Senior Transformation & Change Lead

CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen); Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Dental

Vision

401k

Wellness program

Job summary

CLA is seeking a Senior - Transformation to support transformation priorities by evaluating, organizing, and moving opportunities through the business navigation process and supporting change management activities to prepare for, adopt, and sustain change.

This role requires business acumen, change management knowledge, strong follow-through, and the ability to bring structure to early-stage or unclear requests. Travel is expected to be <10%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree is required.
• 4 years of professional services or public accounting experience required.
• Advanced technical knowledge of CLA processes is preferred.
• Travel: <10% travel.
• Experience working with stakeholders to clarify needs, gather inputs, document decisions, and move work through a defined process preferred.

Responsibilities

• Review and assess business opportunities, ideas, and transformation requests.
• Clarify the business problem, expected value, impacted stakeholders, dependencies, risks, and decision needs.
• Support business case readiness by gathering inputs and preparing clear summaries for review.
• Identify change impacts, stakeholder needs, readiness considerations, communication needs, resistance themes, and adoption risks.
• Support development of change deliverables, including stakeholder impact assessments, change impact assessments, communication plans, readiness plans, training support materials, adoption tracking, and status updates.
• Help prepare stakeholders and impacted teams for upcoming changes by supporting communications, readiness activities, meeting preparation, and follow-up.
• Track opportunities through the business navigation process, including status, owners, actions, risks, dependencies, and decisions.
• Prepare materials and follow-up items for roadmap, governance, prioritization, investment, or change readiness discussions.
• Help ensure opportunities are routed to the right path, including approval, prioritization, deferral, further discovery, change support, implementation support, or closure.
• Maintain accurate documentation, trackers, action items, risks, dependencies, change impacts, and decision logs.
• Identify process gaps and recommend improvements to strengthen visibility, alignment, readiness, adoption, and execution handoff.
• Strong business acumen and ability to connect requests to firm priorities and transformation outcomes.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

CLA is seeking a Senior - Transformation to support transformation priorities by evaluating, organizing, and moving opportunities through the business navigation process and supporting change management activities to prepare for, adopt, and sustain change.

This role requires business acumen, change management knowledge, strong follow-through, and the ability to bring structure to early-stage or unclear requests. Travel is expected to be <10%.