We currently have an opportunity for an ITAM Consultant to join one of our financial services clients, in a critical role.
The role is to lead the client’s ITAM function through its next stage of evolution, through proactive and towards strategic asset management, implementing and embedding a service design, delivering on associated Regulatory commitments and establishing a roadmap.
Automated hardware and software tooling has recently been implemented.
This is a highly visible role interfacing with senior stakeholders across the organisation, as well as external parties, delivering and managing ongoing transformation to the evolving and expanding function.
Responsibilities
- Leading the ITAM evolution through proactive and towards strategic asset management, establishing and operating a revised function central to the organisations operating and security needs and embedding its new service design:
- ITAM to be the single source of the truth for hardware and software assets.
- Proactive management of the estate, the automated coverage position (scope, exceptions, plans etc.), ensuring clear asset ownership with escalation of gaps plus including reconciliation across disparate tools.
- Ensuring critical assets are identified on an ongoing basis (in order they can be protected).
- EOL/EOS reporting and remediation management with owners.
- Automating asset management / linking automated to reference data.
- Ongoing maintenance of the ITAM standard which sets out the function’s perimeter, tooling coverage, key definitions including criticality, End of Life / Service, governance / how the single source of the truth is maintained along with roles / responsibilities.
- Asset reporting into various organisational governance forums.
Software Asset Management; Software Lifecycle Management, Licence Compliance, Software Optimisation.
Hardware Asset Management; Hardware Lifecycle, Fixed asset Register maintenance (Physical Assets).
Procurement; Purchase Order Reconciliation, VAR Relationship Management.
Audits & Certs support; ISO27001, ISAE3000, Mastercard ITAM 2.0 and external.
- Define and enforce methodology compliance surrounding asset management and provide guidance in the development of new or revised processes.
- Ensures adherence to relevant ITAM policies and standards and / or having documented exceptions in place.
- Establish, document and gain organisational support to the future ITAM strategy / roadmap
Applicants will have the following experience:
- Leading IT Asset Management functions or transformations in comparable organisations.
- Establishing, implementing and driving ITAM strategies and practices.
- Business outcome-driven and customer-focused, strong orientation to help others in attacking complex problems and getting things done with limited resources and pressing timelines.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills with proven experience in relationship building and partnering.
- A proven track record of delivering in complex stakeholder organisations.
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