Senior Transformation & Change Lead

CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen); Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

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

This role connects early business demand to the right transformation path by clarifying business needs, understanding alignment to firm priorities, identifying dependencies, supporting readiness, and assessing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; combination of relevant experience, education and training may be accepted in lieu of degree.
• 4 years of professional services or public accounting experience.
• Advanced technical knowledge of CLA processes preferred.
• Travel: <10% travel.
• Experience working with stakeholders to clarify needs, gather inputs, document decisions, and move work through a defined process.
• Experience supporting change deliverables such as stakeholder impact assessments, communication plans, readiness plans, training support materials, adoption tracking, or change status updates.

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.
• 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

Stakeholder management

Business analysis

Ambiguity handling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

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

This role connects early business demand to the right transformation path by clarifying business needs, understanding alignment to firm priorities, identifying dependencies, supporting readiness, and assessing