CrossCountry Consulting is hiring a
Associate Director - Business Transformation, Remote - South Africa

Summary

The job is for a Business Transformation team member at CrossCountry Consulting who will analyze and enhance clients' businesses, lead their data journey, drive data culture and adoption programs, and support internal projects. The role requires 9+ years of relevant experience, strong strategic planning skills, up-to-date knowledge of industry trends in data strategy and governance, and proficiency in various tools such as Collibra, OvalEdge, Atlan, Talend, SAP Master, BigID, OneTrust, Tableau, PowerBI, Alteryx, and Snowflake.

Requirements

• 9+ years of relevant experience and track recording delivering transformation programs into CDO, CTO, COO, CFO, and/or CRO organizations
• Strong strategic planning skills with past experience working with C-Suites executives to build out Organizational Level Strategic Roadmaps
• Up-to-date on latest industry trends in industry trends and best practices in data strategy and governance
• Knowledge of industries, including investment banking, broker-dealers, custody, fund administration and investment management
• Proven leadership roles with strong communication and presentation skills
• Professionalism and discretion in interacting with executives and clients
• Proficiency in one or more of the following: Collibra, OvalEdge, Atlan, Talend, SAP Master, BigID, OneTrust
• Experience in tools such as Tableau, PowerBI, Alteryx, Snowflake
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, Data Analytics, or similar discipline
• Willingness to travel based on client preferences

Responsibilities

• Working with high-performing teams to analyze, evaluate and enhance our clients businesses, including processes, governance, data and technologies
• Lead our clients and teams on their data journey which includes collaborating on their strategic vision for data, crafting a pragmatic roadmap of initiatives, and aiding our clients in the implementation of these initiatives, aligned to business objectives
• Ability to drive data governance framework design and facilitate policies and procedures development in line to meet the strategic and regulatory objectives of our clients related to data governance, data management, data quality, data risk management, and data privacy and security
• Collaborate seamlessly with key senior stakeholders, including business, IT teams and data owners to identify data needs
• Conduct interviews with clients to perform current state/future state gap analysis and identify the root causes of client’s challenges
• Drive data culture and data adoption programs for clients who struggle with firmwide understanding of data ROI
• Establish KPIs related to data quality and data risk, controls, and remediation plans
• Develop roadmaps to developing data assets and data commercialization
• Support CrossCountry leadership team on internal projects, including but not limited to the following: sales/marketing initiatives, recruiting, and organizational development