Int. Business Change Analyst to lead and manage change initiative projects to meet business, budget, and schedule objectives for a large financial bank- 45879

Job Type: Contract
Positions to fill: 1
Start Date: Jul 04, 2022
Job End Date: Dec 26, 2022
Pay Rate: Hourly: Negotiable
Job ID: 120753
Location: Toronto
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Job ID: 45879
# of positions: 1
Duration: 6 months, extension and conversion possible 
Interview Process: 1 round, potentially 2 (WebEx)
Travel Required: Toronto, Hybrid model from June onwards



Summary:

Change Management Analyst plays an important role in leading and managing change initiative projects to meet business, budget, and schedule objectives. This person’s responsibility is to identify potential employee, departmental and cross business impacts driven by changes to technology. Should be comfortable with technical changes to business processes, systems, and technology, organization structures and job roles. This individual identifies impacted stakeholders, assesses the level of change likely to result from technology shifts and creates and implements change management plans and strategies that maximize employee productivity, engagement and minimize employee resistance. The specialist adopts, utilizes and attains proficiency on all changes affecting employees in the company to achieve business results.

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Identifying key stakeholders driving change and impacted by its technology outputs
• Documenting a stakeholder impact plan
• Applying a well-structured change management plan, and a methodology for implementing any changes to employees driven by technology projects.
• Developing a change management plan considering the project impacts how employees perform their job functions, customers and business units interact
• Conducting surveys, impact studies, readiness assessments, training, communication, and implementation plans, evaluating results and presenting findings in an easy-to-understand and logical manner.
• Identifying potential employee-side risks and anticipating the resistance and developing specific plans to address or mitigate the concerns.
• Establishing and managing a team of change champions from all impacted levels, including executive and user groups for input and feedback.
• Developing a set of targeted and actionable change management plans, which includes communication plan, coaching and training plans, sponsor roadmap and resistance management plan.
• Creating and managing measurement systems to track utilization, adoption, and proficiency of employee changes.
• Building and supporting the implementation of plans by business leaders and employee-facing managers.
• Working with project teams in integrating change actions into the actual overall project plan.
• Identifying performance and resistance gaps and working to develop and execute corrective actions.
• Working with training, communication, OD, and HR specialists to formulate particular activities and plans to support in the project implementation.
• Creating and activating reinforcement mechanisms and jubilations of success.

Must Have:
  • 5+ years experience as a Business Analyst 
  • Change management analyst experience
  • Data/Analytical experience
  • Agile experience
  • Confluence
  • Jira

Nice to have:
  • Cloud experience
  • Azure experience
  • Prosci certification