Job Description

ROLE: Change Manager REPORTS TO: Vice President, Finance, Real Estate and Financial Systems Sponsor LOCATION: Remote / Corporate Office, Richmond Hill (Hybrid)
COMPANY OVERVIEW Venterra Realty is a well-capitalized, privately held investment and technology company with $5.0+ billion in managed assets and $375+ million in revenues. It owns and operates over 75 multi-unit residential properties in the highest growth cities in the United States.

We are honoured to have received numerous workplace recognitions including Fortune Top 100 Best Medium Workplaces for the past six years in a row and having been named a four-time Glassdoor Best Places to Work winner! Read about all of our awards and accolades here!

We are looking for people who:

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  Have strong personal values and want to work for a values-based company
• Are ambitious and hard working with exceptionally high personal standards
• Embrace problem-solving and learning new skills
• Thrive in a rapidly changing and high growth environment
• Are passionate about driving continuous improvements and the use of technology with data to drive business results

THE OPPORTUNITY As the Change Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring that changes are planned, implemented, and managed effectively to minimize disruption and achieve the desired outcomes in connection with the usage of new technology and processes throughout the organization. We are launching this new function at Venterra to focus on the people side of change, to enable us to take on the velocity and pace of change required in todays environment.

This hands-on leadership role will work closely with the senior leadership team and departments across the organization, including Accounting Operations, Corporate Finance, Project Management, Human Resources, Technology and Data Management, Property Operations and Asset Management. The Change Manager will help senior leaders to fulfil the critical role of change sponsors, support people managers to help their team through the transitions, and support project managers to integrate change management activities in their project plans.

The first major change initiative for this role will be Venterras upcoming Financial Systems Transformation, which involves the adoption of Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP (the Oracle Project) for our finance and accounting operations and the adoption of various related business process improvements. Examples of these business processes improvements include month end optimization related to Income Statements and Balance Sheet reconciliations, Account Payable optimization related to contract management and approval processes, etc.

Other change initiatives for this role include the adoption of other technologies such as Coupa or our in-house applications, adoption of other business process improvements such as Human Resource Administration optimization, and building a company-wide change management function.

KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build out change management function across the organization, planning the enterprise methodology to move the company from current to future state, launching the change management practice, and measuring and improving the change initiatives.
• Create a 12 to 18-month plan to show the maturation of the change management function.
• Lead Change Management activities including the planning and delivery of change activities across all phases of the Oracle Project and other projects.
• Partner closely with both the internal Senior Project Manager and the external System Implementation Consultant to collaborate with stakeholders to produce change management deliverables and documentation such as the stakeholder analysis, communication plan, change champion network strategy, end user training strategy, go-live support strategy, resistance management plan, etc.
• Introduce change management insights via data and metrics to help the Senior Leadership Team and Project Sponsor to optimize decision making and understand how well the organization is tracking towards achieving adoption goals.
• Manage and mitigate any risks associated with the change, including identifying potential risks and developing contingency plans.
• Support communications efforts with internal and external stakeholders including the design, delivery, and management of key communications.
• Lead training efforts including the design, delivery, and management of training programs.

CANDIDATE PROFILE

• Undergraduate degree in Business, HR, Organizational Development or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience managing large-scale organizational change efforts as a Change Manager or equivalent, preferably for finance transformations or technology transformations.
• Knowledgeable of change management principles, methodologies, and tools.
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Demonstrated ability to positively influence outcomes at all organizational levels.
• Change management certification or designation preferred.

Venterra Realty is an equal opportunity employer. Accessibility accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all stages of the selection process.