Chief Information Officer

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**Do you see a future that includes more?**
**More exposure to innovative technologies, more personal growth, more experience?**
**Look at the position we have available and see how, together we can shape your future, so that you can give more and include more.**:

- Job Title- Chief Information Officer- Location- Selby - Johannesburg, GP 2001 ZA (Primary)- Occupational Level- Top Management- Job Category- IT Infrastructure- Job Type- Permanent**OUR THINKING***

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.**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 enabling them to do more, get more and benefit from financial inclusion so that they can give more.**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 have 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 greater access to the country’s financial landscape.

**WHERE WE'RE GOING**
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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 plans are 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 WILL DOThe Chief Information Officer (CIO) leads and inspires the internal Technology and Operations Delivery teams. As a member of the Executive Team, the incumbent identifies and acts on opportunities for development and continuous improvement, encourages prudent risk-taking, and explores alternative approaches and organizational learning. The incumbent is a key member of the broader Executive Leadership Team and drives the organisation’s ambitious digital agenda and Cloud journey.

Technology is driving significant change in the payments industry. The CIO must stay abreast of emerging technologies and provide strategic and operational leadership on areas that pose direct or indirect implications on BankservAfrica’ s mission critical clearing and settlement systems. The incumbent will partner with internal and external stakeholders to drive operational excellence at BankservAfrica. The CIO has a principal internal customer, the Chief Customer Officer & Chief Product Officer responsible for customer relationships and all our products and services across the customer verticals. The CIO and the Chief Product Officer are jointly responsible for delivery according to the Service Level Agreements agreed with our customers.

**You will engage with the following stakeholders**:

- CEO
- Executive Committee
- Senior management
- Board members
- Domestic regulatory bodies
- SADC regional and Rest of Africa regulatory bodies and government institutions
- Existing and potential clients
- Third Party Providers

**Key Responsibilities include**:

- Overseeing and managing the continuous (24x7) and incident-free operations of our