ICAEW
Senior Manager, Technology Governance, Change and Comms
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At The Institute of Chartered Accountants England & Wales (ICAEW), you'll be part of an organisation that's shaping the future of business, finance, and the accountancy profession on a global scale. Our bold Direction 2030 strategy puts members, innovation, sustainability, and trust at the heart of everything we do; creating an exciting, forward-looking environment where your work has real impact. We invest in our people through our benefits package, continuous development, and a supportive, inclusive culture that empowers you to grow and thrive. If you're looking for a role with purpose, influence, and opportunity, ICAEW is a place where your future can truly take shape.
We're looking for a Senior Manager, Tech Governance, Change & Comms
Join our team in Milton Keynes on a permanent basis. This role offers a salary of £70,000 - £85,000 per annum with a hybrid working pattern.
To lead ICAEW's technology governance, change management, and communications functions, ensuring that the tech portfolio is strategically aligned, transparently prioritised, well-governed, and successfully adopted across the organisation. This role manages the Tech Change Manager, providing direction, support, and strategic oversight to ensure consistent delivery, measurable outcomes, and effective engagement across all technology initiatives.
What you will be doing:
- Strategic leadership of tech governance and change functions: Manage, mentor, and align the work of the Tech Change Manager to ensure coordinated and effective support of portfolio delivery and adoption.
- Oversee governance and prioritisation processes: Provide executive oversight of the Portfolio Steering Group, ensuring prioritisation is fair, transparent, and aligned to organisational strategy. Ensure governance frameworks are robust, scalable, and consistently applied.
- Drive delivery discipline and standards: Champion the consistent use of technology delivery frameworks (e.g., business case development, benefit tracking, agile practices) across the portfolio, with oversight of governance enforcement and improvement.
- Oversee benefit tracking and realisation: Ensure appropriate mechanisms are in place to monitor and report on whether initiatives deliver intended strategic and financial outcomes. Support escalations where benefits are at risk.
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What you will need:
- Experience: Demonstrable experience in technology leadership roles across governance, PMO, or business change. Proven experience managing teams and overseeing large-scale digital portfolios or transformation programmes.
- Skills: Strong leadership and stakeholder engagement; strategic thinking and analytical capability; governance design and assurance; change and communications planning; benefit tracking and value measurement.
- Preferred Qualifications: Degree in Business, Technology, or equivalent. Professional certifications in MoP, PRINCE2, MSP, PROSCI, APMG Change Management, or similar highly desirable. Familiarity with enterprise tools (e.g., Jira, Power BI, ServiceNow) expected.
- Strategic and structured: Able to connect the dots between governance, change, and delivery strategy, bringing clarity to complex portfolios.
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What you can expect from us
We believe doing your best work starts with feeling supported both professionally and personally. That's why we offer a range of benefits designed to give you flexibility, security, and peace of mind:
- A generous 9% pension
- Healthcare cash plan
- Private Medical Insurance
- Life assurance at 4x your salary
- 24 days' holiday, and the option to buy or sell extra days
- Hybrid working
- Everyday savings through gym discounts, travel loans, and retail perks
- Enhanced family leave, including up to 6 months on full pay
- Ongoing wellbeing support, including access to CABA
- A paid day each year to volunteer for a cause that matters to you
It's all part of creating an environment where you can thrive, in work and beyond. For a full overview of our benefits package please see below.
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We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if we receive enough suitable applications. We therefore encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
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