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

Office of the CIO (OCIO) Advisor Job Description - Principal

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.

Location: On-site in Calgary, Canada

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.

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• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Be able 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.
• Be able 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).

• 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