OD Capability Partner - Finance Transformation

Job Title:

OD Capability Partner – Finance Transformation (FTC – 18months+)

Location:

Bexhill or London (both hybrid – approx. one day a week in your preferred office location) Welcome to Hastings Direct

We’re a digital insurance provider with ambitious plans to become The Best and Biggest in the UK market. We’ve made huge investments in our data and tech capabilities over the past few years, along with nurturing our 4

Cs culture. We’re proud of the journey we’re on as a company and know that our continued success will rely on the contribution of our talented colleagues.

We provide insurance for over four million customers, but we know there’s even bigger opportunity out there. The fact you’re now reading this job advert means we’ve tempted you to find out more about #lifeat

HD – we really hope you like what you see, and you’ll join us to share in the success of the exciting chapter that lies ahead.

We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they feel they tick every box. If you’re excited about joining us and think you have some of what we’re looking for, even if you’re not 100% sure we would love to hear from you.

Our Finance and Business Services team are about to embark on a period of transformational technological change as part of a broader programme, which aims to deliver a “World Class” finance function by 2027. These technological solutions will drive the automation of manual tasks, which results in us having a greater capacity for deeper analytical and strategic capability.

We pride ourselves on our colleague centric culture (which we call the 4C’s), so it will be critical to consider how the finance organisation will develop, how the work performs today and what the future operating model will look like. The key to all this will be the colleague experience – considering the existing skills, required skills, upskilling, reskilling and the appropriate connection to our career frameworks.

• Providing consultancy across your area(s) of business to identify, propose and collaborate on strategies which drive organisational capabilities, including leadership, culture, capability, efficiency and productivity across Hastings Direct
• Developing strong relationships and credibility with stakeholders across HR, your business areas and external partners (at all levels) to ensure effective delivery of learning and capability outcomes
• Leading skills and capability programme development, implementation, on‑going delivery and engagement with stakeholders – managing business engagement, expectations and deliverables
• Evaluating how initiatives are landing – ensuring that the experience of colleagues impacted and progress against agreed outcomes are measures of success
• Embedding our 4
  
  Cs framework and transformational leadership principles across all solutions to help us embed the right culture and behaviours
• You’ll play a key role in providing a ‘bridge’ between the technical and human elements of the change process, showing a good understanding of the new systems, understanding how this technology will impact colleagues and the work they do today and helping to redesign the human processes accordingly

• Extensive experience and background as a learning/organisational development practitioner in a fast paced environment
• Strong planning and programmatic skills with significant experience driving Technology and human transformation end to end
• Outstanding consultancy skills with the ability to influence long term decisions by simplifying complex issues and providing clarity that will drive the best outcomes
• Significant stakeholder management skills – able to build trusted relationships by presenting and engaging with colleagues at all levels, across multiple departments
• Strong commercial and analytical thinking – can showcase how they’ve used business insight and data to help shape decisions and measure impact
• Change leadership in a digital/technological background

• Recruiter screening call
• 1st stage interview with hiring leader
• 2nd interview with hiring leaders leader

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