Enterprise Transformation Lead

Overview

Our Team

Global Operations and Technology Business Management Solutions is spearheading the adoption of Agile, business-aligned product delivery, and instituting long-term, transformative changes, while evolving Technology's multi-year Operating Model.

We are surfacing and prioritizing the best strategic change investment opportunities to improve efficiency, increase productivity, and shift spending to deliver a sustainable advantage through investment in differentiating activities. To enable growth at scale - we are delivering superior technical documentation for the changes to our strategy, operating model, and tools. We'll continue to drive the adoption of shared services, enterprise frameworks/components, and to support end-users and customer.

Be a part of GOTBMS at BNY Mellon and help build the future of how we work.

The Role

As an Enterprise Transformation Lead, you will coordinate cross-functional activity and drive critical path delivery in support of the firm's multi-year transformation strategy. You will provide strategic leadership across large, architecturally complex change efforts, providing assurance that solution designs are fit for purpose and that Technology's transformation commitments are successfully delivered.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze and synthesize data to implement operational improvements and to provide objective assessments of the transformation's progress.
• Identify potential conflicts or overlaps among work streams, raise the issues with stakeholders in regular meetings, and work with owners and executives to achieve the best outcome for the business.
• Help bridge the gap between business and technology functions and help a tech-enabled transformation achieve its goals.
• Establish, schedule, and coordinate change management activities across all transformation working groups, including the documentation of progress/issues/next steps, etc.
• Drive results and enforce minimum transformation framework standards and strategic reporting guidelines to provide executional consistency across all programs of change - e.g., Workstreams, Maturity Guidelines, Year-End (YE) Targets.
• Contribute to the development of an overall transformation plan and roadmap that will support the growth planned across the IT organization. Function as a steward of this vision and roadmap.
• Create a sense of urgency, resiliency, and momentum to deliver material and sustainable results.
• Design, perform and oversee a wide range of larger scale strategic projects, directing and formulating recommendations and obtaining stakeholder buy-in.
• Provide solutions to complex business problems for areas of responsibility where analysis of situations requires an in-depth knowledge of organizational objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in technology, business or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience required. Advanced degree preferred.
• 8-10 years of related experience preferred, experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus.
• Very strong analytical skills, including advanced Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience with tools such as Confluence, JIRA, and data visualization (Tableau, PowerBI) preferred.
• Fluent in technology, analytics, and Agile ways of working.
• Strong knowledge of Operating Model frameworks.
• Ability to learn new technology quickly, demonstrated by experience in an engineering environment.
• Ability to take ambiguous topics and translate into actionable plans working with multiple business and technical stakeholders.
• Strong team player with outstanding communication, organization, and collaboration skills.

Leads and provides innovative direction and guidance for a wide array of activities supporting the improvement of processes and procedures. Provides project/process management consulting, coaching, and training to IT teams and/or Project/Process Office staff across multiple LOBs and/or the enterprise. Assists in setting the direction on approaches/tools to build, streamline, implement, and/or automate key processes. Champions the company's project management methodology, tools and techniques. Leads formal appraisals to assess gaps in the processes used within multiple LOBs, as well as appraisals in accordance with applicable standards (e.g. CBA-IPI or SCE) for LOBs other than his/her own. Counsels one or more LOBs regarding their formal and informal assessments and checkpoints. Develops and manages project plans to support strategic process improvement or IT projects at the LOB or enterprise level. Ensures adherence to quality standards and reviews project deliverables. May manage enterprise-wide IT processes and work flows which maximize efficiency, and comply with regulatory and audit requirements. Manages and develops strategic client partnerships to ensure that service expectations are developed and met. Contributes to the achievement of area objectives, Advanced degree in a related discipline or equivalent work experience required. Authorized Lead Assessor for CBA-IPI, SCE, SCAMPI, ISO 9000 methodology or Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification required, 10+ years of experience in systems and project management required, experience in the securities or financial services industry is a plus..

BNY Mellon is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities/Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans. Our ambition is to build the best global team - one that is representative and inclusive of the diverse talent, clients and communities we work with and serve - and to empower our team to do their best work. We support wellbeing and a balanced life, and offer a range of family-friendly, inclusive employment policies and employee forums.