IT Executive: Core Banking (Rest of Africa)

Our client in the Banking industry is seeking an IT Executive: Core Banking that will join their team in Sandton.

Responsibilities:

Create a competitive and commercially successful function through understanding competitor activity and leveraging opportunities.
Establish and drive the business strategy of the function. Ensuring commercial soundness and relevance through end to end Financial Management. Consistently met all goals and targets.
Deliver all project portfolios relating to the implementation of IT projects per the project methodology and strategy.
Ensure structures to drive high performance and delivery across project portfolios.
Establish project metric to drive project benefits harvesting and delivery and drive compliance to project governance and methodology.
Be accountable for the implementation of programme and project governance.
Work with key Group Technology (GT) or business stakeholders to cost or define a cost and/or prioritised programme of systems development that supports the organisation’s objectives and strategic plans and communicate information about the agreed programme to GT and the business.
Create a climate of cross-organisational cooperation. Lead a functional team and a matrix structure through establishing a clear direction and building critical mass support.
Understand and influence the client strategic view in relation to their portfolio and participate in building an appropriate rolling three-year plan.
Facilitate a three-year GT strategic plan.
Ensure appropriate client collaboration occurs and drive the implementation components of the GT strategy with each client set, to obtain traction against the overall Group IT Strategy per relevant Cluster.
Make recommendations to the business on how to align IT Investment to address both strategic demands and operational challenges within the Clusters.
Enable achievement of functional/Business Unit objectives by providing recommendations on Group IT Strategy to Architecture, per relevant client and where appropriate.
Ensure that the leadership agenda has been embraced by the division/function.
Manage the performance of reports and hold them accountable for managing the performance of their reports.
Participate in the recruitment of senior staff. Optimise performance and motivation.
Empower the team to make decisions and recommend tailored solutions to Business Unit specific problems.
Ensure effective tactical processes and workflows are in place to drive effective and efficient service or product delivery.
Support functional area delivery by building and sustaining the core capability required.
Ensure alignment to governance and compliance requirements.
Establish the change management capability as a core enabler of project or portfolio management.
Establish and oversee the operation of systems and procedures for monitoring and reporting on the progress of systems development.
Deal with exceptions, problems and unforeseen events in a timely manner.
Ensure that new systems developments are compatible with the existing systems, architecture and strategic plans. Ensure that systems development projects are carried out in accordance with the agreed standards and methods.

Requirements:

10-15 years of Business Management
4-8 years of Executive Management
Hands-on experience with delivering enterprise-level change initiatives
Solid experience with Core banking systems migrations and optimization across systems like Flexcube or Temenos T24
Design-led thinking experience and exposure
Project management experience

For more information please contact Bongi 011 234 0404, alternatively email your updated CV to Bongiwe@esmartgroup.co.za