Team Leader

Job Description**:
WHAT WE NEED**
TEAM LEADER

**WHO WE ARE?**
We’re an innovative technology company with strong ties to the financial industry. Innovating bank interoperability since 1972, supporting the growth of the South African Economy and individuals across the continent, is what we excel at. Continuously striving for financial inclusion and providing everyone with access to the digital economy.

**WHAT WE DO**
Access to financial Inclusion ensures individual growth and economic growth - securing the growth of the African nation. We have served this noble purpose for five decades across the African Continent and our growth spurs us on to do more, give more and include more.

We are firm believers in our people and the Adaptability Quotient (AQ) inherent in each of us that makes us strive to thrive. BankservAfrica has a high AQ and it is this quality that has driven our business to continuously innovate and evolve, building capability and capacity to include more, enabling there to access to the country’s financial landscape.

We provide skills, development opportunities and leadership support to our people so that they can hone their skills to do more and give more in support of each other, our clients, and our communities in a supportive, yet performance driven, environment.

**WHERE WE'RE GOING**
The payments landscape is being modernised globally and, therefore, ours is an exciting industry to be part of. New technologies are the main thrust driving this change. Technology enables the possibilities and people’s ingenuity creates opportunities.

As an enabler, our future is orchestrated around assembling a central payments environment that actively seeks and acquires strategic partners to enable service extensions. The core of our Financial Services Platform is a fully interoperable, cloud-ready composite platform delivering real-time value transfer and settlement, enhanced by a range of value added services.

**The platform will leverage technological advancements aimed at**:
Managing complex volumes
Faster deployment and faster change
Personalised user experiences, with standardised platform experiences being the norm
Doing more will be realised through our creation of platform extension partners who will benefit from our standardised API capability which they in turn can offer to their clients, giving more. We aim to include new Market Actors through our value chain extension which will allow ‘pass-through’ connection in those cases where an existing actor passes services through a new actor enabling them to give more to the ecosystem without compromising the security or the role of the heavily regulated financial institutions.

**WHAT YOU’LL DO**

Your core responsibility will be to provide certainty in respect of the roles and responsibilities which include the following Information assurance and management, IT governance and management, IT security principals, mentoring, problem management, quality assurance management and standards, leadership as well as processes and procedures to be followed and to ensure that BankservAfrica meets the Group’s obligations to its clients 24/7/365 days.

A typical work day would include processing, monitoring, delivery, quality, problem reporting, client requirements internal and external, and SLA achievements.

**Key stakeholders include but are not limited to**:
Internal and External Stakeholders
PASA and SARB

**Qualification/Knowledge (including most relevant field of study)**
Matric
Linux, Windows, Network training an advantage
Required computer literacy levels

**Experience (including relevant sector specific experience)**
Experience in operating systems i.e. Linux, Hardware, Software, Windows and Network
Prior supervisory experience
Minimum 5 years’ experience in related field

All positions will be filled in accordance with our Employment Equity plan. We also encourage people with disabilities to apply