Vice President - Transformation

Key Responsibilities:

- Build capabilities both by breadth & depth, identify & transformational opportunities to simplify our operating model & also globalize process to support all regions (UK, Europe, APAC & US).

- Use strong problem-solving skills to address challenges across multiple functions, often navigating unclear scenarios to drive practical, strategic solutions.

- Lead the planning and execution of transformation projects, managing timelines, resources, and cross-functional coordination to deliver successful outcomes.

- Partner with cross functional business teams and Technology to shape and deliver initiatives, ensuring cohesive execution across departments.

- Build positive relationships with senior stakeholders within the organisation.

- Challenge the status quo, thinking differently and expressing new ideas.

- Assist & support Asset Management Leadership in building a high performance culture and drive people agenda to support India 2.0 ambition

- Support AM Director in building long term strategy & also support BAU business management to drive strategic initiatives and functional objectives.

Transformation Project Management:

resources, and expected benefits and outcomes.

- Collaborate with the Project Sponsor to communicate project outcomes and benefits across the organization to garner support and buy-in.

- Develop and maintain high-quality project plans with built-in risk mitigation strategies, ensuring responsibilities are assigned to project resources on daily/weekly basis.

- Evaluate delivery options and team performance, providing feedback and adjusting plans regularly against scope, schedule, budget, risks, outcomes, and benefits.

- Provide regular forecasts of future Change and Business-as-Usual (BAU) resources required for the project.

- Guide the project team to ensure delivery of required benefits and outcomes within specified tolerances of time, cost, quality, scope, benefit, and risk.

- Conduct regular lessons learned sessions during the project lifecycle, implementing agreed recommendations and sharing insights with the broader Project Management community.

- Adhere to governance standards, including Project Change Standard and guidelines, maintaining accurate RACI and RAID logs and other project records.

- Produce timely management information and ensure completion and sign-off of mandatory documentation (e.g., business case, requirement documents/user stories, stage gates, test plans,

change requests, closure documents) at appropriate stages.

- Forecast future external costs, understand drivers of project cost variance, and take actions to control costs within budgets or raise change control.

- Monitor and report progress to impacted stakeholders (e.g., sponsor(s), programme manager, Change Programme Directors, steering committee), including ongoing business case viability.

- Independently identify and manage issues, risks, and dependencies, making recommendations for mitigation and escalating as necessary to maintain project progress.

- Complete handover to BAU and business benefits realization activities to close off projects.

- Manage resource planning and motivate the project team to ensure high standards of output, focusing on customer satisfaction and delivery through ongoing guidance, mentoring, and coaching.

- Manage relationships with required teams (e.g., Technology, external suppliers, and other business functions) to achieve timely delivery.

- Participate in enhancing change capability across the firm by sharing project and change management disciplines with the wider business.

- Mentor and coach team members to improve delivery efficacy and support their personal development.

Market & Capability Intelligence

- Build thought leadership content on capability models for business transformation

- Demonstrate strong business acumen, commercial sense, and understanding of business drivers

- Build Industry network, develop external awareness & market intelligence.

- Partner with AM forums, FinTech Community, Consultants, etc to bring outside perspective

- Stay informed about relevant regulatory requirements and appropriate industry standards

Key Accountabilities:

- Applies judgement to deliver outcomes, evaluating a range of potential solutions, considering the impact for customers, cost and risk

- Manages conflicts that may impact delivery

- Challenges upwards given knowledge of delivery and awareness of complex systems and the broader

picture

- Identifies and anticipates need for changes to continuously improve quality and efficiency of output

Knowledge & Skills:

- Experience in life cycle mapping, process mapping, data mining and knowledge of different requirements driven business needs, regulatory jurisdiction and proposition design.

- Strong problem-solving skills, with a demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity and apply critical thinking to complex issues.

- Proven experience leading and managing large-scale projects related to delivering improvements & building capabilities.

- Ability to influence and work effectively with stakeholders at all levels, aligning cross-functional teams to achieve transformation goals.

- Strategic thinker with strong analytical abilities, able to balance high-level objectives with practical project management.

- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present ideas and project updates to senior leadership.

- Passionate about developing a work environment that embraces and values diversity.

- Attention to detail and the ability to articulate complex ideas/concepts to stakeholders.

Experience:

- Minimum of 15+ years of management experience & 10+ specifically in leading transformation & change projects preferably in asset management industry (buy side) or capital markets. (Having private market experience is icing on the cake)

- Significant and demonstrable track record of end to end delivery of projects, including demonstrable experience of successfully turning around failing projects, building momentum, and buy-in to a new project

- Influential Leadership skills & traits with a proven track record to bring cross functional teams with no authority together & lead them to achieve a strategic objective

- Experience of leading business transformation projects, working with both internal and external stakeholders within business function.

- Experience of working in a highly controlled and regulated environment with commercial mindset

- Working effectively with stakeholders at different levels including executive, global leaders, CIOs &

Investment teams (C-Suite and Functional Leaders) and external parties.

- Management and coaching of Project Managers, Business Analysts, Teach Teams, SME (line and matrix)

Educational Qualification:

- Masters in Business or any other equivalent certifications

- PMP, Six Sigma, CI, Lean, Business Transformations, Agile certification is an added advantage.