Interim Information Manager (9 mth maternity cover)

Location: London

Status: 9 month fixed term contract (maternity cover)

Direct reports: Information Associate 

Reports to: Chief Technology Officer  

Job purpose 

Leading the Information Management team in enhancing information management strategies and practices across the Foundation, ensuring data quality, governance and integrity. Managing the IFRS Foundation’s SharePoint environment, developing its architecture and implementing any key changes. This includes internal and external stakeholder management, supporting business process improvements and providing training and support for staff. 

The team 

The Information Management team ensure that all colleagues value and manage information and best practices as key assets to enable evidence-based decisions in support of our organisation-wide mission.​ 

We do this by:​ 

• Proactively managing our digital and physical information assets. This includes document management via SharePoint, reference management and hardcopy library management. 


• Enabling the organisation to collect and analyse evidence in relation to standard-setting and other strategic projects.​ 


• Improving information management best practice through strategy, governance and data quality initiatives.​​ 


• Supporting our global workforce by providing training and resources to help colleagues self-serve where possible. We provide training on SharePoint/Teams, our financial intelligence databases and survey tools. 

Principal accountabilities:

• Manage SharePoint architecture design and implementation activities whilst promoting documents and records management best practice. 


• Manage improved information management strategies and practices across the Foundation including governance, data and information, policy and culture. 


• Provide oversight and management controls across the Information Management team. 

SharePoint Architecture, Design and Implementation activities 

• Manage all SharePoint architecture design and implementation activities for the Foundation, ensuring best practice principles underpin all SharePoint activities. 


• Oversee SharePoint build work undertaken by authorised staff. 


• Conduct assessment of requests for change or new capabilities with regards to SharePoint ensuring that the Information Security Group (ISG) signs off any impactful changes. 


• Conduct any migration planning activities and subsequent implementations. 

Strategic Information Management 

• Work with all levels of the organisation to fully understand business plans, objectives and drivers and identify where appropriate Information Management, systems, process and technology changes can help them improve their services. 


• Manage improved information management practice across the Foundation including governance, data quality and information integrity, and ensure this is underpinned by appropriate policy and practice development. 


• Ensure all processes of information asset management are embedded in ways of working, continuously improved and regular Foundation staff awareness, training and support is available. 


• Ensure master data management, data quality, confidentiality and integrity is at the heart of organisational process and informational flows. 


• Work with members of the organisation to develop their business process with regards to Information Management and data improvements, including educating on documents and records management best practice through the implementation of new systems and processes and ways of working improvement. 


• Provide a proactive link between stakeholder organisations, internal teams, our IT department and third parties to successfully deliver systems and technology projects relating to Information Management improvement ensuring high quality process and data driven transformation is at the heart of new solutions. 

Information Management Team Leadership 

• Support the Information Management team to enable smooth running of the work programme. 


• Support the Information Associate as necessary in the procurement of research and feedback tools and corporate subscriptions. 


• Liaise closely with the Technology Leadership team, surfacing relevant Information Management activities as needed. 

Qualifications 

Essential 

• Appropriate qualifications in SharePoint Architecture and Design. 


• Information Management accreditation. Equivalent work experience considered. 

Preferred 

• Current qualification in programme (MSP) and project management (PRINCEII). 


• Change management qualification e.g ProSci. 

Experience  

Essential 

• Experience of SharePoint Architecture and Design. 


• Ability to relate to the needs and operating environment of an international not-for-profit body. 


• Demonstrable stakeholder management skills with previous experience of dealing with senior executives, external vendors and third-party providers. 


• Ability to advise teams on their Information Management work projects in relation to the Information Management strategy programme at the Foundation. 

Preferred 

• Experience managing the delivery of research, information or library services to an organisation including people, budget and vendor management. 

Skills and attributes  

Essential 

• Analytical with advanced skills in Microsoft applications, specifically SharePoint, Teams, Excel, Outlook, Project, Visio and Word. Working knowledge of Power BI. 


• Good knowledge of change management approaches, planning and control, budgeting and resource allocation procedures. 


• Pro-active, organised and decisive. 


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to motivate and drive productivity. 


• Effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to find ways of solving or pre-empting problems. 

Preferable 

• Knowledge of research and financial intelligence databases and tools such as Nexis, Capital IQ, Alphasense and EBSCO. 


• Knowledge of Adobe Workfront or other project management tools to analyse and synthesise data. 

Application Closing Date:  18th July 2025

Please note that while we have a closing date for this application, we reserve the right to interview candidates and potentially close the role early should we find a suitable candidate before the closing date.

Help shape the future of reporting for global financial markets

The IFRS Foundation is a public interest, not-for profit organisation that sets corporate reporting standards for the capital markets globally. IFRS Accounting Standards are required for use by more than 140 countries whilst IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards are rapidly becoming the global baseline for sustainability disclosures worldwide.

We are a highly diverse and inclusive organisation. Our 350+ staff come from more than 45+ different countries and are united in supporting the mission of the Foundation to bring transparency, accountability and efficiency to capital markets worldwide. With offices in London, Frankfurt, Montreal, Tokyo, Beijing and San Francisco, the Foundation is truly a global standard-setter.

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