Business Unit Chief Information Officer

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa FirstRand Full time

Job Description

To manage and direct all IT resources to create and manage the portfolio of IT-enabled investment programmes to achieve the company strategic objectives
- Establish overall area budget that enables achievement of strategic intent of business
- Manage budget to control expenditure and ensure the efficient use of resources
- Develop and implement business measurement metrics to ensure performance is measured against financial goals agreed for the operational areas and performance against competitors
- Monitor financial integrity of business and proactively deal with financial challenges
- Develop operational efficiency and quality standards in line with the targeted financial performance of the business
- Develop and ensure execution of integrated financial strategies to maximise growth across business areas
- Develop integrated frameworks, guidelines and optimisation plans to drive profitability and economic value add
- Design and co-create long term resource optimisation programmes that enable the availability of capital expenditure cash flow for area of responsibility
- Ensure financial strategies and processes are consistent with the objectives of the Group
- Create professional forums where financial health can be tracked and analysed at board level
- Influence and align strategic intent and delivery to provide value add to customers and shareholders
- Engage with relevant leaders to collaterally and proactively manage the requirements of relevant function or business
- Create alignment, collaboration and synergy between the various specialist areas to provide a comprehensive business solution to customers
- Balance interests of a variety of clients, readily readjusting priorities to respond to pressing and changing client demands
- Align, integrate and innovate area of accountability to enable the creation of an integrated and specialised solutions to create a sustainable competitive advantage for Business
- Conduct abstract, conceptual and comparative analysis of high-level reports for strategic decision making purposes
- Maintain expert knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and FirstRand internal compliance procedures and requirements
- Ensure compliance with audit requirements
- Ensure that sales strategies are aligned across customer value proposition
- Influence the understanding and adoption of the organisational strategic direction across all levels of the organisation and its stakeholders
- Define and create a long-term human capability strategic framework to enable sustainable business performance
- Ensure availability, support and maintenance of all IT systems in accordance with its business requirements
- Develop IT strategy in support of business objectives
- Identify business opportunities or create new business concepts and development approaches to support
- business growth through Information technology, Business Intelligence and Architectural tools and models
- Ensure robustness and quality of IT architectural decisions including motivations to the required FRG governance bodies
- Control the management of agreed IT and architectural projects to ensure successful implementation within agreed timelines
- Ensure effectiveness of projects by investigating the integrated nature of project requirements

You will be an ideal Business Unit CIO if you have the following qualifications, skills and experience:

- An appropriate tertiary qualification is a minimum requirement
- An additional business qualification would be an added advantage
- Experience in leading a complex technical team preferably in the Financial Services
- A minimum of 10 years solid experience in a complex, diverse and distributed IT environment
- Sound knowledge various programming languages
- A minimum of 15 years’ experience as a senior IT professional in a large and complex corporate environment, preferably banking
- A proven track record in managing IT shared services and large-scale IT projects in a decentralised organisational structure
- A tried and tested ability to manage and lead strong personalities, multidisciplinary and high performance teams
- Experience in driving organisation wide change initiatives and securing key stakeholder buy-in
- A sound IT functional knowledge and experience in systems development and IT operations and understanding of business processes
- Strategic thinker, able to clearly articulate, communicate and implement a vision for IT
- Leading a multidiscipline team
- Sound IT functional knowledge and experience in systems development and IT operations, and good understanding of business processes
- Able to manage engagement with a wide range of stakeholders
- Ability to understand and lead complex IT debates
- Ability to withstand immense pressure and restore calm in the midst of major crises
- Ability to influence and relate to people at all levels
- Good people management skills
- Key stakeholder management and sound relationships with k

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