Senior Transformation & Change Lead

CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen); Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

CLA is seeking a Senior - Transformation in the United States to lead evaluation, organization, and movement of opportunities through the business navigation process while supporting change management activities. The role emphasizes connecting early demand to the right transformation path, clarifying needs, and aligning with firm priorities.

The ideal candidate will combine business acumen with change-management knowledge, bring structured thinking to ambiguous requests, and drive adoption

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; combination of experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.
• 4 years of professional services or public accounting experience required.
• Advanced knowledge of CLA processes preferred.
• Travel: <10% travel.

Responsibilities

• Review and assess business opportunities 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.
• Understanding of intake, governance, prioritization, business case, roadmap, portfolio, or transformation processes
• Knowledge of change management fundamentals, including stakeholder impact, readiness, communications, resistance, adoption, training, and sustainment
• Ability to assess change impacts and identify stakeholder, readiness, communication, and adoption needs.
• Ability to work through ambiguity, ask thoughtful questions, and organize information clearly
• Ability to identify risks, dependencies, gaps, open decisions, and change-related impacts.

Skills

Change management

Business acumen

Stakeholder management

Decision making

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

CLA is seeking a Senior - Transformation in the United States to lead evaluation, organization, and movement of opportunities through the business navigation process while supporting change management activities. The role emphasizes connecting early demand to the right transformation path, clarifying needs, and aligning with firm priorities.

The ideal candidate will combine business acumen with change-management knowledge, bring structured thinking to ambiguous requests, and drive adoption