Executive Technology Strategy

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time
Bring your possibility to life Define your career with us

  • With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary

Job Description:

Strategy Formulation and Execution

  • Guide and support the implementation of reporting tools that enable a higher quality of management decision making.
  • Provide expert advice and support in terms of operating model, strategy and value chain formulation and alignment.
  • Provide expert advice in the identification of practises/technologies which could provide a competitive advantage to the organisation.
  • Contribute to the development of the strategy for the business line by providing a view of the profitability of business units through analysis and performance forecasts.
  • Accountable for enabling information technology management to achieve the desired optimised state by enabling strategic initiatives that drive the functional strategy.
Customer Primacy

  • Plan and deliver services that create a culture which aims to exceed customer expectations in all aspects of the business.
  • Provide expert advice and support with the integration of service excellence culture, which enables exceptional service to customers that meet or exceed customer needs and expectations.
  • Provide expertise, advice, and support with the formulation of integrated frameworks to ensure exceptional customer service.
Sustainable Growth

  • Formulate and develop a multifunction operating framework that positively contributes to the achievement of sustainable growth.
Client-Driven Innovation and Change

  • Drive change management activities across a single value chain to ensure optimal adoption for change.
  • Influence and communicate across all levels of the business to minimise resistance to change and ensure onboarding of target audiences.
  • Scan the external environment, investigate alternative operating plans or models, and offer innovative advice to deliver a competitive advantage.
Leading Talent

  • Provide expertise and advice to minimise resistance to change and ensure onboarding of target audiences.
  • Provide expertise, advice and support in the development and implementation of human capability and accountability frameworks across functions in support of people management strategies achievement.
Operational Effectiveness

  • Identify problems in the functional area and formulate alternate solutions to resolve value chain conflicts.
  • Provide expert advice and support in the development of operational and profitability models.
  • Facilitate the adoption of an agile way of working and be able to react fast and bring meaningful solutions to developments within the business line.
  • Provide expertise and advice in the implementation and monitoring of controls, governance, and compliance protocols.
  • Develop, identify and provide strategic IT specialist knowledge to processes and systems, these include IT systems, reporting and analytics.
  • Accountable for enabling information technology management to achieve the desired optimised state by enabling strategic initiatives that drive the functional strategy, business architecture and shared service capabilities.
  • Embed the business operating model by aligning and integrating business architectures i.e., process, technology, information and people.
  • Provide data technology leadership, direction and innovation to the ITO area aligned to the business strategy.
  • Advise the business line on the business performance of all IT strategic goals against the strategic objectives and financials. Facilitate the discussions on the way forward.
  • Assess the overall IT requirements and performance versus strategic ambition.
Digital Adoption

  • Deliberately identify opportunities to digitise, automate and implement solutions for customer primacy, innovation, and operational effectiveness
  • Drive technology enablement focusing on streamlining internal operations through the implementation of digital platforms and solutions.
Good Governance Risk and Compliance

  • Define and consolidate the risk profile for the business unit, manage critical risks and ensure resolution feedback to all relevant stakeholders.
  • Enable the development and implementation of integrated corporate governance and compliance frameworks in areas of functional specialisation.
  • Provide oversight of the management of operational risks across organisational functional areas including oversight on the resolution of risk events.
Data Monetisation

  • Oversee the explicit use of data and its inherent value to explore opportunities that plan and guide all decisions for execution.
Minimum Requirements

years' experience in a specific capability of importance to the bank, including a track record of 3 years in a senior information technology position.

Education
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