Manager, Bank Digitization Employment Opportunity – Stanbic Bank

Job Title:           Manager, Bank Digitization
Organisation: Stanbic Bank
Job ID: 23802
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
About Us:
Stanbic Bank Uganda Limited is a subsidiary of Stanbic Africa Holdings
Limited which is in turn owned by Standard Bank Group Limited (“the Group”),
Africa’s leading banking and financial services group. The Standard Bank Group
is the leading banking group focused on emerging markets. It is the largest
African banking group ranked by assets and earnings. Stanbic Bank Uganda
Limited is the largest bank in Uganda by assets and market capitalization. It
offers a full range of banking services through two business units; Personal
and Business Banking (PBB), and Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB).
Job Summary: The Manager,
Bank Digitization will deliver on the Bank’s strategic capability of digital
banking automated core processes and accelerate the delivery of the Segment
strategies through digital banking by ensuring all policies, processes
procedures are aligned and customer centric.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:  
Business Delivery and Operational Effectiveness:
  • Accountable to evaluate, design, build,
    implement and maintain best in class bank processes that enhance the
    customer experience leading to achievement of our desired customer
    experience, in partnership with RoA centre.
  • Identify opportunities to harness
    technology to deliver increased traffic to the alternate banking channels
    and reduce foot traffic to the banking halls.
  • Leads centres of expertise, designs and
    documents customer and operational workflow; and supporting end-to-end
    processes that are synergistic and operate in an integrated fashion, based
    on a comprehensive understanding of the work and work requirements in
    order to optimize the PBB product workflow.
  • Assess operational effectiveness
    requirements across all distribution channels, directing the
    identification of change requirements and the design and development of
    improved processes and procedures to support the desired customer and
    employee experience across channels, support operational stability and
    integrity and meet all audit requirements.
  • Assess existing process tools against
    changing business needs; in order to identify gaps and act as the business
    approval point for day-to-day process issues and clarify operating model
    and accountabilities with business heads.
  • Drive the fundamental reengineering of our
    processes and business value chain
  • The incumbent will support the
    development, documentation and monitor the project plans in the digital
    banking segment. The incumbent will drive the change management process in
    the department
  • Analyses needs and challenges of diverse
    sales, service and operational groups to ensure that focus is targeted on
    those activities that drive the most fundamental change and that align to
    key strategic and tactical changes led by other business units.
  • Engage impacted stakeholders and direct
    the development of decision-making protocols and design principles to
    ensure goals of multiple stakeholders are satisfied for processes which
    cross functional business units. Acts as a subject-matter expert regarding
    product, customer and operational workflow/process strategies to business
    units.
  • Act as member of PMO leadership team and
    support continuous improvement of execution processes
  • Measure Process optimizations
  • Improvement in turn -around time for key
    business processes
  • Automation of manual processes
  • Turn- around time for process and system
    roll out.
  • Turn – around time on new process and
    system adoption
  • Achievement of critical programme
    milestones for Digital Channel Transformation flagship
Change Management and Innovation:
  • The jobholder identifies potential
    opportunities for the bank’s digital channels.
  • Anticipates and responds appropriately to
    new demands, priorities, challenges, or obstacles that impact digital
    channels.
  • Defines key business challenges and models
    digital, and electronic, solutions.
  • Leads design thinking and ensures success
    of product innovation and digital initiatives based on a customer-centric
    approach to design (from concept to actual working application for both
    staff and external customers).
  • Design, develop and implement a change
    management strategy and framework for digital banking
  • Accountable to develop strategies to
    holistically simplify work activities across branch distribution, defining
    and designing standardized processes by product, channel and by touch
    point. Provide overall strategic direction and leadership regarding
    Strategic business transformations in Digital Banking
  • Ensures user-centric design approaches are
    adopted throughout the organisation to ensure customer led design is
    evident and becomes part of the organisation’s DNA. (This refers to
    broader than digital; it is enterprise adoption of customer-centric design
    as opposed to applying it to digital channels only.)
  • Oversees the digital ecosystem and
    initiatives to ensure efficient and effective planning, design and build
    of digital platforms and assets.
