POSITION SUMMARY
The AVP, Business Change supports change initiatives in Finance & Treasury within the Corporate Domain. Working closely with Domain Leadership and the Business Transformation team, they deliver measurable change in line with the Operational Plan to achieve strategic objectives.
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:
- Stakeholder Management
- Build trusted relationship to gain additional insight.
- Collaborates on projects to assess processes and systems improvement needs.
- Lead communications and change management for their projects.
Domain Knowledge & Strategic Input:
- Utilise business and systems knowledge within an area of the domain, to facilitate effective stakeholder support for problem analysis and solution delivery
- May provide business specialist expertise in an area of the domain or large programs of work
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand the strategic goals and operational challenges
- Act as Business Design Lead / Product Owner to guide business design decisions.
- Defines goals for the initiative/area and prioritises the backlog to support. Identify and monitor KPIs and metrics to assess the health and performance of the initiative
People Leadership:
- Sets high standards and motivates others to achieve results without direct authority.
- Shares expertise to build organizational capabilities.
- Leverages team strengths effectively.
Organisational Skills:
- Owns project scoping, definition and mobilisation.
- Plans and executes change management with support from DDL
- Measures effectiveness of change by identifying, capturing and reviewing metrics
- Coordinates project planning, tracking and risk management.
- May manage vendor relationships to ensure success.
- Facilitating discovery workshops, planning sessions, roadmap development.
- Ensure sufficient resourcing for prioritised initiatives.
- Coordinate teams, including external consultants, to achieve goals.
Analysis, Business Solution Design & Delivery:
- Conducts analysis to support key decisions and clearly articulates the problem space for their area of the domain.
- Shapes solution with Domain Leadership support.
- Lead process mapping, analysis and issue root cause diagnosis for business processes.
- Balances functional and non-functional requirements.
- Ensures common understanding of problem space and proposed solution.
Innovation:
- Identifies valuable innovations by staying abreast of industry trends.
- Contributes to the improvement of business change practices.
- Individual contributor but may lead a team
Problem Solving:
- Shows initiative in addressing problems and making decisions.
- Understanding of tools and techniques for identifying and resolving organizational, operational, or process issues.
- Applies problem-solving skills to different situations with guidance.
Process Improvement:
- Familiar with strategic change and basic business transformation technical skills. Experience with operational improvement tools.
- Proficiency in qualitative and quantitative analysis and financial modelling.
EXPECTED COMPETENCIES:
- Degree in relevant discipline or at least 7+ years relevant work experience e.g. business change role
- Insurance / reinsurance experience essential
- Strong understanding of Finance & Treasury operations, including core functions such as accounts payable, reinsurance accounting, consolidation, FP&A, general ledger, cash and liquidity management, and financial reporting.
- Proven experience delivering change across Finance & Treasury systems and processes, including general ledger, financial planning tools, treasury management systems, and source-to-pay platforms - ensuring alignment with strategic goals and operational efficiency.
- Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented collaborative environment is essential.
- Strong communication, collaboration, coaching, problem solving and relationship building skills.
- Ability to manage change and to negotiate prioritisation of issues and projects.
- Excellent analytical skills and the ability to understand requirements, to use creative thinking to resolve problems and refine processes.
- Attention to detail, with exceptional oral and written communication skills.
- Comfortable speaking in front of groups and facilitating requirements and training workshops.
- Excellent people and management skills to interact with staff, colleagues, cross-functional teams and third parties.
Our people are our most valuable resource and core to our success. This is a fast-paced business environment, demanding a strong work ethic and a results-oriented approach. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, a comprehensive talent development program, and a reward system in which employees share in the success of the company. We are an engaged member of the communities in which we live and work and have a locally-led giving philosophy with generous employee matching program, global and local community grants and employee volunteerism.We seek diversity, create equity, and practice inclusion. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. We are an equal opportunity employer. We provide equal opportunity to all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, disability, military status or other legally protected categories.
Top Skills
What We Do
RenaissanceRe is one of the world’s leading reinsurance companies, consistently recognised for our innovation, technical excellence and creative problem-solving.
Our clients are multi-national organizations and government entities who turn to us to help manage the risks of operating in a volatile and uncertain world, including climate change, natural hazards like wildfires and hurricanes, cyber threats and significant societal upheaval.
We’re proud of our world-class reputation for exceptional performance and being a trusted partner, there for our clients when it matters most. Our corporate purpose is to protect communities and enable prosperity. When disaster strikes, the claims we pay help keep businesses open and communities rebuild.
Ensuring that our technology ecosystem can anticipate and respond to unprecedented global change in the world order is an imperative. It is only through continuously seeking to innovate through transformative technology that we can deliver our strategic business priorities, aims, and objectives.
RenaissanceRe’s name comes from our founders’ intention to create a renaissance in quantifying and managing risk. Our success depends on the unique way we combine information, experience and technology to empower our decisions. We have developed new and cutting-edge technologies since the day we started in 1993 and have long been recognized as pioneers and technical innovators; designing and engineering solutions to rapidly serve clients and help them dynamically manage their business
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