Change Management jobs in United States

Oversee and manage the Finance transformation roadmap, ensuring initiatives are prioritised, governed, and delivered to realise benefits. Shape and embed the Finance Operating Model, oversee adoption strategies, manage risks, and build capability across the team, acting as a key partner to senior leadership and ExCo on Finance change matters.

Please note, this is a 12 month Fixed term Contract.

• Transformation Roadmap: Own and manage the full Finance transformation roadmap, ensuring governance, prioritisation, and benefit realisation.
• Operating Model Adoption: Shape, document, and maintain the Finance Operating Model, ensuring alignment across processes, data, systems, and technology.
• Programme Delivery: Provide end-to-end leadership of all Finance change projects, ensuring successful delivery to time, budget, and quality.
• Frameworks & Reporting: Define frameworks, KPIs, and reporting standards across the portfolio and ensure executive-level reporting.
• Adoption & Change Management: Lead adoption strategies across Finance, ensuring sustainable embedding of new ways of working. Oversee Finance communications across all transformation initiatives, ensuring clarity, alignment, and executive-level updates.
• Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strategic relationships with C-, N1 and N2 level senior leaders, IT, and BAU Finance to secure alignment and commitment.
• Risk & Dependency Management: Oversee risk management across the Finance transformation portfolio, ensuring mitigation and resolution. Escalate where necessary.
• Capability Development: Lead capability development across the Finance change function, mentoring Senior Analysts, Analysts, and Juniors.
• Process Design & Testing: Oversee Finance process design, testing, and deployment across the transformation portfolio, ensuring consistency, best practice adoption, and alignment with the Finance Operating Model.

Professional Experience:

• Significant experience in finance transformation, change management, or consulting.
• Proven track record in portfolio governance and strategy execution.
• Deep knowledge of Target Operating Model design and implementation.
• Experience leading large-scale change programmes.
• Skilled in stakeholder management at CFO/Board level.
• Experience in risk and dependency management across complex portfolios.

Skills and Competencies:

• Excellent communication & executive stakeholder influence.
• Advanced governance, portfolio & programme management skills.
• Strong understanding of finance processes & systems (SAP S/4HANA preferred).
• Risk management & control mindset.
• People leadership and coaching.
• High resilience & ability to manage ambiguity, data‑driven decision‑making.

Securing Energy for Europe – it’s a simple statement, with a bold ambition. SEFE is not just our name, but also encompasses everything that drives us. To accomplish this, we’re taking immediate action to secure gas supply – but also looking forward, to explore our role in the European energy transformation and how we can contribute to a stable and sustainable future.

SEFE, an international energy company, ensures the security of supply and drives the decarbonisation of its customers. SEFE’s activities span the energy value chain, from origination and trading to sales, transport, and storage. Through its decades‑long expertise in trading and the development of its LNG business, SEFE has become one of the most important suppliers to industrial customers in Europe, with an annual sales volume of 200 TWh of gas and power. Its 50,000 customers range from small businesses to municipalities and multinational organisations. By investing in clean energies and especially in the hydrogen ecosystem, SEFE is contributing to the energy transition. The company employs around 2,000 people globally and is owned by the Federal Government of Germany.

Our international teams work across locations in Europe, Asia, and North America. We’re passionate about energy and the important role it can play in shaping a better future.

Securing energy – now and for the future.

We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment that embraces diversity and fosters the development of knowledge, skills, and experience. Whatever your role, you’ll find an open, welcoming atmosphere that empowers you, and recognises your contribution.

In return we offer a competitive starting salary supported by a comprehensive range of financial, lifestyle and wellness benefits with the flexibility to follow a hybrid working model.

• Bonus earning potential
• Non‑contributory pension with 10% employer contribution
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and volunteering days
• Buy / sell holidays
• Life assurance
• Medical and dental insurance (family cover)
• Range of optional flexible benefits

We are committed to supporting your career growth with opportunities to develop both your knowledge and experience through a blended approach to learning.

Join SEFE and help us secure energy supply across Europe and shape a better, more sustainable tomorrow.