Problem solving ability within a complex investment management environment
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Ability to define and document business requirements and process flows to a high standard;
Experience of providing challenge to requirements and proposed solutions
Ability to operate under pressure and deliver to demanding deadlines
Agile delivery expertise
Recruiter: Sarah Hawkins
Job Level: Manager or Expert
We have a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture at M&G plc underpinned by our policies and our employee-led networks who provide networking opportunities advice and support for the diverse communities our colleagues represent. Regardless of gender ethnicity age sexual orientation nationality disability or long term condition we are looking to attract promote and retain exceptional people. We also welcome those who take part in military service and those returning from career breaks.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
