PlayStation Global - Change Management Specialist, Finance Transformation (Contract)

Remote - United States$118k - $118k1mo ago

Remote Senior NA Management Consulting Head of Finance Accounts Payable Specialist Governance Reporting Training Development Team Leadership Program Management

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resources, Organizational Psychology, Communications, or a related field. • 7+ years of organizational change management experience (10+ years preferred). • Experience leading change management for large-scale, cross-functional transformation programs. • Proven success supporting Finance, ERP, or enterprise technology transformation initiatives. • Strong experience developing stakeholder engagement, communications, training, and adoption strategies. • Ability to influence senior leaders and executive sponsors without direct authority. • Experience measuring change effectiveness through KPIs, dashboards, and adoption metrics. • Excellent communication, facilitation, and relationship-building skills. • Prosci, CCMP, APMG, or similar Change Management certification required. • Experience supporting Finance transformation, ERP implementations, or operating model redesign. • SAP S/4HANA or other enterprise technology implementation experience. • Management consulting experience (Big Four or similar). • PMP certification and/or MBA. • At SIE, working with our partners, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.Please note that the individual base pay range may vary based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.In addition, this role is eligible for benefit offerings that include medical, dental, and vision. Click here to learn more. • This is a flexible role that can be remote, with varying pay ranges based on geographic location. For example, if you are based out of Seattle, the estimated base pay range for this role is listed below, this is an hourly rate. • $117,800—$176,800 USD • Please note, Sony Interactive Entertainment conducts background checks at the offer stage for all new employees (which may include criminal background checks for some roles) and will need to process personal information to support these checks. • Please refer to our Candidate Privacy Notice for more information about what personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and your data protection rights. • Equal Opportunity Statement:

Responsibilities

• Organizational Change Strategy & Planning • Design, implement, and continuously evolve the Organizational Change Management (OCM) strategy supporting the Finance Transformation portfolio. • Develop and maintain enterprise OCM frameworks, methodologies, governance models, and reusable toolkits that establish consistent change practices across initiatives. • Lead Change Impact Assessments to identify impacted stakeholder groups, business risks, organizational dependencies, and adoption requirements. • Establish governance for organizational readiness, change saturation, and adoption planning, providing insights and recommendations to transformation leadership. • Develop stakeholder engagement strategies tailored to global, regional, and functional audiences. • Executive Sponsorship & Stakeholder Engagement • Partner with executive sponsors across the C-suite, Finance Leadership Team (FLT), and Executive Leadership Team (ELT) to build active and visible sponsorship throughout the transformation lifecycle. • Coach senior leaders on effective change leadership and provide strategic guidance, messaging, and materials that reinforce adoption. • Develop Sponsor Coalition Maps that align executive sponsorship across workstreams and organizational levels. • Build trusted relationships across Finance, HR, IT, and business leaders to drive alignment, engagement, and accountability. • Communications & Change Delivery • Develop and execute integrated communication strategies that support Finance Transformation initiatives across global audiences. • Create executive communications, leadership briefings, town halls, intranet content, and other change materials that reinforce transformation objectives. • Design audience-specific communication plans based on stakeholder needs, organizational impact, geography, and business priorities. • Establish enterprise OCM standards, templates, and toolkits that enable consistent change delivery across the Finance Transformation portfolio. • Develop People Manager Enablement and Change Champion programs that equip leaders to effectively guide their teams through change. • Implement feedback mechanisms to measure stakeholder sentiment and continuously improve communication effectiveness. • Change Readiness, Adoption & Reporting • Define and implement enterprise change readiness assessments across Finance Transformation initiatives. • Develop executive dashboards, scorecards, and reporting that provide visibility into organizational readiness, adoption progress, key risks, and benefits realization. • Establish and monitor key Organizational Change Management metrics, including stakeholder engagement, adoption, training effectiveness, communications impact, and sponsor effectiveness. • Track adoption outcomes and provide data-driven recommendations that improve business performance and transformation success. • Conduct post-implementation reviews and incorporate lessons learned into future change management practices. • Resistance Management • Identify potential sources of organizational resistance and develop targeted strategies that improve stakeholder engagement and adoption. • Partner with business leaders to resolve adoption challenges and reinforce sustainable behavioral change across impacted teams. • Training & Capability Development • Serve as the Organizational Change Management subject matter expert for the Finance Transformation Office, providing guidance and coaching across transformation initiatives. • Conduct Training Needs Analyses and partner with HR and Learning & Development to develop learning pathways that prepare employees for new processes, systems, and ways of working. • Design manager enablement resources that strengthen leadership capability and support successful change adoption. • Measure training effectiveness and recommend improvements that accelerate user proficiency and long-term adoption. • Enterprise Change Capability • Build long-term organizational change capability by developing reusable playbooks, governance models, knowledge repositories, and best practices that can be leveraged across future transformation initiatives. • Promote continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance change management practices, tools, and organizational maturity. • Design recognition strategies that reinforce desired behaviors, celebrate transformation milestones, and support sustained adoption.

Benefits

• Sony Interactive Entertainment isn’t just the Best Place to Play — it’s also the Best Place to Work. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is the company behind the PlayStation brand. As a subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, we’re part of a proud legacy of innovation and excellence. SIE is a dynamic technology company, delivering cutting-edge hardware and network services to more than 100 million people and an entertainment leader, home to some of the most beloved and recognizable intellectual properties (IP) in the world. Our role at SIE is to create and nurture the experiences under the PlayStation brand, a name synonymous with entertainment excellence and creativity. • Change Management Specialist Finance Transformation • Remote, United States • This is a 6 month contract assignment • At Sony Interactive Entertainment, we're transforming the future of Finance. As part of our newly established Finance Transformation Office (FTO), we're looking for an experienced Change Management Specialist to lead organizational change efforts across a portfolio of global transformation initiatives. • Change Management Specialist • Reporting to the Director of Transformation Services, you'll develop and execute change management strategies that drive adoption of new systems, processes, and ways of working. You'll partner with Finance, IT, HR, and business leaders to ensure employees are equipped, engaged, and supported throughout the transformation journey. • This is an individual contributor role ideal for someone who enjoys influencing across organizations, building change frameworks from the ground up, and delivering measurable business outcomes.