Senior Card Scheme Specialist at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Description

Accountability:

• Formulate strategic initiatives toptimise opportunities and mitigate risks
• Ensure Absa fully embraces key regulatory challenges
• Manage key external stakeholders
• Oversee and coordinate key initiatives across Absa related tpayments related industry initiatives.
• Conduct in-depth analysis of implications of regulatory change including identification and quantification of payment risks arising from existing and new regulation
• Resolve payment related regulatory disputes across Absa Payments stakeholder groups
• Formulate group position in order tmitigate risk of possible financial penalties
• Drive industry regulatory reforms relating tpayments
• Maintain ongoing internal dialogue on key Group wide payment risks
• Raise awareness of payment regulatory issues across the Group
• Oversee Absa positioning with regards tregulatory changes relating tpayments
• Align strategic response tregulatory change with Group Payment Strategy and communicate response trelevant SBU heads
• Introduce proper governance for addressing strategic risk in payments
• Formulate appropriate National Payment System strategy and ensure execution of initiatives for existing and new payments systems
• Lead, motivate and develop a high-performing team
• Perform people management functions, including but not limited to:
• workforce and recruitment demand planning
• recruitment
• talent management and succession planning
• mentoring and coaching
• management of discipline and grievances
• performance development
• reward and recognition management
• training and development

Accountability:

• Review and update organisation structure and role profiles regularly
• Ensure satisfactory service delivery and equal distribution of workload in the  team
• Manage cost within approved budget
• Ensure compliance tAbsa policies, legislation and regulations and that all staff compliance training and attestations are in place

Education

• Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology

Closing Date: 24th, March 2022