A short term contract within the banking environment, with view to more opportunities .A Senior Engaging roleOur client has approved a new version of its Strategy Management Policy. This has created a measurable gap between what the Policy prescribes and what the Strategy and Transformation Office is currently equipped to execute, a gap reinforced by internal audit findings on unapproved governance documents.
Duties & Responsibilities
The serices of a suitably qualified consultant, under the direction of the Strategy and Transformation Office and supported by Senior Quality Assurance, to review, define, document and integrate the end-to-end strategy management value chain as a closed-loop management system.This must cover capability assessment, process mapping and integration, governance evaluation, re-baselining of six procedure areas, target-state framework definition and a stakeholder engagement model. To produce eight approval-ready, policy-aligned and audit-defensible artefacts within a compressed six to eight -week window, culminating in a consolidated operating model and structured handover, with approval itself remaining clients accountability.
Desired Experience & Qualification
Skills required
Strategy management and execution expertise - deep working knowledge of closed-loop / Office of Strategy Management (Kaplan & Norton Execution Premium) practice so the target state can be configured and adapted at speed rather than invented, plus familiarity with enterprise performance, portfolio and programme management disciplines.
Process mapping and modelling - fluency in a recognised notation (BPMN / Visio or equivalent) with the ability to produce value-chain maps, process flows, inputs/outputs, decision points, hand-offs and RACI/ownership models to a consistent, approval-ready standard.
Governance and policy acumen - ability to assess terms of reference, mandates, decision rights, escalation paths and reporting lines against King IV principles and to re-baseline procedures so they demonstrably align to the approved Policy and withstand audit scrutiny.
Procedure and technical writing - strong document-development skills to re-baseline six procedure areas and draft framework, engagement-model and operating-model artefacts clearly, concisely and in an approval-ready format on organisation's templates.
Workshop facilitation and elicitation - the capability to run time-boxed, pre-read-driven working sessions, extract and validate content live, log decisions in-session and keep a single-threaded stakeholder group moving to agreement under compressed review windows.
Pace, autonomy and quality discipline - the self-sufficiency to pre-populate current-state maps and a gap register before kick-off, work full-time and independently across concurrent workstreams, maintain action/issue/risk/decision logs, and apply rigorous version control and audit-trail discipline throughout.
Payments / financial-services context (preferred) - prior exposure to a regulated clearing, switching or banking environment, which shortens the ramp-up on terminology, governance expectations and assurance sensitivities.
Desired Skills:
Strategy management and execution expertise
Process mapping and modelling
Governance and policy acumen
Procedure and technical writing
Workshop facilitation and elicitation
Payments / financial-services context (preferred) - prior exposure to a regulated clearing
switching or banking environment
Desired Work Experience:
More than 10 years
Desired Qualification Level:
Degree