Kobus Potgieter, Senior Business and IT Consultant

Kobus Potgieter

Senior Business and IT Consultant

Churchill

Lieu
Afrique du Sud - Cape Town
Éducation
Master, MBA Business Administration
Expérience
14 years, 8 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :14 years, 8 Mois

Senior Business and IT Consultant à Churchill
  • Afrique du Sud - Cape Town
  • Je travaille ici depuis juillet 2020

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.

CIO à Lieben Group
  • Afrique du Sud
  • juin 2018 à juin 2020

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).

Head of Busienss Systems Development à Capfin
  • Afrique du Sud - Cape Town
  • octobre 2015 à juin 2017

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 à Visa
  • Afrique du Sud - Cape Town
  • avril 2013 à juillet 2015

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.

Service Delivery Executive à GijimaAst
  • Afrique du Sud - Johannesburg
  • août 2008 à mars 2013

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.

Éducation

Master, MBA Business Administration
  • à University of the North West
  • avril 2008

Specialties & Skills

People Management
Organizational Change
ICT Governance
IT Strategy
Leadership
Management
Leadership
Operational excellence
Communication
Building dynamic teams
Digitization
ICT Governance
Best Practice Frameworks

Langues

Afrikaans
Langue Maternelle
Anglais
Expert

Formation et Diplômes

Agile (SDLC) (Formation)
Institut de formation:
DVT
Date de la formation:
May 2016
COBIT (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
May 2010
ITIL (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
May 2010

Loisirs

  • Krav mega
  • Rugby
  • Cycling
  • Squash
  • Reading
  • Outdoors