Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive.At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.How you'll make an impactThe PX Transformation and Enablement group exists to ensure delivery of key PX transformation priorities which will include strategic, cross-functional programs of work that address systemic review and delivery of uplift across the PX value chain including process, systems, insights and employee experience for Xeros. It is more critical than ever that our PX teams are able to deliver our strategy and that our functional resources are clearly aligned to enable these teams.Working closely with the PX Transformation Manager and wider Transformation & enablement team, you will support executing and delivering to our PX strategy, OKRs and transformation roadmap. Ensuring we develop and embed the frameworks needed to help us scale effectively and embed excellence in all that we design, build and deliver.Our PX Transformation is focused on reimagining the way we deliver a world-class employee experience to employees and people leaders across Xero, in a scalable and consistent way. Fundamental to this are our PX systems which we need to consolidate and optimise to deliver a seamless and integrated experience to end users.You will make an impact by bringing structure to critical PX work, leading the delivery of multiple workstreams, and playing a key role in ensuring we meet our objectives around scaling PX for growth and embedding new ways of working.What you'll do
- Generate insights to recommend and advise on how best to improve our systems and processes to deliver our PX Transformation and a world class employee experience
- Work with the PX centres of excellence to identify opportunities to improve our systems and experiences
- Play a critical role in forming and executing the PX strategy and transformation roadmap
- Identify, scope and implement short and long term opportunities to support and embed the future PX service delivery model
- Work closely with the Business Operations & Strategy Projects team and be a conduit for PX initiatives
- Bring your natural curiosity, detailed approach and customer-oriented thinking to all you do, proactively delivering insights to inform decisions
- Deliver planning workshops and discovery sessions to support the progress towards change and transformation
- Help define, evaluate and solve PX opportunities, collaborating with a range of stakeholders across PX and Xero
- Contribute to refining, sizing and estimating the 'work to be done'
- Maintain a strong understanding of the transformation roadmap and how it aligns to Xero's and PX's strategic vision, direction and priorities
- Work with T,T&E leaders to prioritise the backlog, agree delivery roadmaps and maintain delivery schedules
- Proactively support with continuous improvement, standardisation activities and team initiatives to improve performance, quality and effectiveness
- You'll both lead and support multiple projects at once, and ensure distinct pieces of work are connected to our overall strategy and vision
- You'll own and deliver process and continuous improvement
- Our team is able to make decisions at pace thanks to the processes you have contributed to
- You'll work with PX and the business to understand problems and how to best prioritise initiatives
- You'll have harmonious working relationships with all employees, people leaders and business stakeholders
- You'll support the adoption of self service by PX, people leaders and Employees
- The PX team look to involve you in the early stages of new initiatives as a result of your expertise and ability to see the linkages with existing items of work
- Cohesive analysis and process improvements are seen as best practice
- Contributing to world class execution of PX transformation
- Be seen as a leader contributing to and participating in company values, culture and wider team.
- Great stakeholder feedback
- 5+ years experience in a business analyst, project management, and/or consulting role - added bonus if experience within an HR/people environment
- Proven experience in designing and delivering on strategy
- Proven experience in supporting the awareness, education, engagement and optimisation of change
- Demonstrated experience rolling out change to a variety of key user groups, ensuring efficiency for end users
- A passion for creating human-centered experiences that delight end users and that solve business problems
- Proven experience in designing and delivering on strategy
- Good practical process management skills including understanding of process design, documentation and continuous improvement disciplines
- Experience designing and facilitating workshops
- Strong commercial acumen with a data-driven mindset
- An ability to think strategically, and translate strategic direction into actionable programmes of work
- An ability to leverage data and metrics to ensure effective design, implementation and measurement
- Tech savvy and is both comfortable and motivated to help users make the most of available systems
- A natural problem solver, with an ability to come up with innovative solutions to complex problems
- Able to exercise effective judgement, sensitivity, creativity to changing needs and situations.
- Ability to work autonomously, as well as part of a team, and prioritise competing demands
- Excellent interpersonal skills and relationship building, including the ability to communicate with people at all levels, both in writing and in person
- You'll be self-motivated and accustomed to juggling a changing workload
- Confidence to lead and be accountable for project and its deliverables
- Strong attention to detail and focus on continuous improvementInclusive and collaborative team player, open to feedback and different ideas