Head Governance - Sandton, South Africa - Absa Bank Limited

Absa Bank Limited

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Sandton, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Empowering Africa's tomorrow, together one story at a time.

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

To develop tactical strategy and delivery plans, formulate associated practice/s and to ensure operational implementation and adoption i.t.o. governance management methodology and delivery objectives.

Job Description:

Strategic partnership, planning & coordination

Leverage strong technical knowledge & understanding to facilitate the strategy development process for COO
Communicate & guide the Technology teams on broader business implications for the Strategy Planning processes
Work with project / programme offices to translate strategy into executable plans that include all dependencies, integration points etc. across tech stacks
Facilitate, Develop & Coordinate detailed business cases for combined Tech Delivery across the estate and translate these into the consolidated budgets & operational plans (see Finance)
Lead all technical project, programme and or strategic input processes to secure SI & BU Funding & overall administration related to strategic plans
Provide strategic partnership advisory across technical leadership teams on the technical business strategy, operations and delivery
Act as the custodian of technical strategy, process & policy for the business area
Coordinate & facilitate changes in strategy / policy on behalf of the business area & ensure stakeholder alignment for any specific changes
Realign business & people operations (e.g. reporting, analytics) to any strategic / policy changes across the business
Proactively identify risk (strategic & operational delivery, relationship, engagement etc.) for the technical function and provide recommendations for their resolution)
Represent the technology function in various strategic forums and management committees where required
Provide strategic advisory to the broader organization on the ongoing alignment of people, processes & systems (capabilities) to enable & enhance strategic & operational delivery

Business performance management, reporting, metrics & analysis

Define and implement a business performance management, reporting, metrics & analytics capability
Facilitate competitive business decision making through the provision of relevant & accurate business reporting & analytics
Design, facilitate & manage all business strategic performance reporting, scorecards, metrics, SLA / OLA & analysis (customer, people, finance etc.)
Conduct integrated business performance analysis, leveraging internal & external, local & global datasets, & derive key business insights
Provide business insights & guidance to the leadership team on shifts required & key opportunities to be leveraged
Document & manage ongoing business delivery to plan linked to this analysis
Manage all technical data analytics requirements (define & coordinate) reactive & predictive to maintain & support business area competitiveness (market)
Design all functional business / office operations management approaches, processes, tools & templates (reporting, regulatory e.g. audit processes, dashboards etc.)
Coordinate, facilitate & consolidate all Group Wide strategy & business management requirements e.g. group reporting, regulatory / governance / compliance reporting, audits etc.
In collaboration with the people function, align the business & people performance management processes & coordinate that these happen across the organization
Build strong business performance management & operations capability across the leadership team
Provide ongoing measurement of actual performance to plan (including budgets, business cases, etc.)
Prepare key themes, presentations and reviews for the business area (across tribes) including content design, packaging etc.

Risk, Governance & Compliance

Define, implement and manage the governance & risk framework
Lead the compliance & audit, governance and risk processes across the region e.g. pre audit, during audit, post audit
Regularly review risk & compliance profiles of the business unit and provide advisory support across Tribes to mitigate such risk
Continuously monitor risk impact of new strategies and plans across the business area and action review insights / recommendations
Identify & consolidate regulatory requirements specific to Technology
Work collaboratively across businesses, Centres of Enablement and countries to define and drive the delivery of regulatory requirements
Define relevant processes & mechanisms including e.g. delivery teams, programs, projects etc. and associated management routines to drive the delivery of regulatory requirements on time, on budget
Lead the board communication processes including data