Summary role description:

Hiring for an Onsite Engagement Leader – Banking and Financial Services Business Unit, in Johannesburg, South Africa, for a global Digital Solutions and Systems Integration major

Company description:

Our client is a multibillion-dollar technology consulting and digital solutions powerhouse, helping hundreds of their clients across the globe accelerate and succeed in their digital transformation initiatives. Our client’s Analysts-commended platform ensures maximised business benefits for their customers, on their mobile, social, analytics, IoT and cloud journeys. They have been on a phenomenal growth path over the past several years and have also been consistently winning prestigious awards as an employer of choice. They have a prominent business presence in South Africa and globally, BFS domain is their biggest vertical.

Role details:

• Title / Designation: Engagement Leader – Banking (Associate Director / Director)
• Role type: Individual Contributor
• Reporting Manager: Senior Director – Banking and Financial Services
• Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

Roles and responsibilities:

• Participation in consulting / business development activities (like workshops, seminars, etc.), to increase BFS footprint across the region
• Contribution to BFS solutions efforts (RFX responses, new proposals to clients on cross-sell and upsell opportunities, positioning of point solutions / value-adds / solutions accelerators, POCs and the like. Covering core solutions, automation and innovation)
• Solutions articulation and presentation to client stakeholders
• BFS solutions delivery oversight and related problem-solving and team mentoring
• Ensuring adherence to program / project health parameters (including scope, schedule, budget, risks, financials, stakeholder communications & reporting, governance)
• Initiate, process and close feedback loops – with client, senior team members, contractors, account and sales teams and other key stakeholders

Candidate requirements:

• Experience of 15-20 years, with the bulk of it in BFS, with expertise to consult, solution for and deliver on largescale core banking transformation, driven by latest banking trends and digital / FinTech toolsets and enterprise technologies like Salesforce
• Should have been leading a portfolio of $ 20 million or above in annual revenues, over the latest 4-5 years
• Capability to assess scope and estimate (effort, schedule and cost) for complex programs / projects
• Capability to work in onsite-offshore / remote working model

Selection process:

• Interview by Senior Director – BFS
• Interview by DU Head – BFS & BU Head – BFS
• HR discussions