About Us
Ascent has recently been acquired by Acuity Analytics . This is both a significant milestone for us and a tremendous opportunity for you.
Acuity Analytics is a business with a strong global reputation, an impressive client base, and ambitious growth plans. We deliver deep insights and domain-led digital transformation to high-growth and heavily regulated organisations. To our customers, we bring a partnership that provides the talent, technology, and capability to enhance performance and operational efficiency.
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Transformation Lead to drive operational transformation across a financial or professional services organisation.
The successful candidate will have experience delivering cross-functional change across core functions including HR, Finance, Delivery, Commercial, Operations and Technology. They will understand operational interdependencies, assess improvement opportunities and work directly with leaders to implement practical, sustainable change.
This is a hands-on delivery role rather than a governance or PMO position. The role requires someone who can identify issues, evaluate options, manage dependencies and personally drive implementation to achieve measurable business outcomes.
Experience within a private equity-backed portfolio company, value creation environment or operational transformation function is highly desirable.
Key Responsibilities
Operational Transformation Lead operational improvement initiatives across multiple business functions.
Assess operational challenges, identify opportunities and develop practical solutions.
Understand end-to-end processes and manage impacts across functions.
Support process improvement, organisational effectiveness and operating model changes.
Drive measurable improvements in operational performance, efficiency and scalability.
Partner with functional leaders to embed sustainable change.
Transformation Delivery and Execution Translate business priorities into actionable transformation initiatives.
Lead delivery from problem definition through implementation.
Evaluate options, assess impacts and support decision making.
Manage cross-functional dependencies, risks and delivery challenges.
Coordinate activity across multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
Remove obstacles and maintain momentum to ensure successful outcomes.
Track benefits and intervene where delivery or outcomes are at risk.
Commercial and Value Creation Develop business cases and value realisation plans.
Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, productivity and performance.
Analyse operational and financial data to support decision making.
Quantify benefits and monitor delivery of outcomes.
Ensure recommendations are commercially viable and operationally practical.
Stakeholder Leadership and Engagement Build trusted relationships with executives, operational leaders and SMEs.
Facilitate workshops, problem-solving sessions and decision-making forums.
Drive alignment across functions and competing priorities.
Present recommendations, progress and outcomes to senior stakeholders.
Produce high-quality PowerPoint materials for executive audiences.
Influence through credibility, collaboration and practical expertise.
Experience and Background
Essential Significant experience leading operational transformation, operational excellence or business improvement programmes.
Strong understanding of HR, Finance, Delivery, Commercial Operations and Technology functions.
Experience working directly with operational leaders to define problems, assess options and implement change.
Proven ability to manage complex cross-functional dependencies and operational impacts.
Experience delivering large-scale change across multiple business functions.
Strong commercial and financial acumen, including business cases and benefits realisation.
Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret operational and financial performance data.
Advanced PowerPoint and strong Excel…