Key Responsibilities:

- They will also support the applications lead in owning and managing the relationship with the business/clients meet their needs.

- Responsible or the planning and coordination of changes, between Services Operations, the Business and the supplier to minimise the likelihood of any disruption or degradation of service during the lifecycle of the change.

- Build and maintain close relationships with the Business, to understand their goals, strategies, issues, and constraints and be seen as a trusted advisor on how best to introduce and support their technology services

- Responsible for working with the Business, Service Operations and Service management to maintain and create cost effective support solutions for their services, based on Costs and Benefits.

- Provide support options, with full transparency on costs to the business, based on usage, to support the business and clients in deciding the appropriate support solution for their needs

- Work with the Business to develop an effective release window calendar, to enable Service Operations to manage the necessary maintenance and upgrade of the IT estate, whilst minimising the impact to the Business.

- Work with the Business, Clients and Service Operations to agree an emergency release window where required

- To be a point of escalation for Clients or Business to support them in ensuring successful delivery of their services.

- Support the suppliers in developing, defining, and agreeing support packages with the Business, Clients and other suppliers.

- Compile and present regular Service review reports Change and Release Management information to (operational reporting, global KPI's, service reporting) to support senior management decision making and timely interventions working in conjunction with KPMG SIAM team

- Ensure Service Transition processes support all development process in the appropriate way (e.g. Waterfall, Agile, DevOps etc.)

- Identify and work with suppliers to implement any improvement opportunities for the Change and Release Management processes, including how they dovetail with the other Service Management processes and the Business

- Drive adoption of common development/support services for mature solutions with KPMG customers

- Monitor's supplier project quality outputs to minimise operational service issues

- Actively engages with supplier Transition managers to ensure common understanding and awareness of service transition quality plans and processes

- Agrees the service acceptance criteria with KPMG project/programme managers and Business representatives

- Work closely with PMO, EUC and IT Platforms leads, to understand future demand and pipeline of work and ensure readiness of supplier teams in terms of skills, size, locations etc

- Understanding quality of services provided by the department (QA)

- Support with managing existing suppliers, selecting and on-boarding new suppliers (Vendor Management)

Essential:

- Proven experience within a similar role in Service Transition Management in a multi technology environment

- Proven understanding of change management processes in a fully change managed environment (ITIL)

- Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to negotiate and influence wide range of stakeholders

- Experience in transitioning large scale projects covering multiple internal teams and vendors, from development into support

- Experience in designing end-to-end service and support models

- Must have excellent ITIL Service Transition process knowledge and experience

- Bachelors degree required, preferably in Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or Business Administration. Advanced degree preferred.

- Technology experience specifically within knowledge, change and release management

- Experience within a multi-vendor team structure

- Ability to work effectively across all levels of the organisation, leading by example to develop and maintain effective working relationships with a range of partners, delivery teams and stakeholders

- Demonstratable people management skills with the ability to inspire and motivate team members and other colleagues to meet deliverables and adhere to agreed processes and ways of working

- Ensures compliance of the business services impacted by the change

- Understands policy, principles and approach

- Applies understanding and knowledge in project or programme activities

- Develops experience in the use of key change management tools and processes

- Contributes to the work of the community, building successful teams through understanding team styles and influencing as well as motivating team members Demonstrable experience of delivering business change - including matrix management of project/ work stream teams

- Previous exposure to service readiness, introduction or transition management roles

- Able to demonstrate an excellent customer service focussed approach

- Evidence of an understanding of new technologies and their support issues

- Established interpersonal skills, initiative, communication, negotiating, influencing and team working

- Demonstrable experience of managing own workload, against a backdrop of external deadlines

- Demonstrable ability to build and maintain strong interpersonal relationships

- At a minimum, fulfil responsibilities for protecting information and systems to individuals in their areas to comply with the Information Security Management Policy (ISMP).

- The protection of individual assets.

- Administering users (e.g. adding new business users, updating access privileges and revoking user access privileges).

- Developing IT infrastructure and applications

- Performing information security impact assessments, business impact assessments or information risk assessments

- Performing information security testing (including the scoping and management of penetration testing)

- IT and information asset inventory management

- Carrying out specific information security processes as required by the information classification and any applicable Information Protection Plans (for example, regular user access reviews).

- Where applicable, for information security risk management activities, and, in particular, for acceptance of residual risks.

Desirable:

- Hold the ITIL Certificate in IT Service Transition

- Experience of a PRINCE2 Project Delivery environment

- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal

- Professional presentation with strong people skills with all levels across the firm

- Able to gain credibility with senior staff and the trust of all staff

- Degree level education although significant experience and track record with tertiary qualification