About the position
A short term contract within the banking environment, with view to more opportunities .
A Senior Engaging role
Our 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
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Desired Qualification Level:
