Accountabilities

• IMO Set-up & Operation: Establish and run the Integration Management Office as the central control function for the integration programme, defining the standards, tools, templates, plan architecture and ways of working through which all workstreams operate. Maintain the integrated master plan and ensure milestones, dependencies and resources are aligned with strategic goals and delivered on time and within scope.
• Governance & Reporting: Own the governance rhythm and the flow of information to the integration steering committee and supporting forums. Prepare papers, track progress against milestones and synergy targets, maintain the programme dashboard and key performance metrics, and provide executive leadership with a clear, confident line of sight on status, risk and value.
• Risk, Issue & Dependency Management: Operate the programme-level RAID discipline, capturing and managing cross-functional risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies. Drive timely resolution, maintain escalation thresholds and ensure the right decisions reach the right forum at the right time.
• Workstream Orchestration: Coordinate Enabling Function and Service Line workstream leads and the acquired business teams, aligning objectives, sequencing interdependent activity and holding the programme to its commitments. Convene and service the design and decision-making forums, ensuring decisions are logged, distilled and actioned.
• Discovery & Target Operating Model: Orchestrate the discovery period and the definition of the target operating model, moving the programme from mobilisation into delivery at pace against a clear, agreed operating model, with fee-earner capacity actively protected throughout.
• Cost, Value & Benefits Tracking: Track the cost of integration and the realisation of synergy and value-creation benefits, maintaining the methodology and evidence base that demonstrate return against the investment case.
• Standardisation & Capability Building: Develop and continuously improve the integration framework, tools and templates so that each successive integration is faster, more consistent and more assured. Internalise capability from external advisers and build an enduring in-house IMO function that scales with deal volume.

Skills And Experience

• Proven experience establishing and running a programme or integration management office (PMO/IMO) across multiple concurrent workstreams in a complex, fast-moving environment.
• Strong command of programme planning, governance, RAID and reporting disciplines, with fluency in relevant toolsets (i.e. MS Project, Planner or other tools).
• Demonstrable experience coordinating cross-functional workstreams and senior stakeholders, sequencing interdependent activity to a plan.
• Excellent governance and executive-reporting skills, with the credibility to prepare and present to committee and board-level audiences.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail and the composure to manage significant complexity and ambiguity.
• Excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and hold others to account at all levels.
• Highly organised, self-motivated and outcome-focused, comfortable operating with autonomy and building structure where little exists.
• Previous experience in professional &/or financial services; previous accountancy sector experience would be beneficial.

Desired Experience

• Experience within an M&A environment integrating multiple businesses together.
• Relevant project/programme management certification (e.g. MSP, PMP, APM, Agile or ScrumMaster).
• Experience of standing up a PMO/IMO from scratch and transitioning capability from external advisers in-house.
• Experience working in a private equity-backed environment.

Core Benefits

At Affinia, our culture is driven by ambition and a commitment to positively impact all the communities we serve. We are dedicated to the success, development, and wellbeing of our colleagues, helping them achieve their goals and seize the opportunities that come with our growth. Alongside a flexible and inclusive work environment, we offer the following core benefits:

• 25 days holiday (FTE) plus Bank Holidays (Sept-Aug).
• Opportunity to purchase 3 extra days holiday per year.
• Auto enrolment Pension Scheme with True Potential.
• Death in Service.
• Professional membership support.
• Paycare – claim money back for Dental / Optical / Professional Therapies
• Dress for your Diary Policy.

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.

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