Job Description

Company Description

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities - plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector's most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We're passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.



To build / configure, test and deploy automated decision solutions for all Personal and Business products across the risk lifecycle for a particular credit stream (e.g., origination, account management or collections - to be customised per jobholder). To provide input into workflow process design, decision tree configuration, champion challenger configuration, testing and implementation. This includes the process design of the end-to-end solution and working closely with appropriate Architectures (e.g., IT, Credit, Business, Data, etc.) to formulate sustainable strategic solutions.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Diploma/Degree in Information Technology/ Computer Science/Business Commerce

Experience Required

• 2-3 Leadership experience
• 3 years experience across the credit lifecycle
• 3-5 years experience in configuration of decision technology software.
• Exposure to financial products.
• Exposure to translating business and functional requirements into technical specifications.
• Experience in managing product lifecycles development and analysis in a financial services environment.
• Exposure to various types of credit configuration software and strategies.

Additional Information

Technical Competencies

• Configuration Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Systems Design
• IT Strategy and planning

Leadership Competency

• Effectively and strategically influences across the organisation, based on previously established credibility and respect, as well as understanding the organisational dynamics, politics and interpersonal context.
• Enables and empowers the team to implement/execute a strategic vision or change for the better. Leads with passion and energy.

Behavioural Competencies

• Completing Tasks - This competency is about completing tasks and projects in a structured manner by employing effective planning and prioritising skills. Once tasks have been planned and priorities have been set, individuals also need to be able to manage the project or task to completion to demonstrate effectiveness.
• Checking Details - This competency is concerned with the careful checking and confirmation of details in a task. Another behaviour associated with the xe2x80x9cChecking Detailsxe2x80x9d competency is being accurate. Being accurate requires individuals to have a strong quality orientation as well as to be thorough and detailed in their approach when completing tasks to avoid making mistakes.
• Examining Information - This competency serves to aid effective problem solving and requires being effective at probing and analysing situations efficiently and accurately. This competency is important because without sufficient analysis, effective solutions become less probable. In addition, poor analysis makes it more likely that individuals become confused and anxious, bored, error prone or overwhelmed by detail, which also impacts negatively on successful problem solving.

Exploring Possibilities - Exploring possibilities is about individuals being effective at displaying behaviours associated with different situations or problems. Individuals are required to look at a problem and define it in an abstract manner. xe2x80x9cUnpackingxe2x80x9d a problem in terms of its underlying principles and basing the problem on sound theory typically allows for deeper insight into the true nature of the problem. This makes the nature of the problem more complete, more meaningful and therefore longer-term sustainable solutions more likely.

Upholding Standards - xe2x80x9cUpholding Standardsxe2x80x9d within the organisation is important for ensuring that high quality products and services are provided as well as for ensuring that trust is created and maintained. Individuals need to focus on developing proper and discreet behaviour and to honour their commitments to be effective at demonstrating this competency.

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