Albany Beck
Programme Delivery Assurance Director
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About Albany Beck
Albany Beck is a specialist Financial Services Consultancy helping institutions deliver complex change and transformation while building the internal capability to sustain it. We combine subject matter expertise with innovative delivery models that help clients scale efficiently, while offering meaningful, long-term career opportunities to our people. At Albany Beck, you’ll be choosing to work with an organisation that’s passionate about your learning journey and committed to your professional and personal development.
Key Responsibilities
Programme Delivery Assurance & Governance
- Lead and coordinate assurance reviews across complex strategic transformation programmes and portfolios.
- Evaluate programme performance against governance frameworks, delivery methodologies, and agreed success criteria.
- Identify delivery risks, obstacles, performance gaps, and emerging issues before they impact programme outcomes.
- Conduct root cause analysis and support the creation of pragmatic recovery and improvement plans.
- Monitor programme health indicators, delivery metrics, dependencies, and control effectiveness.
- Provide independent challenge and assurance to programme leadership teams and governance forums.
Executive Stakeholder Engagement
- Build strong relationships with programme sponsors, executive stakeholders, delivery leads, and portfolio governance functions.
- Present assurance findings and recommendations to senior leadership teams and steering committees.
- Facilitate discussions that drive consensus, accountability, and delivery improvement.
- Act as a trusted advisor on delivery excellence, transformation governance, and organisational change.
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Continuous Improvement & Transformation Excellence
- Lead thematic reviews and enterprise-wide improvement initiatives focused on enhancing delivery capability.
- Identify opportunities to improve delivery frameworks, processes, governance controls, and reporting mechanisms.
- Support the adoption of data-driven decision making, automation, and emerging technologies that improve programme performance.
- Promote lessons learned, best practice adoption, and knowledge-sharing initiatives across transformation communities.
Risk, Audit & Compliance Alignment
- Partner with Risk and Internal Audit functions to establish consistent assurance approaches and standards.
- Support the assessment and management of transformation-related risks.
- Ensure assurance activities align with organisational governance, regulatory expectations, and enterprise risk frameworks.
- Contribute to audit readiness and evidence-based programme governance activities.
Key Skills & Experience
- Proven experience as a Programme Director, Transformation Director, Portfolio Director, or senior Programme Manager delivering complex strategic initiatives.
- Significant experience undertaking programme assurance, delivery reviews, or transformation governance activities within large organisations.
- Strong understanding of programme governance, portfolio management, risk management, and investment oversight.
- Experience leading large-scale technology, business, and data transformation programmes.
- Demonstrated ability to engage, influence, and challenge senior stakeholders and executive leadership teams.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate complex findings into practical recommendations.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management capabilities.
- Deep understanding of Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid delivery methodologies.
- Experience working within Financial Services or other highly regulated sectors.
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Desirable Experience
- Experience working alongside Risk, Audit, or Regulatory functions.
- Familiarity with programme and portfolio management tooling such as Jira, Clarity, Asana, or equivalent platforms.
- Knowledge of Product Management principles and operating models.
- Experience implementing delivery excellence or transformation improvement initiatives at enterprise scale.
- Relevant qualifications such as MSP, PgMP, PMP, PRINCE2, Agile certifications, or equivalent programme leadership credentials.
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