Careers in Banking – Manager Capacity and Asset Management at Stanbic Bank

Organisation: Stanbic Bank
Duty
Station:
  Kampala, Uganda
Job
ID:
10619
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 Capacity and Asset Management
will support Stanbic Bank by providing support in systems development, business
analysis, architecture, project management, data warehousing, infrastructure,
maintenance and production.  The incumbent
will implement and communicate policies, processes and procedures of IT
infrastructure software as well as ensuring compliance thereof. The incumbent will
minimise software compliance risk on an ongoing basis. The job holder will actively
facilitate the remediation process with Line of Business /Shared Services to
minimise any non-compliance status. Manager Capacity and Asset Management will
assign licenses to owners and users internally. He /she will also establish
procedures to manage requests, authorisations, and acquisitions, loading and
reloading through to the retirement of each software asset.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
 
  • Responsible
    to conduct quarterly internal compliance monitoring on all major software
    accounts.
  • Carry
    out validation of audit findings.
  • Ensure
    that all software non-compliance risks and exposures have been discussed
    with the relevant stakeholder.
  • Actively
    facilitate the remediation process with the Line of Business to minimise
    any non-compliance.
  • Building
    effective and collaborative working practices and relationships with
    stakeholders.
  • Communicate
    and enforce GTI Infrastructure Software policies, processes and procedures
    for management of the Software lifecycle.
  • Monitor
    and report on software compliance.
  • Responsible
    to maintain up-to-date, accurate and auditable software asset information.
  • Research
    industry best practices and compare against organisation’s practices in
    order to establish and implement agreed benchmarks for managing software
    assets.
  • Offer
    an advisory role during contract negotiations.
  • Provide
    an advisory role for all new software requirements.
  • Actively
    monitor and report on value realisation on all software contracts.
  • Optimise
    the Bank’s investment in software licenses through usage metering and
    license re-harvesting.
  • Offer
    support to business in terms of effectively gathering and communicating
    software requirements to the relevant parties.
  • Provide
    input to budget cycles.
  • Responsible
    for logging query on the Incident Management system and post resolution
    providing updates to user
  • Responsible
    for determining the licensing requirement for the software requests
  • Responsible
    for compiling a list of users whose software needs to be un-installed
  • Responsible
    for the generation of a remediation plan
  • Responsible
    for the drafting of communications for software un-installs
  • Assesses
    any impact of capacity breaches on SLAs
  • Ensure
    the country, location or region operates to minimum Hardware Asset
    Management standards per the Framework
  • Accountable
    for ensuring valid IT Hardware asset baseline for financial recovery model
    and asset register input for business
  • Ensure
    the fixed asset register (FAR) is accurate and reflects the IT Hardware
    assets in the field per user and business unit.
  • Accountable
    for analysing, projecting and soliciting agreements on Lines of Business
    technology refresh cycles / initiatives for IT Hardware
  • Accountable
    for generating and providing performance metrics on Hardware technology
    base in use.
  • Responsible
    for identifying and reporting Asset Management risks and issues and
    ensuring that such issues are resolved and reported to Risk management
  • Responsible
    for the approval and enhancement of the process of destruction of hard
    drives.
  • Accountable  for the Reverse Logistics process and
    ensure policies are implemented, tracked and reported, including data
    storage destruction
  • Establish,
    communicate and enforce GTSS Software policies, processes and procedures
    for management of the Software lifecycle.
  • Oversee
    the ongoing and long-term management of software within the organisation.
  • Accountable
    for the reporting on software compliance risks.
  • Ensure
    that software asset information is up-to-date, accurate and auditable on a
    central database.
  • Apply
    appropriate industry best practices to enable optimal software asset
    management.
  • Represent
    the lines of Business’ interests, from a Software and Asset Management
    perspective, during contract negotiations.
  • Accountable
    for the monitoring and reporting on value realisation of major software
    contracts.
  • Accountable
    for the tracking and reporting of revenue savings achieved through
    software optimisation activities.
  • Serve
    as the central point of contact for software compliance audits.
  • Accountable
    to identify and track metrics, critical success factors and key
    performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Building
    effective and collaborative working practices
  • Provide
    an advisory role with Vendor Management and outsourced parties.
Key Performance Indicators:
  • Ensures
    that adequate capacity is available to deliver infrastructure services to
    agreed service levels
  • Provides
    annual capacity plan, which is reviewed and amended through the year
  • Ensures
    that infrastructure services and underlying resources are adequately
    monitored to detect capacity and performance issues
  • Applies
    analytic techniques to support;
    • The Capacity Planning Process.
    • Optimisation of Capacity Utilisation across the environment.
  • Provides
    meaningful capacity utilization/trending reports for the purposes of
    operational and service planning
  • Identifies
    and drives implementation of capacity optimization opportunities
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:  
  • The
    applicant should preferably hold a University graduate with a degree /
    diploma in Business, IT or a related subject
  • At
    least two to three years’ experience in a related field
  • Process
    management skills
  • Working
    knowledge of ITIL processes including change, incident and problem
    management.
  • Knowledge
    of standard business processes including work prioritization, best
    practices.
  • Detailed
    knowledge of the ISO 27002 Standard.
  • Knowledge
    of domestic and international banking industry
  • Comprehensive
    knowledge of the Bank’s business, products, key clients, business strategy
    and strategic issues
  • Detailed
    working knowledge of regulatory requirements of home markets
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:
19
th June, 2015
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