Our clients are mid-market and enterprise organizations actively operationalizing AI-driven workflows across their finance, accounting, and operations functions. They need an experienced change management leader who can bridge the gap between technology implementation and organizational adoption. This interim consultant role is focused on driving the people side of AI transformation: ensuring employees understand, adopt, and sustain new AI-enabled processes and tools.
Responsibilities:
- Design and execute a comprehensive change management strategy aligned to the client's AI implementation roadmap
- Conduct stakeholder assessments and impact analyses across impacted business units and roles
- Develop communication plans that translate complex AI and automation changes into clear, audience-appropriate messaging
- Lead training design and delivery, including role-specific enablement for finance, accounting, and operations teams
- Build and coach a network of internal change champions to sustain adoption beyond the engagement
- Identify and proactively manage resistance, cultural barriers, and organizational readiness gaps
- Define and track change adoption KPIs and report progress to senior leadership and project sponsors
- Partner closely with IT, HR, and business unit leaders to align change timelines with deployment milestones
- Advise on organizational design adjustments needed to support new AI-enabled operating models
- 8+ years of change management experience with demonstrated delivery on large-scale technology or digital transformation programs
- Hands-on experience leading change for AI, automation, or ERP implementations within accounting, finance, or shared services environments
- Proficiency in structured change methodologies (Prosci/ADKAR, Kotter, McKinsey Influence Model, or equivalent)
- Strong executive presence with the ability to influence C-suite and board-level stakeholders
- Experience developing and facilitating role-based training and communications across multi-functional teams
- Proven track record measuring and reporting adoption outcomes tied to business impact
Skills Required
- 8+ years of change management experience
- Hands-on experience leading change for AI, automation, or ERP implementations
- Proficiency in structured change methodologies
- Strong executive presence with ability to influence C-suite
- Experience developing and facilitating role-based training
- Proven track record measuring adoption outcomes
What We Do
GHJ is an accounting and advisory firm that specializes in nonprofit, food and beverage, entertainment and media and health and wellness companies. Previous recipient of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Employee Champion For Life Work Harmony Award and named a “Best Places to Work” by the Los Angeles Business Journal eight times since 2008, GHJ is passionate about helping clients and its people #BeMore by focusing on building thriving businesses and creating a better future. GHJ works as a business advocate for its clients — providing personalized service and building long-term relationships to help position our clients for growth. Through its affiliation with HLB International, a global network of independent professional accounting firms and business advisers, GHJ is able to partner with other top firms across major cities throughout the U.S. and the world. GHJ’s audit, tax and advisory teams leverage the HLB network to better serve its clients and give clients access to member firms in over 158 countries across the globe and over 775 offices worldwide. Also ranked as a top-20 largest accounting firm on the Los Angeles Business Journal’s Book of Lists, GHJ has 15 partners and more than 160 staff members that serve over 3,000 clients. GHJ is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the AICPA Governmental Audit Quality Center (GAQC), the California Society of CPAs and the California Association of Nonprofits (CalNonprofit).
