Business Change Associate
London
About LPPI (-%About LPPI)
One of the key priorities at LPPI is ensuring that our people work every day in an empowered, supportive, diverse and inclusive culture. Practically, this means recognising and valuing the uniqueness of every individual in terms of background, experience, beliefs and circumstances. This starts with the recruitment process, where we partner with agencies who share our common goal and advertise on a variety of job boards to access the broadest spectrum of candidates. And once successful applicants are on board, we trust our people to work in the way that works best for them which typically involves a mix of office and home working plus an engagement model to ensure frequent two-way feedback.
We are very proud of our culture at LPPI and the benefits it brings to both our people and the business. But don’t just take our word for it! Recently, we invited our entire workforce to describe in three words what is great about us and they said – our people, flexibility and collaboration.
If you would like to join a company that is inclusive and forward-thinking, please read on.
Role Purpose (-%Role purpose)
The Business Change Associate will work alongside the Business Change Manager (BCM) in supporting the business to achieve its vision of “a centrally coordinated, consistent and proportional approach to managing change to support LPPI’s Growth Agenda”.
The Business Change Associate will play a key role in helping deliver LPPI’s business plan through the development of strong relationships across the business functions and showcasing the Change Framework, ensuring it is applied appropriately across all types of change.
Key Responsibilities (-%Key responsibilities)
Support the Business Change Office
• Assessment of new Change Briefs and Business Cases – providing support to the business requestor regarding process and documentation, helping them where necessary to articulate the need, benefits, risks and costs.
• Drafting Change Briefs and Business Cases – taking the lead on behalf of a business requestor to produce the relevant documentation for approval.
• Reviewing project management documentation – ensuring that project documents/deliverables are of the required standard and in-line with the Change Framework.
• Provide support to PMs where needed for Project Working Groups and Project Steering Committees – assist with the preparation of materials if necessary and liaise with business stakeholders to ensure tasks are completed.
• Oversight of all project financials to enable a summarised view to be produced and maintained for the COO and ExCo that shows forecast vs actual spend in line with the allocated and approved budget.
• Oversight and interrogation of project status reports to ensure the required standard is being met
• Oversight and interrogation of Risks, Issues, Dependencies and Change Requests across all initiatives to ensure appropriate treatment, escalation and action and is being taken.
• Own the resource map, ensuring all initiatives have forecast resourcing plans to assist with scheduling.
• Provide support for audit assessments of the Change Framework (RCSA and Internal Audit), preparing evidence and liaising with auditors where required.
• Take ownership of the BCO intranet page ensuring that it is relevant, informative and provides access to enable the business to deliver its Change initiatives.
• Take ownership of BCO communications e.g. intranet posts, newsletters etc. to enable the BCO to keep the business fully informed of all Change activities.
Project Management
• Provide project management on smaller ‘adaptive changes’ in line with the Change Framework, producing PIDs, project plans, requirements etc.
• Acting as a ‘go-to’ for initiatives that are being led by business resources, providing guidance on project management principles, best approach and the Change Framework
Business Analysis
• Provide analysis on proposed new initiatives, assisting the business with options analysis and proposal for recommendation to ExCo
Requirements for the role (-%Requirements for the role)
• Experience in providing support on initiatives across multiple business functions at an investment management company.
• Prior experience working in a project office or similar project management role would be advantageous.
• A good understanding of project management principles, methods, and techniques.
• Ability to think creatively and to work independently.
• Ability to communicate well to a range of different stakeholders.
• Good conduct that is consistent with the LPPI values - aligned behaviours.
Reasonable adjustment will be made to working arrangements to accommodate a person with a disability who otherwise would be prevented from undertaking the work.