Senior Advisor - Strategy and Planning

TransUnion is a major credit reference agency, offering specialist services in fraud, identity and risk management, automated decisioning and demographics. We support organisations across various sectors including finance, retail, telecommunications, utilities, gaming, government and insurance.

We’re looking for a Senior Advisor - Strategy and Planning to join our growing team. Responsible for defining strategy for implementing/operating technical centres of IT excellence throughout major segments/functions in GT. Direct all activities, tactical and operational for critical technical business operations. Aligns and calibrates the organization’s technology deployment strategy with its business strategy.

Day to Day You’ll Be:

• Partners internally with senior management or externally with industry leaders or specialists.
• Provides consultation on niche areas of the business that require in-depth analysis on multi-faceted dimensions.
• Creates, designs, or develops new ideas, products, services, or processes that shape future business plans in a specialised area of expertise.
• Consults with organisation leaders on new developments.
• Recognised as an advanced individual contributor within the organisation both within and beyond own function.
• Works without supervision with complete latitude for independent judgment.
• May mentor less experienced peers and display leadership as needed.
• Creates and designs new applications, services, products, or processes for the future state of the organisation.
• Sets objectives and executes results that have a significant impact within the context of a wider operational area.
• Communication involves providing thought leadership and innovation that influences change and advancement of the industry and/or profession.
• Internal contacts are typically senior management, international leaders, and frequently the CEO and Executive Level staff.
• External contacts are typically senior management of TransUnion clients, customers, vendors, government agencies, or media relations.
• Leads large projects/initiatives that impact the business on a domestic or international scale.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Sophisticated expertise and in-depth understanding of business and functional underlying concepts and principles.
• Ability to integrate highly sophisticated understanding of concepts, theories, and principles with deep knowledge of technical and organisational procedures to approach complex problems.
• Anticipates internal and/or external business challenges and/or regulatory issues.
• Operates with no supervision in a complex environment.
• Program and Project Planning - ideally cloud transformation projects and programs - 5-8 Years.
• Status and progress reporting & Key Performance Metrics - 5-8 Years.
• Legal & Compliance analysis as it relates to IT projects - 3-4 Years.
• Financial analysis and IT service negotiations - 5-7 Years.
• International project experience a plus, especially in India, HK, South Africa, UK, Latin America and Canada - 3-5 years.
• Background in software development, infrastructure, software testing and/or software architecture - 5-7 years preferred.
• Experience with GCP (Google Cloud) or AWS cloud migrations or technologies highly desired.
• Bachelor's degree - MIS, Business, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, Finance, or Natural Science (Chemistry, Biology, etc.) required.
• Master's degree - MBA, MIS, Computer Science, Software Engineering preferred.

Impact You’ll Make:

At TransUnion you will be joining a friendly, forward-thinking global business. As well as an excellent salary and bonus scheme or commission scheme (if joining our sales teams), our benefits package comes with:

• 26 days’ annual leave + bank holidays (increasing with service)
• Global paid wellness days off + a bonus day off to celebrate your birthday
• A generous contributory pension scheme + access to the TransUnion Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Private health care + a variety of physical, mental and financial fitness wellbeing programmes such as access to mindfulness tools
• Access to our diversity forums and communities so you can get involved in causes close to your heart

If there’s something on the list of essential / desirable skills that you can’t quite tick off, don’t let that put you off applying. We are open to exploring training and development opportunities for the right candidate to ensure you are successful. We know imposter syndrome is real, let's confront it so we can continue to grow and thrive together.

Flexibility at TU:

We recognise that our people need the freedom to balance their day-to-day lives with their work. This is why we’ve set out to create inclusive and flexible policies and practices for you to accommodate all your responsibilities and needs: children, family and beyond. If the role is advertised as full time, don’t let this stop you from applying. Let us know if you’re looking for a part-time or flexible working arrangement and we can discuss this with you.

Additional support:

At TransUnion, we’re committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace where all individuals’ talents and perspectives are valued. When you apply for a position with us, you’re not just joining a team, you’re becoming part of a community that celebrates differences and embraces equality. We understand that everyone has different needs, which is why we offer a range of reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to help you through the application process or to attend an interview with us by contacting ukrecruitment@transunion.com.

Interview & Hiring Process:

Most of our recruitment processes are virtual, so you’ll get to know our hiring managers and teams over the phone and through video. If we need you to attend a physical in-person interview your recruiter will inform you of this. We do not accept any unsolicited CVs from recruitment agencies. If you are a recruitment agency on our PSL our talent team will contact you directly should we require any assistance.

This is a hybrid position and involves regular performance of job responsibilities virtually as well as in-person at an assigned TU office location for a minimum of two days a week.