Business Process Architect at Astron Energy (Pty) Ltd.

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the Enterprise Architecture to model processes across the layers (business, application, information, technology and security) to support medium and long term business objectives, including innovation and digital roadmap
• Responsible for ensuring business processes are aligned to best practice and maintained, additionally how the business and processes need to change to support business strategy at a lower level of business or quality improvement.
• Value Chain Mapping and driving alignment of all processes to the Astron Energy Logical Operating Model
• Managing large-scale, cross-functional, complex process improvement initiatives
• Conducting proactive and consistent research to identify process improvement opportunity, applying Lean principles where applicable and measures to determine and report on returned value at each iteration
• Promotes Lean principles to all processes, particular focus on the core processes of the value chain
• Assess and decide on methodologies, tools and techniques to lead process design and review initiatives
• Contributes to define architecture frameworks to support enabling multi speed deployment with effective management controls
• Defines KPIs and performs regular reviews to monitor performance.  Provides management information to the CXO and business units (EXCO) on relevant enterprise architecture initiatives
• Defining and ensuring appropriate governance and controls for business process management and participation in relevant governance forums
• Supports the Business and ensure business processes are aligned to best practice and maintained.
• Collaborate with the Capex Office and Project Support Group on project demand management and provide inputs to ensure standards and alignment to business processes and strategy

Professional Qualification and Certifications:

• BSc Engineering or similar qualification
• MBA (preferred)
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Practitioner
• Project Management certification (PMP, Agile or similar)

Work Experience:

• 10+ years of business process management experience
• 10+ years industry experience in Oil & Gas
• Experience working within cross business functions
• Extensive coaching, mentoring and facilitation experience

Knowledge and skills:

• Demonstrated ability to independently facilitate cross-functional teams in the improvement of challenging work processes to deliver impact results
• Strong knowledge of Business Strategy and Enterprise Architecture disciplines - including business process architecture, information / data architecture, application architecture and technology architecture
• Excellent strategic and tactical planning capabilities - proven experience in managing relationships with business leaders and external vendors
• Strong knowledge of general business processes - organisational performance and financial management
• Proven leadership - including team effectiveness, managing transformation and change management
• Demonstrate ability to independently facilitate cross-functional teams in the improvement of challenging work processes to deliver impact results.
• Ability to work effectively with a diverse team of individuals.
• Understanding business needs and identifying how best to meet those needs.
• Work with business and technology areas to gather requirements for development and management.
• Ability to analyse complex data, understands process performance and develops detailed plans to close gaps.

Application deadline:

28 July 2022