Head: Regulatory Strategy at Absa Group

As we reimagine our business for digital transformation, this capability plays a critical role in mapping out a business architecture that is robust and future fit. This role will be required to connect the strategic direction of the business and its operating model to business process, systems, data and people to enable the delivery of current and future strategic programmes that will bring sustainable business value.

BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE ROLE:

• A broad, enterprise-wide view of the business and varying degrees of appreciation for strategy, processes and capabilities, design, enabling technologies, and governance
• The ability to recognize structural issues within the organization, functional interdependencies and cross-silo redundancies
• Work in collaboration with delivery teams to independently analyse customer requirements & varying business capabilities & leverage analysis to identify & accurately spec / frame ‘the complex business problems we are aiming to solve’ as part of all our critical programmes
• The ability to apply architectural principles to business solutions, Lead design thinking processes to successfully deliver solution blueprints & associated roadmaps
• The ability to assimilate and correlate disconnected documentation and drawings, and articulate their collective relevance to the organization and to high-priority business issues
• Experience using model-based representations that can be adjusted as required to collect, aggregate or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business
• The ability to visualize and create high-level models that can be used in future analysis to extend and mature the business architecture
• Extensive experience planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives
• Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques
• Exceptional communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations
• The ability to act as liaison conveying information needs of the business to IT and data constraints to the business; applies equal conveyance regarding business strategy and IT strategy, business processes and workflow automation, business initiatives and IT initiatives, and benefit realization and service delivery
• Team player able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with the ability to influence others to move toward consensus
• Strong situational analysis and decision-making abilities

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop a business architecture strategy based on a situational awareness of various business scenarios and motivations.
• Apply a structured business architecture approach and methodology for capturing the key views of the enterprise.
• Capture the tactical and strategic enterprise goals that provide traceability through the organization and are mapped to metrics that provide ongoing governance.
• Describe the primary business functions of the enterprise and distinguish between customer-facing, supplier-related, business execution and business management functions.
• Define the set of strategic, core and support processes that transcend functional and organizational boundaries; identify and describe external entities such as customers, suppliers, and external systems that interact with the business; and describe which people, resources and controls are involved in the processes.
• Define the data shared across the enterprise and the relationships between those data.
• Capture the relationships among roles, capabilities and business units, the decomposition of those business units into subunits, and the internal or external management of those units

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• B Degree or NQF level 7 or higher
• Minimum 5 years as a business architect with practical hands-on experience
• Track record in the contribution of digital transformation programmes
• At least 5 years relevant experience in reviewing, creating and implementing new operating models and frameworks

WHAT’S ON OFFER:

• Great Team environment
• Autonomy to produce excellent results and delight customers.
• Opportunity to transform a business end to end

DISCLAIMER:

• Preference will be given to South African citizens and permanent residents of South Africa in possession of proof of Permanent Resident Status.
• The appointment will be made in line with the Divisional Employment Equity Strategy.
• There is no referral plan linked to his requisition.
• Closing date: Midnight: 22nd of January 2021.