Change Management Specialist

Job Requisition ID #

26WD95303

Position Overview

As a Finance Change Management Specialist, you will report to the Finance Change Management Manager and play an important role in helping deliver change management and people readiness solutions. You will facilitate the successful planning, execution, and adoption of changes impacting the global Finance organization, and serve as the Finance Enablement Team's (FET) regional representative and primary point of contact for Autodesk employees in the APAC region. As a skilled relationship builder, you will ensure a One Autodesk approach by partnering closely with other members, project managers, leaders of all levels, and business subject matter experts to ensure impacted employees, stakeholders, and teams are engaged and prepared to adopt a variety of changes. Additionally, you will help manage the change management tool suite, help evolve change management reporting and analytics, and help organize change management skills building activities within Finance.

Responsibilities

• Develop change management plans for one or more projects simultaneously; help ensure timely delivery of change management deliverables.
• Develop presentations and materials (often in PowerPoint) ensuring alignment and integration with overall project plans and strategies.
• Assess and develop stakeholder engagement plans cross-functionally.
• Identify and maintain the stakeholder architecture to consistently assess change management scope, level of impact, and the support needed for each project and impacted team.
• Execute change impact collection process for each project and recommend improvements to the collection framework, tools, and approach.
• Support execution of change assessments and the sharing of results
• Plan, develop and execute end-user communications plans for assigned projects.
• Develop high level educational materials, training approach, and partner with instructional designers to execute training plans when needed.
• Identify risks, anticipate resistance, and develop mitigation plans
• Effectively communicate change concepts to a variety of audiences
• Support change management courses, certifications, and other skill building activities led by the Change Management Manager.
• Serve as the Finance Enablement Team's (FET) regional representative and primary point of contact for Autodesk employees in the APAC region.
• Develop positive and productive relationships with key stakeholders through meetings, Teams/Slack chats, focus groups, etc.

• Bachelor's degree in business, communications, human resources, organizational development, organizational psychology, or related field
• Experience and working knowledge of change management methods, processes, and tools
• 5-8 years professional business experience working in a cross-functional capacity, with demonstrated progression of increased responsibility; (examples, but not limited to roles in HR, internal or external consulting, project management, organization development/design, learning and development, talent management, business process design, or corporate communications)
• 3-5 years of experience supporting change management activities including stakeholder management, user readiness, training, and communications for one or more complex, global, transformational technology projects
• Strong writing, speaking and interpersonal skills
• Proven record of complex problem solving and decision making
• Experience developing project plans, project budgets, resource plans, and risk management plans
• Strong proficiency in MS Office Suite, including intermediate to advanced Excel, PowerPoint and familiarity with SharePoint
• Excellent organizational skills
• Collaborative team player with results focus
• Flexible approach and ability to quickly pivot as necessary to support urgent program needs
• Experience providing data analytics, analysis, and reporting
• Ability to quickly learn and willingness to use any required technology tools meant to support, streamline and track overall project and program change management effort
• Comfortable with ambiguity, changes in direction and priorities, in a fast-paced environment, large complex system implementation

• Experience in change management for a global ERP implementation, preferably SAP or S/4HANA
• Project management experience
• Experience or knowledge of change communication, training, and instructional design concepts
• Knowledgeable of process design methods
• Ability to build business acumen quickly
• General understanding of corporate finance a plus
• Change management certification a plus (Prosci/ADKAR, ACMP)

• Organized - Works and thinks in a methodical and orderly way
• Results-driven - Acts proactively to achieve results. Focuses on achieving results that promote business success
• Communication - Consistently and effectively communicates to stakeholders to keep the business informed and supportive of the project
• Influence - Engages, communicates, and influences effectively at all levels of the organization and across global teams using data and compelling narratives
• Handles Ambiguity - Deals confidently with unclear or changing situations
• Judgment - Investigates thoroughly to gather relevant information to make informed decisions
• Flexible - Ability to quickly pivot as necessary to support urgent program needs
• Resourceful - Finds alternative solutions to overcome problems and/or limitations
• Project Management - Ability to plan, time management, problem solving, task management, critical thinking