Head of Data: Cib

1 week ago

Sandton, South Africa Absa Bank Limited Full time

Bring your possibility to life Define your career with us
- 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

Do you have a structured mind-set? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment? If you are energised by data empowered decision making, visualization and execution join the CIB Business Enablement team as a Head Data Enablement. This role provides a unique opportunity to work with key business stakeholders and revolutionise the way in which data is produced and consumed in CIB. A successful applicant will have the skills to articulate and unify the technology, operations and business teams to make data a strategic enabler across the CIB franchise.

Close collaboration with Colleagues, Product Teams, Design Teams, Tech and Operational Teams will be required to co
- create solutions.

**Job Description**:
Key Accountabilities
- Formulate strategy on Data Management and Enablement in partnership with producer, consumer, product and technology and operations teams.
- Be pivotal in understanding emerging technology trends/breakthroughs (For example: Block chain, AI, Smart contracts), keep abreast of influencing factors in relevant security risks/new development
- Evaluate solutions that enable a client and colleague eco-system, provides differentiation, and reduction of cost in relation to Corporate Banking.
- Create platforms to engage with strategic clients and partners in co-creating solutions.
- Using deep insight into the needs of our clients and a deep understanding of our own operational / business processes and how these can be optimised.
- Portfolio management: Plan and manage ongoing investment and activity in-line with defined portfolio. Include capacity, capability planning and development
- Stakeholder management: Identify key stakeholders. Ensure clear understanding of their expectations and appropriately manage these together with the agreed objectives. Engage stakeholders to build ongoing support, mutual understanding and common commitment of values and principles. Define and agree stakeholder communication matrix across Africa Presence countries.
- Partner with Change team to train and support Data Consumers, Providers, Data Stewards and Data Owners
- Produce and disseminate regular communication that excites and galvanises the organization to aspire to data excellence
- Execution model: Plan and drive execution of activities aligned with the Corporate Digital Platform execution model Kanban/Agile with FLOW metrics
- Continually seek to improve the rate of turn/return through one full-cycle of the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop

Education and Experience Desired
- B-degree
- 5-8 years’ experience in the financial industry (Knowledge in Corporate Banking)
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in an Agile environment
- Financial and Regulatory reporting knowledge and experience
- Product Owner Certification (Kanban; Agile)

Education

Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Physical, Mathematical, Computer and Life Sciences (required)
- Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised_

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