Strategic Platform Lead

2 months ago

Randburg, South Africa FirstRand Full time

Job Description

To focus on leading and maturing the customer platform strategy for FirstRand businesses to transform and enable a single view of the customer on platform

Are you someone who can:

- Draw up a budget aligned to tactical delivery plans to facilitate the provision of adequate financial resources.
- Manage expenditure planning and variances within approved budget parameters.
- Execute defined business strategy by translating it into the business operations.
- Communicate policy modification, objective achievement progress and critical success factors to impacted stakeholders.
- Ensure the development and implementation of multiple practices in alignment with operational policy and procedural frameworks.
- Identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives, driving best practice solutions.
- Establish mutually beneficial relationships with stakeholders that support thought leadership, innovative and integrated practice solutions.
- Be aware of, and responsive to local conditions Influence the development of appropriate organisational structures, capacity and delivery systems.
- Maintain expert knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and provide advice to relevant stakeholders.
- Maintain up to date knowledge of local and global trends.
- Provide thought leadership and expertise.
- Provide input into, and implement, corporate governance, compliance, integrity and ethics policies in are of accountability to identify and manage risk exposure.
- Stays abreast of relevant industry risk management best practices and legislative amendments and suggests ways to leverage these to ensure continuous improvement.
- Creates risk awareness and manages audit findings Participate in Group risk forums where required and cascades relevant information through team.
- Brainstorm, identify, implement and drive innovative best practice ideas within the organisation to ensure increased efficiencies.
- Create and participate in specialist communities of practice and represents the organisation at Group and industry level to share best practice insights and solutions.
- Drive strategic projects, change management and platform integration across operations.
- Leverage Group capability to exploit opportunities.
- Ensure and encourage adherence to an operational framework of policies and procedures.
- Lead the First ID Strategy across FirstRand businesses.
- Ensure execution of defined business strategy.
- Drive business benefit through platform impact assessment and value stream readiness.
- Engage with key stakeholders across the organisation to create awareness and buy-in of the strategy and their understanding of the impact thereof.
- Expedite new ways of working through effective engagement and collaboration between enterprise teams and the use of FirstID capabilities, factoring in data and design in all development.
- Drive and facilitate alignment between businesses across customer journey, architecture, and interface dimensions, ensuring platform readiness.
- Demonstrate leadership behaviour through personal involvement, commitment and dedication in support of organisational values.
- Manage team or teams in areas of responsibility in delivery against performance targets and achievement of wider human capital objectives.
- Develop, encourage and nurture collaborative relationships across business areas and across the group.

Education and Experience
- Grade 12
- Degree/Diploma engineering, tech, data and analytics
- 8-10+ years in i the filed/ and leadership role
- Exposure in interpreting data insights and translate into business and tech requirements and keep developers

You will have access to:

- Opportunities to network and collaborate.
- A challenging working environment
- Opportunities to innovate.

We can be a match if you are:

- Adaptable and curious
- Analyse complex data sets
- Solution driven.
- Thrive in a collaborative environment.

Additional Requirements:
Job Details

30/11/24

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