Executive: Card and Payments

**Job Requisition**

115941

**Job Location**

Sandton

**Career Stream**

Product

**Leadership Pipeline**

Manage Function (MF)

**FAIS Affected**

**Job Purpose**

**Responsibilities**:

- Achieve agreed financial objectives by driving sustainable growth and performance of Nedbank Enterprise Issuing and Acquiring Products and Solutions.
- Develop a strategic and action plan to operationalise and implement how Nedbank will compete in market, how market share will be gained and what factors will give Nedbank a competitive capability and advantage within the Card and Payments portfolio.
- Remain competitively positioned by proactively monitoring and responding to competitor activities and legislative requirements through proactive market research, benchmarking of industry best practices and legislative research.
- Meet business objectives by communicating and actioning insights for competitive advantage using integrated reports and analytics.
- Meet financial objectives by leading and supporting the organisational budgeting process and overseeing reporting and monitoring of organisational and functional business unit performance.
- Achieve excellence in strategy execution by integrating people, processes, management, systems, measurements and rewards.
- Create organisational alignment and collaboration with other business areas within the Cluster and Cross-Cluster to drive common achievement of the Nedbank strategy and objectives.
- Achieve risk management, governance and compliance requirements by ensuring adherence to agreed processes and policies.
- Mitigate risk by implementing non-financial and financial controls.
- Develop and lead profitable product solutions that grow Card and Payments Products market share and brand presence.
- Market awareness of the changing trends in payments solutions along with changing clients' needs.
- Exploring potential new opportunities based on how our products compare in the market and their profitability.
- Lead the implementation of new products and services from Incubation to Commercialisation and Scale.
- Explore the value and feasibility of new potential products and services along with potential needs for partnerships within the Acquiring Ecosystem.
- Drive the operationalisation of products and services needed, minimizing organisational complexity and cost to serve.
- Manage and Lead the American Express brand and growth strategy in South Africa.
- Manage team effectively and efficiently across the HR value chain including recruitment, performance management, retention of critical staff, succession planning and coaching and talent management.

**Essential Qualifications - NQF Level**
- Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree

**Preferred Qualification**
- Honour’s Degree

**Minimum Experience Level**

7 - 10 years experience in managing a Business Function within Payments in Banking or Financial Services

**Technical / Professional Knowledge**
- Digital Knowledge
- Payments Knowledge
- IT Technical Knowledge
- Financial Principles
- Client Experience
- Leadership and Communication
- Strategic Planning and Execution
- Governance, Risks and Controls
- Business Acumen
- Product Development and Life Cycle

**Type of Exposure**
- Working with a group to identify alternative solutions to work situations.
- Implementing actions to improve the organisational culture
- Building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external clients and vendors
- Implementing and managing strategies to achieve business area objectives
- Representing the company in Industry related forums
- Displaying high level of ethics, integrity and confidentiality
- Consolidate data from various sources and identify/interpret trends
- Formulating and implementing communication strategies to cascade functional strategies
- Negotiating a major deal/contract
- Providing input into strategy formulation
- **_Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at
+27 860 555 566
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