Executive: RoA Tech Business Enablement at Nedbank

Job Purpose

To be a functional leader and getting results through a complete function (functional synergy); competitive advantage for the business; building flexibility and effectiveness of the whole function; building functional state-of-the-art-results and credibility and understanding and valuing all sub-functions. To engage the future through functional best practice strategy and getting tomorrows results through addressing issues today.

Job Responsibilities

• Create a competitive and commercially successful function through understanding competitor activity and leveraging opportunities.
• Establish and drive the business strategy of the function. Ensuring commercial soundness and relevance through end to end Financial Management. Consistently met all goals and targets.
• Deliver all project portfolios relating to the implementation of IT projects per the project methodology and strategy.
• Ensure structures to drive high performance and delivery across project portfolios.
• Establish project metric to drive project benefits harvesting and delivery and drive compliance to project governance and methodology.
• Be accountable for implementation of programme and project governance.
• Work with key Group Technology (GT) or business stakeholders to cost or define a costed and/or prioritised programme of systems development that supports the organisation's objectives and strategic plans and communicate information about the agreed programme to GT and the business.
• Create a climate of cross-organisational cooperation . Lead a functional team and a matrix structure through establishing a clear direction and building critical mass support.
• Understand and influence the client strategic view in relation to their portfolio and participate in building appropriate rolling three year plan.
• Facilitate three-year GT strategic plan.
• Ensure appropriate client collaboration occurs and drive the implementation components of the GT strategy with each client set, to obtain traction against the overall Group IT Strategy per relevant Cluster.
• Make recommendations to the business on how to align IT Investment to address both strategic demands and operational challenges within the Clusters.
• Enable achievement of functional/Business Unit objectives by providing recommendations on Group IT Strategy to Architecture, per relevant client and where appropriate.
• Ensure alignment and achievement of strategy and create a completive advantage by translating the Nedbank and Business Unit strategy into a customised Divisional strategy.
• Develop and introduce a people strategy that will create a culture that drives the Cluster and Nedbank's vision and values. Build a high performance team.
• Ensure that the leadership agenda has been embraced by the division/function.
• Manage performance of reports and hold them accountable for managing the performance of their reports.
• Actively build a culture of improvement.
• Participate in the recruitmentof senior staff. Optimise performance and motivation.
• Empower team to make decisions and recommend tailored solutions to Business Unit specific problems.
• Ensure effective tactical processes and workflows are in place to drive effective and efficient service or product delivery.
• Support functional area delivery by building and sustaining the core capability required.
• Ensure alignment to governance and compliance requirements.
• Establish the change management capability as a core enabler of project or portfolio management.
• Ensure change management requirements are understood. Optimise systems and process.
• Establish and oversee the operation of systems and procedures for monitoring and reporting on the progress of systems development.
• Deal with exceptions, problems and unforeseen events in a timely manner.
• Ensure that new systems developments are compatible with the existing systems, architecture and strategic plans. 
• Ensure that systems development projects are carried out in accordance with the agreed standards and methods.

Essential Qualifications:

• IT Degree/Diploma
• Post Graduate Qualification

Minimum Experience Level 

• 10-15 years Business Management
• 4-8 years Executive Management 
• Hands on experience with delivering enterprise level change initiatives
• Solid experience with Core banking systems migrations and optimization across systems like     Flexcube or Temenos T24
• Design led thinking experience and exposure 
• Project management experience
   

Technical / Professional Knowledge:

• Budgeting
• Talent management
• Business writing skills
• Management information and reporting principles, tools and mechanisms
• Systems Analysis and design
• IT Concepts
• Incident and Problem resolution
• IT Change Control policies
• Client Service Management
• Operational frameworks (ITIL)