Business Unit CIO will support FNB Commercial Cash Product House. The successful candidate will manage and direct all IT resources to create and manage the portfolio of IT-enabled investment programs 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 and relevant 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 multidiscipline 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 amid 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