Executive: Enterprise Quality Assurance at Nedbank

Job Purpose

• To be a functional leader and get results through a complete function (functional synergy); competitive advantage for the business; building flexibility and effectiveness of the whole function; building functional state-of-the-art-results and credibility and understanding and valuing all sub-functions. To engage the future through functional best practice strategy and getting tomorrows results through addressing issues today.

Job Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders for effective consolidation and delivery on all business requirements to ensure value added results for the Group.
• Monitor key expectations of internal and external stakeholders and build long term relationships to ensure a strategic partnership.
• Promote a healthy culture by being a values driven leader and strategic business partner.
• Create an environment and drive own team to improve external relationships as to ensure that sub-functional and Group HRobjectives are being met.
• Ensure services to client meet expectations. Deliver service to client expectations.
• Support execution capability by ensuring Divisional and Group strategy is translated into effective and clear business plans.
• Drive collaboration and integration across functional areas within the Group Technology (GT) value chain and into the client environment.
• Deliver client value through alignment with strategic intent by ensuring the client service portfolio is reflective of the emerging needs of the client and transparently presented.
• Ensure optimal functional service delivery.
• Drive the implementation of innovative HR solutions and continuous improvements to ensure competitive advantage for the Group.
• Drive the required change intervention to deliver on solutions implemented to ensure ROI.
• Keep abreast of new developments and best practice in strategy, business planning and execution to ensure reciprocal returns for Nedbank.
• Produce, align and monitor EE and Transformational plan with Group Strategy to ensure compliance with legislation, correcting any deviations. Identify inequalities or barriers within the division by investigating survey results and Remuneration data to ensure achievement of Cluster EE Plans.
• Set guidelines to facilitate achievement of Department of Trade and Industry (dti) and Nedbank targets.
• Drive corporate citizenship. Develop and Introduce a strategy to build a differentiated culture of improvement.
• Ensure alignment to governance and compliance requirements.
• Drive effective and efficient service or product delivery.
• Optimise productivity of the function by growing the maturity of processes and supporting technologies year on year. Realise improved business delivery.
• Foster and enable innovation, increasing the value add of the function. Identify innovative trends that could enhance the value-add of the function.
• Ensure decisions are made in the best interest of the business.
• Ensure commercial soundness and relevance through end to end financial management of the functional unit.
• Leverage opportunities to create a competitive and commerically successful function.
• Establish and drive the business strategy of the function.
• Maximise exposure to new trends and build competitiveness in the market.
• Ensure projects results are delivered by ensuring client IT spend is optimised across the services portfolio and managed for added value.
• Ensure portfolio of services or projects are configured to drive priority delivery.
• Translate Nedbank strategy into a customised sub-function strategy, ensuring alignemnt and a competitive advantage.
• Oversee the HR strategy and business plan creation process for Group HR to ensure strategy planning cycles for the bank are met.
• Ensure relevant documentation is created to operationalise Group HR strategy and ensure business plan is within the context of the bank's strategic framework.
• Provide support to Group HR Exco to substantiate Group HR strategy and business plans.
• Provide appropriate leadership, guidance, development and coaching to the team to achieve business objectives.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

• Professional Qualifications/Honour’s Degree

Preferred Qualification

• Honours Degree or equivalent

Essential Certifications

• Formal certification from relevant professional bodies

Minimum Experience Level

• 4-8 years Executive Management 10-15 years Business Management