Senior Manager, Finance Change Ops

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The Senior Manager, Finance Change Ops for BMS will be a highly collaborative and influential Finance business partner. This exceptional leader will act as a “player-coach,” overseeing and directing change efforts across the finance organization, consult and work with finance leadership to develop strategic engagement plans and oversee and develop the finance organization’s change management programs. The Senior Manager, Finance Change Ops is expected to demonstrate the following attributes:

• Ability to navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Ability to manage and influence stakeholders in a global environment
• Strong business acumen and understanding of organizational challenges
• Ability to make the complex more easily understood through written narrative, visuals representations and clear presentation decks
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to deliver executive presentations
• Experience and knowledge of change management principles, methodologies, and tools
• Proven track record of balancing broad enterprise change strategies with pragmatic on the ground solutions that increase adoption and usage of desired change efforts
• Recognizing and accommodating diverse regional and organizational needs in change strategies

Successful candidates will possess excellent leadership skills, inspiring and motivating team members to deliver exceptional results.

A minimum of 7-9 years of experience is required with at least 4 years in communications or change management and at least 2 years in a GCC environment.

The position will be based in BMS’s Hyderabad Location (expected 50% in-person) with minimal travel expected.

Key Responsibilities and Major Duties:

• Direct the coordination of change efforts across Finance Organization, ensuring that a common vision is articulated, communicated and continually reinforced

• Conduct change impact assessments and convert to actionable steps to prepare the organization for integration
• Lead team to develop accompanying change management tools and resources
• Enable leaders with best practices on how to drive change within their organizations and among themselves and their employees
• Analyze changing skill sets, identify gaps and make recommendations to senior management on plan forward 

• Consult across the organization and work with Finance leadership to develop strategic engagement plans that are most appropriately targeted to provide the greatest impact to the organization

• Translate Finance and enterprise initiatives and complex concepts into compelling and engaging communications across various forums
• Define and launch appropriate strategic engagement initiatives to support vision

• Oversee and develop the Finance organization’s change management program in alignment with business priorities

• Conduct large-scale change programs that maximize corporate, business, and functional priorities and objectives
• Implement integrated organizational change management structures to minimize risk and encourage user adoption
• Develop methodologies and tools using the Change@BMS levers that enable smooth and seamless organization transitions to better realize the benefits associated with strategic business programs
• Develop content, key messages for Town Halls and other key meetings for engaging organization

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn’t perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

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On-site Protocol

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