Principal - Office of the CIO (OCIO) Advisor - Business Consulting

Principal - Office of the CIO (OCIO) Advisor - Business Consulting

Principal - Office of the CIO (OCIO) Advisor - Business Consulting

Company: ITL Canada

Requisition ID: 124053BR

Location: On-site in Calgary, Canada

Job Description:

The OCIO Advisor will be responsible for leading, advising, and supporting a wide range of strategic initiatives related to the Office of the CIO. This individual will have a deep understanding of OCIO processes, financial planning, budgeting, and business case validation. With experience across multiple clients and organizations, the ideal candidate will serve as a trusted advisor, providing insights and guidance to ensure the effective management and performance of OCIO functions.

Key Responsibilities:







- Lead and support capital and operating planning processes for the OCIO, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and objectives.
- Develop, review, and manage the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), ensuring accurate and timely submission and approval by senior stakeholders.
- Perform scenario analysis on budgets, identifying key risks, opportunities, and impacts.
- Validate business case benefits and ensure they align with strategic objectives.
- Provide insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders on budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting related to OCIO activities.
- Facilitate and lead monthly financial reporting processes, ensuring accurate and timely delivery of financial data.
- Gather and document requirements for key reporting tools such as the Business Performance (BP) dashboard.
- Lead business process re-engineering efforts within the OCIO to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure seamless delivery of OCIO initiatives.

Evolve Culture:







- Champion a culture of shared ownership and constant organizational evolution.
- Elevate the importance of coordinated efforts to turn ideas into reality.
- Create leaders in everyone around you, e.g., leadership-as-a-practice.
- Enable organization leaders to drive ideas into organizational value.

Build Partnerships:

- Own the strategic relationship between Business and IT.
- Build cross-functional relationships for the convergence of value.
- Establish a communication methodology for effective and efficient organizational communication pertaining to OCIO activities.
- Partner with individuals, teams, and organizations to drive value and meaningful results.

Drive Value:







- Communicate proactively and constantly with all stakeholders involved in OCIO activities for visibility.
- Innovate using knowledge and awareness of industry trends to identify new opportunities for improvement.
- Facilitate timely progress of OCIO activities to enable value realization as early as possible.
- Collaborate with leaders across the organization and share ownership of maturing OCIO activities.

Satisfy Purpose:

- Advocate as a facilitator of change for the organization’s strategic plans.
- Facilitate value realization process by connecting stakeholders to communicating a shared purpose specifically shared values, beliefs, and behaviors.
- Understand needs and requirements of each stakeholder involved in OCIO activities and facilitate delivery of relevant artifacts & data points.






- Encourage stakeholders to understand the impact of adhering to the OCIO activities to enable data-driven decision making to improve the business.
- Strategize with leaders to improve OCIO activities.

Basic Qualifications:

- Senior-level experience (7+ years) with a proven track record in OCIO activities, including financial planning, budget management, and scenario analysis.
- Strong understanding of capital and operating planning processes.
- Experience with Annual Operating Plan development, budget submissions, and review processes with senior stakeholders.
- Solid knowledge of monthly financial reporting, forecasting, and analysis within the OCIO function.
- Experience gathering reporting requirements and working with reporting tools (e.g., BP dashboard).






- Familiarity with business process re-engineering in OCIO or similar functions.
- Ability to guide and advise senior leaders, drawing from experience with multiple clients or organizations.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Candidates authorized to work for any employer in Canada without employer-based visa sponsorship are welcome to apply. Infosys is unable to provide immigration sponsorship for this role at this time.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Ability to fluctuate between the four mindsets of an explorer, investor, cultivator, and connector.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong communication skills in writing, speaking, and presenting.
- Ability to listen, build rapport, and develop credibility as a strategic partner.






- Exude energy, focus, assertiveness, and diplomacy.
- Expert in relationship building and team collaboration.
- Know when to push an agenda and when to let a situation quietly develop, rest, or advance.
- Skilled and experienced at conflict negotiation and problem-solving.
- Capable of setting expectations with partners and achieving alignment and agreement.
- Ability to break down silos both inside and outside an organization to foster necessary collaboration.
- Ability to share ownership and drive results.
- Strong humility, listening, creativity, and negotiation skills.
- Ability to focus on purpose, value, and results, rather than solutions.
- Ability to facilitate connection of strategy to execution.






- Ability to identify gaps and areas that require improvements.
- Strategic thinker.
- Innate ability to identify the root cause of issues or problems.
- Ability to creatively deliver something of value, rather than focus simply on internal products (outside-in focus).

This job description may not cover or contain a comprehensive listing of all activities, duties and responsibilities that are required of the employee.

Benefits:

- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
- Long-term/Short-term Disability
- Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts
- Insurance (Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, Legal)
- 401(k) plan and contributions dependent on salary level
- Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

About Us:





Infosys is a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting. We enable clients in more than 50 countries to navigate their digital transformation. With over four decades of experience in managing the systems and workings of global enterprises, we expertly steer our clients through their digital journey. We do it by enabling the enterprise with an AI-powered core that helps prioritize the execution of change. We also empower the business with agile digital at scale to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and customer delight. Our always-on learning agenda drives their continuous improvement through building and transferring digital skills, expertise, and ideas from our innovation ecosystem.

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▶️ Principal - Office of the CIO (OCIO) Advisor - Business Consulting
🖊️ Infosys
📍 Calgary