FNB is well renowned for its many groundbreaking innovations that have significantly reshaped the banking landscape in South Africa. At the core of these innovations lies a strong technology capability that has been developed over many years and is constantly refined in line with the latest developments. Our unique application of technology has become one of our major sources of competitive advantage. Accordingly therefore, the successful candidate will be expected to build on this track record of success by formulating and directing the bank’s IT strategy as well as leading other key technology initiatives and practices across the bank

• To manage and direct all IT resources to create and manage the portfolio of IT-enabled investment programmes to achieve the company strategic objectives
• Establish overall area budget that enables achievement of strategic intent of business
• Manage budget to control expenditure and ensure the efficient use of resources
• Develop and implement business measurement metrics to ensure performance is measured against financial goals agreed for the operational areas and performance against competitors
• Monitor financial integrity of business and proactively deal with financial challenges
• Develop operational efficiency and quality standards in line with the targeted financial performance of the business
• Develop and ensure execution of integrated financial strategies to maximise growth across business areas
• Develop integrated frameworks, guidelines and optimisation plans to drive profitability and economic value add
• Design and co-create long term resource optimisation programmes that enable the availability of capital expenditure cash flow for area of responsibility
• Ensure financial strategies and processes are consistent with the objectives of the Group
• Create professional forums where financial health can be tracked and analysed at board level
• Influence and align strategic intent and delivery to provide value add to customers and shareholders
• Engage with relevant leaders to collaterally and proactively manage the requirements of relevant function or business
• Create alignment, collaboration, and synergy between the various specialist areas to provide a comprehensive business solution to customers
• Balance interests of a variety of clients, readily readjusting priorities to respond to pressing and changing client demands
• Align, integrate, and innovate area of accountability to enable the creation of an integrated and specialised solutions to create a sustainable competitive advantage for Business
• Conduct abstract, conceptual, and comparative analysis of high-level reports for strategic decision-making purposes
• Maintain expert knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and FirstRand internal compliance procedures and requirements
• Anticipate and apply and policies/procedures to manage and control both financial and non-financial risks
• Ensure compliance with audit requirements
• Ensure that sales strategies are aligned across customer value proposition
• Influence the understanding and adoption of the organisational strategic direction across all levels of the organisation and its stakeholders
• Define and create a long-term human capability strategic framework to enable sustainable business performance
• Ensure availability, support, and maintenance of all IT systems in accordance with its business requirements
• Develop IT strategy in support of business objectives
• Identify business opportunities or create new business concepts and development approaches to support business growth through Information technology, Business Intelligence and Architectural tools and models
• Ensure robustness and quality of IT architectural decisions including motivations to the required FRG governance bodies
• Control the management of agreed IT and architectural projects to ensure successful implementation within agreed timelines
• Ensure effectiveness of projects by investigating the integrated nature of project requirements

• An appropriate tertiary qualification is a minimum requirement
• An additional business qualification would be an added advantage
• Experience in leading a complex technical team preferably in the Financial Services
• A minimum of 10 years solid experience in a complex, diverse, and distributed IT environment
• Sound knowledge various programming languages
• A minimum of 15 years’ experience as a senior IT professional in a large and complex corporate environment, preferably banking
• A proven track record in managing IT shared services and large-scale IT projects in a decentralised organisational structure
• A tried and tested ability to manage and lead strong personalities, multidisciplinary and high-performance teams
• Experience in driving organisation wide change initiatives and securing key stakeholder buy-in
• A sound IT functional knowledge and experience in systems development and IT operations and understanding of business processes
• Strategic thinker, able to clearly articulate, communicate and implement a vision for IT
• Leading a multidisciplinary team
• Sound IT functional knowledge and experience in systems development and IT operations, and good understanding of business processes
• Able to manage engagement with a wide range of stakeholders
• Ability to understand and lead complex IT debates
• Ability to withstand immense pressure and restore calm in the midst of major crises
• Ability to influence and relate to people at all levels
• Good people management skills
• Key stakeholder management and sound relationships with key players in the IT community across the Group
• Well-developed verbal and written communication skills
• Sound business acumen and ability to identify opportunities to innovate
• Business engineering and process automation skills
• High energy levels and results orientation