- Define and implement the strategy for companywide Big Data, Machine Learning, CVM, AI and analytics to ensure the user functions needs are implemented and deliver their use case requirements.
- Lead complex Big data, Analytics, Machine learning, CVM and AI projects, including planning, execution, and monitoring, while effectively coordinating with cross-functional teams.
- Provide thought leadership across the business to drive the adoption of world class practices in the fields of Big Data and analytics to deliver measurable business benefit
- Liaise with EXCO to define specific big data requirements that will aide decision making in line with strategy and mission delivery in their domains and for the wider business
- Use advanced analytics and statistical methods to analyse the company's data to unlock new opportunities as well as answer complex business questions to understand customer behaviour and business trends
- Contribute to the technology strategy for analytics platforms in liaison with Technology Lead and other key stakeholders to ensure overall Data requirements are met through the use of advanced technologies in the most cost effective and efficient way
- Lead in Building of advanced analytics skills and proficiency across the business to increase the output for decentralized decision making at the lowest level
- Drive an insight driven, data-led culture within the organization.
- Work hands-on with users and stakeholders across geographically dispersed markets. Create a successful engagement model and ensure that end results are applicable, understood, socialized, and drive business value. As part of this, driving regular show and tells for releases.
- Consciously takes steps to make the most of every conversation/interaction
- Identifies people's needs, interests and motives to be able to influence the decisions they make
- Communicates simply to excite and engage people
- Pro-actively adapts own style and approach to build rapport, and work with others more effectively
- Builds and maintains strong relationships and networks
- Targets effort and resources on high-value, high impact activity
- Focuses on achieving maximum performance and driving continuous improvement
- Thinks about processes and problems cross-functionally and end-to-end
- Uses knowledge of products, technology, process, systems and policy to solve problems
- Finds creative ways to exploit opportunities and solve problems
- Takes risks and pushes what is possible
- Experiments with unorthodox approaches
- Uses data and research to make decisions that are competitively and financially robust
- Balances current and future needs
- Thinks and acts like an owner of the business
- Acts in line with legal, regulatory, professional and ethical standards
- Cost management
- Revenue opportunity identification
- Responds flexibly to changing situations
- Manages the business and people aspects of change to drive performance
- Defines scope and deliverables in terms of time, cost, quality and business benefit
- Schedules activity and identifies resource needs, dependencies and synergies
- Evaluates progress, mitigates risks and addresses issues
- Analyses performance trends to determine the health of the business
- Steers business performance by using strategy and external data to help set goals
- Translates strategies into actionable plans that add value via process and operational improvements
- Maintains controls within Financial Systems through setup control and master data management
- Prepares, analyses, and summarises financial data to support business operations and deliver statutory information
- Ensures the integrity of processes and systems to record and authorise transactions in compliance with Safaricom accounting policies and regulation.
- Delivers timely and accurate reports to satisfy statutory and business requirements.
- Identifies key performance and variances, and provides recommendations.
- Bachelor's degree from a recognized university in a business-related field and/or information Technology
- Advanced qualifications in Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science or a related field preferred
- At least 15 years working experience in Analytics or Business Intelligence function
- Strong understanding of data to insight value chain (IoT, Data Integration, Data Management, Big Data, BI, AI/ML) and driving data literacy and insight-to-action capabilities across the company.
- Strong stakeholder engagement ability to relate with internal and external customers and working teams, forging good personal relationships both within and outside the company.
- Strong leadership skills and ability to attract, retain and develop teams of various technical backgrounds
- Deep analytical skills and keen attention to details
- Strong Project planning & delivery capability
- Expert ability to remodel static operational reports into Analytical reports
- Expert ability to work under tight deadlines and without supervision
M-Pesa Africa Executive Head: Big Data - Johannesburg, South Africa - Vodafone
Description
Business Unit:
M-Pesa is a pioneering fintech business and global market leader in mobile money. Starting from 2007 as a convenient means by which the unbanked and underbanked could make digital payments, M-Pesa has now grown to offer over 60 million active customers Financial Services, Enterprise, Merchant, and Retail solutions. We are proud of our work in enabling the digital economy in our markets, and in driving financial inclusion.
M-Pesa Africa is the largest FinTech providing services to more than 60 million customers and 5 million businesses solutions across Financial Services, Enterprise, Merchant and Retail. We are now well on our way to becoming the preferred digital payment method across the markets that we serve, for both in-store, remote and online payments. With headquarters in both Nairobi and Johannesburg, we serve markets that include Kenya, Tanzania, DRC, Lesotho, Ghana, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Mozambique.
We are a united , energetic and passionate team. A place where leaders coach, teams connect, and everyone is empowered to go further, faster. A place where heroes become superheroes; through growth, opportunity, and the chance to work with the best minds in FinTech.
Role purpose:
The role holder will be accountable to define and own the vision, strategy, policies and guidelines for Big Data and Analytics and drives excellence in execution. The role holder is responsible to evolve and lead our Big Data and Analytics as a center of excellence to world class status. This will be through thought leadership on the utilization of our proprietary data as a competitive advantage internally and externally in the market.
The role holder will leverage our data assets as a strategic differentiator through the enablement of better decision making and maximize value generation driving towards an insights-driven, data-led culture across the organization.
Your responsibilities will include:
Working with Others
Operational Excellence
Creativity and Innovation
Business Know how
Working with Change
Project and Programme Management
Planning and Control
Accounting
Reporting
The ideal candidate for this role will have:
Closing date for Applications: 30 April 2024
The base location for this role is, Midrand, Vodacom Campus.
The company's approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
Vodacom is committed to an organizational culture that recognizes, appreciates, and values diversity & inclusion.