Industry Payments & Portfolio Head at Standard Bank Group

Job Description

• To provide enterprise leadership of the South Africa payments franchise and industry interaction across business units, setting a progressive, forward-looking country agenda across commercial priorities, customer experience, payment types and rails, platforms, operations and data.
• Exercise clear country-level mandate to align investment and execution, anticipate market and technology shifts and drive integrated growth outcomes, while enabling effective regulatory advocacy, compliance and change.Build and represent an SBSA payments view at regulatory and industry interactions.

Qualifications

• Type of Qualification: Masters Degree
• Field of Study: Business Commerce
• Type of Qualification: Post Graduate Degree
• Field of Study: Business Commerce
• Type of Qualification: Post Graduate Degree
• Field of Study: Finance and Accounting

Experience Required

Products

• Personal and Private Banking
• 5-7 years
• Broad knowledge of foreign exchange and cross-border payments, cards, acquiring, cash, collections, payment rails, payment platforms and payments technology.
• 5-7 years
• Essential knowledge and practical experience of payments regulation, regulatory engagement, compliance obligations and regulatory change in the South African payments environment.
• 8-10 years
• Proven track record of orchestrating complex execution across multiple business units, payment products, technology, operations, risk and control functions to deliver integrated outcomes.
• More than 10 years
• Significant senior or executive-level experience in payments within a large financial services institution. The incumbent must be an experienced transactional banking or payments professional with substantial leadership exposure across the payments value chain.

Behavioural Competencies:

• Convincing People
• Developing Expertise
• Developing Strategies
• Directing People
• Empowering Individuals
• Establishing Rapport
• Examining Information
• Exploring Possibilities
• Interacting with People
• Making Decisions
• Providing Insights
• Taking Action

Technical Competencies:

• Customer Understanding (Business Banking)
• Customer Understanding ( Consumer Banking)
• Financial Industry Regulatory Framework
• Knowledge Management Systems
• Stakeholder Management
• Strategic Planning and Reporting