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Job Summary
Provide design & delivery support for technical strategy & operational planning, design & process engineering, resourcing, execution, business performance management & monitoring processes across technical product & service tribes in an estate. This includes but is not limited to:
- Communications
- Ideation & Design thinking
- Event Management
- People & Change Management
- Resource & Delivery Management
- Reporting & Analytics
- Financial Process Coordination
Job Description
Accountability:
Strategy & Business Planning Support
- Leverage business area knowledge & expertise to design & package outputs related to all strategy & business planning processes including reviews for multiple stakeholder groups
- Support the Tribe Support lead in the design and planning of all Strategy & Business Planning Processes upport the coordination of business planning & business performance review processes including e.g. venue, agenda’s, output management, input management
- Collate & coordinate business performance review trackers & reporting (monthly, quarterly, annually)
- Create a document / knowledge management system for all business planning processes (reports, reviews, decks, processes, templates etc.) for ongoing continuous improvement
Communication
- Develop & implement an integrated communications plan for the business area
- Work in collaboration with various functional leads to design & draft multiple communications (multimedia campaigns e.g. townhalls, newsletters, leader one on ones, leader key messages, leader story telling / narrative etc.) aligned to the communications plan across the estate (customers & employee orientated communications)
- Lead the activation of all communication processes across the estate
- Evaluate and continuously improve the impact of communications processes across the estate
- Ensure strong communications & change management alignment across the estate
- Stay ahead of best practice on estate wide communications & communications trends (e.g. digitized communications, graphic illustration etc.)
Resource & Delivery Management
- Consolidate project deliverables and interdependencies across tribes
- Identify release & delivery risks across tribes
- Act as a point of escalation & resolution for Scrum Masters as required in respect to delivery risk
- Coordinate appropriate delivery & release communications across tribes and squads where required
- Manage & track the integrated resource plan across identified tribes & squad.
- Identify resource implications & mitigate against these based on delivery requirements across tribes and squads (contingency, leave etc.)
- Manage & update resource management systems across identified tribes and squads
- In partnership with the People function & Line, successfully manage the resourcing process for tribes and squads
People & Change Management
- Coordinate large scale change programs across the estate
- Act as change coach & mentor across the business areas (small, medium & large scale)
- Develop change management plans for all planned change orientated activity (across the value chain e.g. suppliers, employees, customers etc.)
- In partnership with the functional leads and the people function, design & facilitate strategic change processes for the continued transformation of the business area
- Support all the people value chain processes including but not limited to: Resourcing, development, Performance, Talent
- Support includes but is not limited to: Coordination of various people process inputs by tribe leaders,scrum masters and broader squad team members, identification of people risks, consolidation & tracking of plans & insights, coaching & mentoring, team problem solving (leveraging design thinking).
Financial, Risk & Governance Process Coordination
- Support the implementation & management of financial, risk & governance processes for the business area e.g. budget management & reporting, internal / external, audit implementation & project management
- Lead the project management of various risk, finance & governance processes & issues resolution e.g. audit finding closure, governance / risk forum meetings, minutes and administration etc.
- Act as a point of escalation for all payments / other financial processing for the area and or facilitate payments processing with Key Centres of Enablement (where required to do so)
- Maintain & communicate policies and procedures related to all financial, risk & governance processes across the estate & proactively monitor compliance
Reporting & Analytics
- Act as the custodian for all reporting & analytics tools across tribes and squad
- Develop & standardize appropriate reporting & analytics tools for multiple stakeholder groups
- Coordinate and complete all reporting (monthly, quarterly, annually)
- Leverage reporting to drive insights and strategic action across the business.
Design Thinking & Ideation
- Evaluate existing organization wide business processes for continuous improvement and suggest changes (e.g. automation opportunities etc.)
- Lead the process engineering efforts across the business area (policies, practices)
- Design design thinking & ideation workshops, incubators and accelerators on behalf of the business leaders
- Lead and facilitate design thinking and ideation processes across the estate
- Stay ahead of design thinking practices as well as business specific knowledge to enable relevant and outcomes based design thinking outputs
Education and experience required
- B-degree in Commerce, Business Administration, Finance, Banking or Risk
- Exposure to strategy setting approache
- Five (5) years’ experience in the Financial Services industry
- Three (3-5) years’ experience in client relationship management
- Preferred / Advantage Three (3) years’ experience in dealing with complex and multiple stakeholder groups
- Experience in working with & within an Agile team / teams including a
- Agile certification
- Design thinking certification
- Experience in process improvement / enhancement
- Proven track record in reporting, dashboarding & analytics including tools for a large functional area
- Proven track record in coaching, mentoring & managing people related processes
- Expertise in working within a technology organization with clear understanding of roles and functions across technology
- Some experience in Systems Design & Development.
- Expertise in Risk Management, Governance, Compliance & Business Continuity Management & Disaster Recovery.
Competencies: (Maximum of 8 competencies)
- Generating Ideas
- Taking Action
- Making Decisions
- Managing Task
- Examining Information
- Establishing Rapport
- Embracing Change
- Pursuing Goals
Education
- Bachelor's Degree: Information Technology
Closing Date: 9th, April 2022