Senior Business and IT Consultant
Churchill
Total years of experience :14 years, 8 Months
Partnering with leading Corporates and SMEs in South Africa, to optimize their Business & Technology capabilities. Focusing on Business and Technology strategy, improving Operational Efficiency, IT Governance, Controls & Capability Maturity, and Digitization strategies.
Formulate and implement IT strategy in line with business strategy. Responsible for all the Enterprise IT functions with a focus on the engineering and IT support teams (DevOps). Implement IT governance. Improve IT Capability maturity. Ensure operational excellence. Financial management. Technology development and innovation. Formulation of a digital strategy. Implementation of best practices (ITIL/COBIT/Agile/DevOps).
Accountable for the strategic, tactical, and operational functions of the engineering team (55 engineers & 3 managers). Responsible for business software solutions through the SDLC (Agile) to our SA, UK & Aus business partners. Establishing a multinational delivery and support functionality within the organization (DevOps). Assist the organization with the business strategy and formulate/align technology strategy to support the business strategy.
Senior Director of Professional Services Emerging Markets Digital for the AP/CEMEA region. Formulate and align technology strategy & Ops with organizational and regional strategies. Optimize the operating model and drive effectiveness across all functional areas. Delivering Mobile Financial Solutions (DevOps) to Financial Institutions and MNO's globally, focusing on emerging markets.
Absa/Barclays account (Managed a team of 600 people & 22 Managers, 45 000 end users, +200 000 devices).
Responsible for functional areas such as HR, Legal, Finance, PMO and Ops. Accountable for EUC Technology Service Delivery and strategy within the outsource contract between Absa/Barclays and GijimaAst. Optimizing resources, - delivery model and services, while ensuring service excellence and cost effectiveness. Create a world class service delivery team and implement best practice frameworks (ITIL, COBIT) with service excellence as the foundation. Formulating and implementing account and functional strategies. Implement bleeding edge technologies and service models.