Specialist Software Asset Management

3 weeks ago

Randburg, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

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- 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

As a Software Asset Management Specialist in the Absa Software Asset Management team, you will manage software licenses from planning to retirement across a wide range of platforms and publishers, to reduce the total cost of ownership while maintaining agreed-upon service levels. You will evaluate the software licensing needs for the organization and actively track licenses to ensure legal and regulatory compliance with the relevant stakeholders.

An ideal Software Asset Management Specialist is a recognized expert in the Software Asset Management field with extensive experience to optimally manage key software publishers across a wide range of enterprise platforms, able to analise and solve tough problems, interpret complex environments, consistently maintain a high level of accuracy, with expertise in Software Asset Management governance, risk, processes and best practice. She/he has a track record of aligning design decisions to business strategy and objectives and of providing insights and direction to the business and product owners at the most senior levels. She/he has a passion for problem-solving and continual service improvement and can provide insights into actionable and sustainable solutions.

**Job Description**:
Job Description Summary

As a Software Asset Management Specialist in the Absa Software Asset Management team, you will manage software licenses from planning to retirement across a wide range of platforms and publishers, to reduce the total cost of ownership while maintaining agreed-upon service levels. You will evaluate the software licensing needs for the organization and actively track licenses to ensure legal and regulatory compliance with the relevant stakeholders.

An ideal Software Asset Management Specialist is a recognized expert in the Software Asset Management field with extensive experience to optimally manage key software publishers across a wide range of enterprise platforms, able to analise and solve tough problems, interpret complex environments, consistently maintain a high level of accuracy, with expertise in Software Asset Management governance, risk, processes and best practice. She/he has a track record of aligning design decisions to business strategy and objectives and of providing insights and direction to the business and product owners at the most senior levels. She/he has a passion for problem-solving and continual service improvement and can provide insights into actionable and sustainable solutions.

Accountable: Manage software across Software Asset Management Lifecycle

Utilise your software licensing expertise by tracking, ensuring compliance, cost savings, risk mitigation, key metrics reporting, administrative efficiency and optimal use of software licenses, and overall efficiency of the Software Asset life cycle management - people, processes and technology,

Drive maximum value from our license agreements for Cloud, Server and End User Computing Software, while delivering a seamless experience for our users with daily and strategic management and control of the software portfolio to optimize the value, cost, and risk of software,

Manage, track, Update and Optimize the group’s software assets across all the platforms in scope, such as AWS, Azure, Windows, Unix, AIX, Linux, and other,

Manage and maintain Software Publishers and the corresponding data around it by ensuring complete, accurate, and current software and hardware asset inventory on the Flexera Software Asset Management toolset and ensuring it is aligned with the configuration management database (CMDB)

Accountable: Software Compliance and Audit readiness

Prepare the organization for or participate in a software audit with accurate ownership information to realize cost benefits, avoid unneeded software purchases, avoid penalties incurred from non-compliance and unused software licenses.

Ensure that Software licenses are reconciled and compliance exceptions regarding software usage and license agreements are reported and managed to ensure full compliance with terms and conditions of all software licensing documents and agreements

Develop, implement and maintain a remediation plan for licenses out of compliance or unauthorized for use within the organization

Engage with stakeholders and business owners as required as per the Software Asset Management framework, standard, policies, processes, procedures and risk and governance frameworks

Identify and execute cost-saving opportunities through software re-harvesting and license optimization, in conjunction with Product and Business owners

Identify risks, savings opportunities and optim

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