Adv Principal, Change Management

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As one of the world's leading asset managers, Invesco is dedicated to helping investors worldwide achieve their financial objectives. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world.

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Job Description

Your Team

Investment Services Operations provides global end to end middle to back-office support for trade management,portfolio operations and data management, reconciliation, corporate action, bank loans, fund services and reporting to support Invesco's investment related activities.

The team focuses to provide quality service with highly disciplined operations, to deliver responsive support for investment processes, new products and instruments, to be responsive to changing economic, regulatory and risk environments, to manage and deliver quality data in accordance with "SMART" data principles.

Your Role

Advance Principal - Change Management is a key role within the Change Management function supporting Investment & Distribution Services. As a Project / Change Manager, you will be responsible for executing projects / initiatives and driving change in a diverse role that includes strategy planning / execution, analytics, continuous improvement and other key governance for the function, while managing stakeholders' expectations.

The role involves collaborating with internal functions and subject matter experts, to ensure project / change is delivered in a timely, engaging, and effective manner.

The right individual will be a 'global problem solver', with a good understanding of Investment and Distribution Services and / or Investment-related activities.

This person should be a dynamic & critical thinker and a self-starter who encourages confidence and credibility.

Successful candidates will possess the professional competence and interpersonal skills to command the respect of senior leaders.

Other skills should include dedication to continual improvement in execution, a collaborative approach to win internal support, and influencing skills to work with global partners.

Manage a number of projects through the full project life cycle from the strategic project planning, execution and on to tactical activities

Ensure projects are well defined, aligned to business goals, well documented and appropriately reported

Ensure all risks and issues are understood, raised, prioritized and escalated (if appropriate) with sufficient time to enable resolution & / or independent decisions

Work with business, ops and support (Risk, Audit, Tech etc.) functions to understand the guidelines and implications of project execution

Design, approval and implementation of detailed operating model changes

Ability to extract information, at all levels of the organization (individual contributor to senior management), to identify core problems / needs

Ability to conduct complex analysis and present data & insights in a meaningful ways

Ability to write system requirement specifications to include use cases, data models, assumptions, and mock-ups, when necessary

Prioritization of projects and project deliverables in line with functional strategy and stakeholder's requirements

Work closely with business functions to pro-actively identify & define opportunities for continuous improvement; build diagnostic and develop business cases

Management of Continuous Improvement agenda / drive and shaping up project opportunities

Drive development of new CI tools and methodologies

Assist in the definition of performance metrics for all projects as well as business functions and drive governance around the same with stakeholders

Direct and co-ordinate change, risk, and communications management around the improvement projects underway and planned

Communicate project status frequently up and down the organization and suggest changes to use available capacity efficiently

Optimize the Continuous Improvement framework & establish control procedures

Contribute to various governance forums as appropriate

Must take ownership and accountability of working as primary point of contact for all Continuous Improvement initiatives, enhancements and projects being delivered from Hyderabad

Collaborate with cross functional team to resolve issues or improve the process for future state

Key proficiencies

Strong customer focus with knack for quick actions

Ability to identify and drive tactical plan aligning to strategic resolution

Excellent, strong and precise communication skills and ability to create pitch for audience at all levels

Being able to stay on top of the big picture and view inter-connectivity of tasks and solutions.

Ability to take care of flexibility and change without getting flustered, especially in quickly evolving production & client scenarios

Ability to develop trust with various internal and external facing teams and clients.

Encourage others : Demonstrate a deep passion for technology and financial domain and build an ability to tap into the creative minds of the project team

Maintain a broad understanding of our systems, customers and business goals.

The Experience You Bring

8+ years of Project Management / Change Implementation experience, or equivalent experience preferably in Financial or Investment Banking Sector

Project management experience would be preferred with strategic planning and development experience

Experience in delivering change management solutions in highly regulated and complex financial services organizations

Strong stakeholder management with experience of building partnerships and consulting effectively with leadership Strong knowledge in agile project methodologies

Ability to facilitate global collaborations by articulating strategic vision through dynamic presentations

Strong written and verbal communication, interpersonal and conflict management skills

Ability to conduct complex analysis and present data in a meaningful way

Open minded, flexible, and willing to listen to and incorporate other people's opinions and a strong "out-of-thebox" thinker who challenges status-quo

Ability to handle ambiguity and make sound decision (and ability to assess risk) even when data or information on hand are limited

Financial domain expertise, particularly, familiarity with US financial markets. Familiarity with US financial planning / wealth management is a big plus.

Academic requirements

MBA from reputed university

Certified PMP & Lean / Six-sigma practitioner

Certification / Experience on Data Visualization tools would be preferred

Certification / Experience on Automation tools is an added advantage

Full Time / Part Time

Full time

Worker Type

Employee

Job Exempt (Yes / No)

Yes

Workplace Model

At Invesco, our workplace model supports our culture and meets the needs of our clients while providing flexibility our employees value. As a full-time employee, compliance with the workplace policy means working with your direct manager to create a schedule where you will work in your designated office at least three days a week, with two days working outside an Invesco office.

Why Invesco

In Invesco, we act with integrity and do meaningful work to create impact for our stakeholders. We believe our culture is stronger when we all feel we belong, and we respect each other's identities, lives, health, and well-being. We come together to create better solutions for our clients, our business and each other by building on different voices and perspectives. We nurture and encourage each other to ensure our meaningful growth, both personally and

professionally.

We believe in diverse, inclusive, and supportive workplace where everyone feels equally valued, and this starts at the top with our senior leaders having diversity and inclusion goals. Our global focus on diversity and inclusion has grown exponentially and we encourage connection and community through our many employee-led Business Resource Groups (BRGs).

What's in it for you?

As an organization we support personal needs, diverse backgrounds and provide internal networks, as well as opportunities to get involved in the community and in the world.

Our benefit policy includes but not limited to :

Competitive Compensation

Flexible, Hybrid Work

30 days' Annual Leave + Public Holidays

Life Insurance

Retirement Planning

Group Personal Accident Insurance

Medical Insurance for Employee and Family

Annual Health Check-up

26 weeks Maternity Leave

Paternal Leave

Adoption Leave

Near site Childcare Facility

Employee Assistance Program

Study Support

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

ESG Commitments and Goals

Business Resource Groups

Career Development Programs

Mentoring Programs

Invesco Cares

Dress for your Day

In Invesco, we offer development opportunities that help you thrive as a lifelong learner in a constantly evolving business environment and ensure your constant growth. Our AI enabled learning platform delivers curated content based on your role and interest. We ensure our manager and leaders also have many opportunities to advance their skills and competencies that becomes pivotal in their continuous pursuit of performance excellence.

To know more about us

About Invesco :

https : / / www.invesco.com / corporate / en / home.html

About our Culture :

https : / / www.invesco.com / corporate / en / about-us / our-culture.html

About our D&I policy :

https : / / www.invesco.com / corporate / en / our-commitments / diversity-and-inclusion.html

About our CR program :

https : / / www.invesco.com / corporate / en / our-commitments / corporate-responsibility.html

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