Business Change Lead - Investment Banking

JR United Kingdom; York; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Business Change Lead to support the establishment of a new IT Asset Company. This role focuses on leading the business readiness workstream, emphasizing strong analytical and communication skills, with a background in financial services highly valued. Your expertise will guide essential transformation activities, ensuring alignment across key departments and facilitating successful change management.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Business Change Lead or Project Lead in transformation programs.
• Background in financial services sector preferred.
• Ability to lead teams in documenting requirements and impacts.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional teams to assess impacts on the new operating model.
• Facilitate workshops with stakeholders to gather requirements and identify risks.
• Monitor and report progress on workshop outcomes and address risks.

Skills

Facilitation

Communication

Analytical Skills

Stakeholder Engagement

Documentation

Education

Project Management Certification (PRINCE2 or PMP)

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04.06.2025

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Business Change Lead - Investment Banking

• London / City (2 days onsite)
• 12 month contract

Overview

We are looking for a skilled and proactive Business Change Readiness Lead to support the creation of a new IT Asset Company. This role involves leading the business readiness workstream in collaboration with cross-functional teams to assess the operational and process changes resulting from the transfer of IT assets to the new entity.

The ideal candidate will bring strong facilitation, communication, and analytical skills, with the ability to guide business functions through complex transformation activities and ensure alignment across key departments

Role and Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional business teams to assess impacts on the target operating model following the establishment of the new IT Asset Company.
• Organise and facilitate workshops with stakeholders and subject matter experts to gather requirements, evaluate business process impacts, and identify risks and interdependencies.
• Produce clear and comprehensive documentation of workshop outputs, business impact assessments, and action plans.
• Monitor and report progress on workshop outcomes, including capturing and addressing risks, assumptions, issues, and decisions.
• Collaborate with business and IT teams to embed robust processes and controls into the new operating model, ensuring smooth asset transfer and ongoing business-as-usual support.
• Provide regular updates to the Project Manager and contribute to governance forums and reporting.
• Assess and support any additional training needs arising from operational changes.
• Partner with project managers, technical leads, and operational stakeholders to ensure project timelines are aligned with business readiness activities.
• Contribute to the development and rollout of operational readiness runbooks in partnership with business stakeholders.
• Ensure all service level agreement (SLA) requirements are discussed, agreed upon, and documented with relevant departments.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Proven experience as a Business Change Lead, Project Lead, or Business Analyst in large-scale transformation programs, ideally involving the setup of IT asset structures.
• Background in the financial services sector.
• Strong skills in workshop facilitation and stakeholder engagement.
• Demonstrated ability to lead business teams in identifying and documenting requirements and impacts related to process and system changes.
• High level of business analysis and documentation capability to support target state planning.
• Ability to translate business inputs into structured deliverables such as impact assessments, process maps, and readiness plans.
• Excellent communication, analytical, and organisational skills.
• Experience working across departments such as Finance, IT, Procurement, Legal, Risk, and Compliance.

Desirable Qualifications and Skills

• Project management certifications such as PRINCE2 or PMP.
• Experience with Lean Six Sigma or other process improvement methodologies.