Business Change Lead - Financial Services | Inside IR35 Contract

Project overview

Business Change Lead - Financial Services | Inside IR35 Contract

We're looking for an experienced Business Change Lead to join a major financial services organisation on a large-scale transformation programme. This is a hands-on role focused on the people and organisational impact of change, rather than project or programme management.

Responsibilities

Key Skills:

• Lead business change strategies across complex transformation programmes
• Assess the impact of change across people, processes and technology
• Drive stakeholder engagement, communications and training
• Lead business readiness, go-live planning and transition into BAU
• Identify and mitigate change risks, managing resistance and securing stakeholder buy-in
• Support team development and contribute to business change best practice
• Strong experience leading business change and organisational transformation
• Experience within financial services regulation, ideally with a regulator or regulatory change programme
• Proven ability to lead change workstreams and influence senior stakeholders
• Experience across business readiness, adoption, communications and training
• Understanding of technology-enabled change across complex organisations
• Experience working across Agile and Waterfall environments

Project details

London, minimum 50% in office

Initial 14-15 months, with potential extension

Mid-November 2026

IR35: Inside IR35

This is specifically a Business Change Lead opportunity, not a Project or Programme Manager role. Candidates must have hands-on experience leading the people side of organisational change.

• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 6 months (extensions)
• Location: London, United Kingdom, GB
• Rate: 88-88 EUR/h