Head Governance

2 weeks ago

Sandton, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time
Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together one story at a time.

  • 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

To develop tactical strategy and delivery plans, formulate associated practice/s and to ensure operational implementation and adoption i.t.o. governance management methodology and delivery objectives.

Job Description:

Strategic partnership, planning & coordination

  • Leverage strong technical knowledge & understanding to facilitate the strategy development process for COO
  • Communicate & guide the Technology teams on broader business implications for the Strategy Planning processes
  • Work with project / programme offices to translate strategy into executable plans that include all dependencies, integration points etc. across tech stacks
  • Facilitate, Develop & Coordinate detailed business cases for combined Tech Delivery across the estate and translate these into the consolidated budgets & operational plans (see Finance)
  • Lead all technical project, programme and or strategic input processes to secure SI & BU Funding & overall administration related to strategic plans
  • Provide strategic partnership advisory across technical leadership teams on the technical business strategy, operations and delivery
  • Act as the custodian of technical strategy, process & policy for the business area
  • Coordinate & facilitate changes in strategy / policy on behalf of the business area & ensure stakeholder alignment for any specific changes
  • Realign business & people operations (e.g. reporting, analytics) to any strategic / policy changes across the business
  • Proactively identify risk (strategic & operational delivery, relationship, engagement etc.) for the technical function and provide recommendations for their resolution)
  • Represent the technology function in various strategic forums and management committees where required
  • Provide strategic advisory to the broader organization on the ongoing alignment of people, processes & systems (capabilities) to enable & enhance strategic & operational delivery
Business performance management, reporting, metrics & analysis

  • Define and implement a business performance management, reporting, metrics & analytics capability
  • Facilitate competitive business decision making through the provision of relevant & accurate business reporting & analytics
  • Design, facilitate & manage all business strategic performance reporting, scorecards, metrics, SLA / OLA & analysis (customer, people, finance etc.)
  • Conduct integrated business performance analysis, leveraging internal & external, local & global datasets, & derive key business insights
  • Provide business insights & guidance to the leadership team on shifts required & key opportunities to be leveraged
  • Document & manage ongoing business delivery to plan linked to this analysis
  • Manage all technical data analytics requirements (define & coordinate) reactive & predictive to maintain & support business area competitiveness (market)
  • Design all functional business / office operations management approaches, processes, tools & templates (reporting, regulatory e.g. audit processes, dashboards etc.)
  • Coordinate, facilitate & consolidate all Group Wide strategy & business management requirements e.g. group reporting, regulatory / governance / compliance reporting, audits etc.
  • In collaboration with the people function, align the business & people performance management processes & coordinate that these happen across the organization
  • Build strong business performance management & operations capability across the leadership team
  • Provide ongoing measurement of actual performance to plan (including budgets, business cases, etc.)
  • Prepare key themes, presentations and reviews for the business area (across tribes) including content design, packaging etc.
Risk, Governance & Compliance

  • Define, implement and manage the governance & risk framework
  • Lead the compliance & audit, governance and risk processes across the region e.g. pre audit, during audit, post audit
  • Regularly review risk & compliance profiles of the business unit and provide advisory support across Tribes to mitigate such risk
  • Continuously monitor risk impact of new strategies and plans across the business area and action review insights / recommendations
  • Identify & consolidate regulatory requirements specific to Technology
  • Work collaboratively across businesses, Centres of Enablement and countries to define and drive the delivery of regulatory requirements
  • Define relevant processes & mechanisms including e.g. delivery teams, programs, projects etc. and associated management routines to drive the delivery of regulatory requirements on time, on budget
  • Lead the board communication processes including data

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