Job Description
Senior Change Manager - Finance & Operations Transformation
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We're partnering exclusively as an agency with a leading professional services firm to appoint a Senior Change Manager to lead the people side of a major Finance & Operations transformation. This is a 12-month fixed-term contract, hybrid working (up to 3 days in office), based in Sydney or Melbourne.
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This role is built for a practitioner who brings that instinct to everything they do. You'll own the end-to-end change strategy and delivery across a multi-stream roadmap, ensuring change is designed around impacted people, executable alongside business-as-usual, and measured by genuine adoption outcomes.
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You'll partner closely with senior leaders and teams to align vision with action, ensuring new tools and ways of working are adopted with confidence and clarity.
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What you'll do
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Own the change strategy and translate it into sequenced, realistic plans that the function can execute alongside BAU, focused on impacted people and adoption outcomes.
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Lead change activity across all streams: target operating model and agentification,
governance/risk/controls,
reporting & insights, and ways of working, from stakeholder engagement through to adoption.
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Assess who is impacted and how this differs by group; shape the approach around those differences; test readiness before each launch; and stay close through go-live until new processes are stable.
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Own the communication plan and produce clear, effective communications aligned to corporate affairs standards, firmwide policy changes, function-level updates, and leader briefings.
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Design and deliver training that builds genuine capability, including AI and agent fluency for finance practitioners; equip people leaders and AI Champions to lead change in their own teams.
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Drive adoption of new systems, dashboards, automated processes and agents; retire legacy reports, manual workarounds and outdated guidance as new ways of working land.
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Listen through pulse checks and team sessions; surface resistance early and work through it; then define, measure and report the metrics that prove adoption is real, and act on what they show.
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Identify adoption risks, issues and dependencies early; elevate where needed; and own mitigations, including where this program intersects with the firm's AI prioritisation and other enterprise initiatives.
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Sequence change activity across the roadmap so impacted teams can absorb it; flag where initiatives collide; report readiness and adoption performance into
governance/steering
committees; and hand initiatives to BAU with clear ownership and support.
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Prepare sponsors and senior leaders to make decisions and speak credibly to their teams; build trusted relationships with function leaders, initiative owners and teams through consistent delivery.
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What you'll bring
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Extensive experience in change management across strategy,



design and delivery phases.
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Proven track record delivering complex change initiatives and driving adoption at scale, ideally within finance, operations or other corporate functions.
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Demonstrated ability to engage and influence senior executives, building trusted relationships that hold through difficult conversations.
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Solid experience designing and delivering capability uplift programs for teams.
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Comfort running change across a portfolio of many concurrent initiatives at different stages of maturity, prioritising where change effort will matter most.
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Credibility with senior leaders, grounded in clear communication, sound judgement and consistent delivery.
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Pragmatic problem-solving and the ability to navigate organisational complexity without getting stuck.
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Accountability for adoption, delivery and measurable business impact.
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Excellent communication skills—able to simplify complexity and bring people with you.
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A genuinely people-centred approach, with a focus on employee experience and engagement throughout change.
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Desirable skills
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Comfort working across diverse operating models and change contexts.
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Curiosity about how AI and emerging technology are reshaping change practice, with the ability to apply global thinking to local execution.
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Package & location
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12-month fixed-term contract
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Hybrid working (up to 3 days in office)
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Sydney or Melbourne (location preference considered for the right candidate)
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Competitive package to $200k $210k (depending on experience)
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📌 Senior Change Manager - Finance & Operations Transformation (Victoria)
🏢 Bluefin Resources Pty
📍 Victoria