  • Drives the collaboration with
    cross-functional teams to plan, design and build successful digital
    solutions
People Management:
  • Provides leadership and sets appropriate
    context and establish prescribed limits for direct reports
  • Lead the establishment of a two-way
    working relationship with direct reports and other matrix reports to
    solicit their views on the working environment, potential changes
    affecting their work, continuous improvement opportunities, and revisions
    to the plan.
  • Responsible for establishing and
    optimizing team integration by articulating the linkages between the
    accountabilities and authorities of different roles across the business.
  • Accountable for ensuring the effective
    implementation of Bank initiatives and programs through the establishment
    of appropriate context and setting of direction for direct reports and
    matrix reports by providing relevant information, establishing goals, and
    setting limits with the context and prescribed limits of the business
    head.
  • Responsible for inspiring, motivating,
    leading and managing the team.
  • Responsible for the recruitment,
    development and retention of relevant skills in order to meet the business
    needs.
  • Ensures the effective selection of staff
    by matching the skills and competencies to the requirements of the job.
  • Ensures skills assessments and
    competency-based training takes place as and when required.
  • Builds organisational capabilities through
    evaluating likely future requirements and ensuring that individuals are
    provided with the best possible development opportunities in line with
    these.
  • Creates an environment in which learning
    and development are emphasised and valued.
  • Takes personal responsibility for coaching
    and mentoring others.
  • Promotes a culture where the values of the
    Bank are seen to be ‘alive
  • Ensures the implementation of the
    leadership promise and employee engagement programme.
  • Develops and maintains an open
    communication channel with direct reports and supports staff to foster
    greater co-operation and teamwork.
  • Monitors and manages the performance and
    development of staff within the area. This includes regular one-on-one
    feedback sessions, conducting mid-year and final performance appraisals,
    as well as the moderation and relative distribution of all appraisals for
    the team.
  • Ensures staff are appropriately and
    consistently rewarded and recognised for their achievements and outputs.
  • Ensures that disciplinary action and
    grievances are addressed and aligned to the Standard Bank policies and
    procedures.
Documentation, Training and Support:
  • Document and maintain process documents up
    to date by incorporating methods, techniques, notations, standards and
    best practices derived from the business process architecture team
  • Act as a process subject matter expert and
    prepare documentations, such as procedural and training manuals by
    educating business users responsible for managing and operating business
    processes. Provide content for the L&D team to design learning
    material and curriculum in the digital channels
  • Monitoring, measuring and providing
    feedback on process performance. The job holder will develop measurement
    criteria and tools for digital banking processes; measure and report to
    business on process performance and offer recommendations for process
    improvement
  • Ensuring full utilization of new processes
Compliance:
  • Actively contribute to the ongoing
    development and maintenance of the Control Framework, establishing
    standards and controls and maintaining product governance and policies to
    ensure regulatory requirements are met and to optimize and sustain the
    distribution channel operations and achieve business objectives.
  • Accountable to develop tools and
    performance metrics to identify areas of non-compliance and work with internal
    partners to rectify the gaps in order to deliver a consistent customer and
    employee experience
  • Manage all compliance processes including
    Institutional requirements, statutory requirements, regulatory
    requirements) and reporting.
  • Report non-compliance and any process
    deviations from the vendor SLAs
  • Interacting with internal and external
    bodies such as Risk management, Internal Audit, Legal Services regulations
    and other industry bodies in order to maintain a sound compliance and risk
    free environment in the digital banking space.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
  • The applicant for the Stanbic Bank
    Manager, Bank Digitization career opportunity should hold a first Degree
    in Business Commerce / IT and Computer Sciences / Project Management
  • At least five to seven years’ experience
    in Business
  • Previous experience in Digital Banking
  • Broad knowledge and understanding of cross
    functional business initiatives and how they interact, exposure to process
    redesign methods; understanding pf process modelling, analysis and
    simulation tools, understanding of project management and change
    management.
  • Expertise in using system analysis methods
    to break apart and reconfigure process stages;
  • Prior exposure and experience in
    developing business requirements;
  • Previous experience in developing
    instructional and procedural documentation and presentations
How to Apply:
All candidates who wish to join the one of Africa’s biggest Banking
Groups, Standard Bank in the aforementioned capacity are encouraged to Apply
Online by visiting Link below.
Deadline: 26th May 2017
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