Job Requisition Details and Talent Acquisition Contact
REQ ID: 142728 - Michelle Thabethe
Location: Sandton
Cluster: Group Finance - Group Business Services
Closing date: 6 November 2025
Job Family
Risk Audit and Compliance
Career Stream
Operational Risk
Leadership Pipeline
Manage Self: Professional
Job Purpose
To lead cluster data transformation initiatives that align with strategic business goals regulatory requirements and digital innovation. This role drives the modernization of data practices governance and infrastructure to enable trusted decision-making operational efficiency and compliance.
Job Responsibilities
- Strategic Leadership: Define and execute the data transformation roadmap across clusters integrating with platforms like S4 HANA Ab-Initio and Data Warehouses
- Governance & Compliance: Establish and automate data governance frameworks decision trees and checklists to reduce manual effort and ensure regulatory alignment (e.g. ISO 31000 Basel principles)
- Operational Oversight: Manage data lifecycle stagesplanning development implementation operation maintenance and retirementto mitigate financial and operational risks.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Serve as a trusted advisor to business units influencing data management practices and facilitating cross-functional collaboration
- Innovation Enablement: Champion real-time analytics metadata management and authoritative data sets to support harmonization and interoperability.
- Team Development: Mentor data professionals and foster a culture of continuous learning agility and ethical data management
Minimum Experience Level
- Degree in Information Systems Data Science or related field (NQF 7)
- Data leadership roles
- Experience with SAP ETL cloud platforms and data virtualization tools
- Experience with Data management frameworks
Preferred Qualification
- Post-Graduate Degree in Information Systems Data Science or related field (NQF 8 or higher)
Type of Exposure
- 10 years in data leadership roles preferably in financial services
- Experience and certification with SAP ETL cloud platforms and data virtualization tools
- Experience and certification with Data management and AI/ML frameworks
Technical / Professional Knowledge
- Financial Services Acumen
- Data management frameworks
- AI/ML frameworks
- Research methodology
Behavioural Competencies
- Governance Risk and Controls
- Organisational behaviour theory
- Stakeholder management
- Strategic planning
- Talent management
- Business Transformation
- Building Partnerships
- Communication
Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at
Required Experience:
Manager
Job Requisition Details and Talent Acquisition Contact REQ ID: 142728 - Michelle ThabetheLocation: SandtonCluster: Group Finance - Group Business ServicesClosing date: 6 November 2025Job Family Risk Audit and ComplianceCareer Stream Operational RiskLeadership Pipeline Manage Self: ProfessionalJob Pu...
Job Requisition Details and Talent Acquisition Contact
REQ ID: 142728 - Michelle Thabethe
Location: Sandton
Cluster: Group Finance - Group Business Services
Closing date: 6 November 2025
Job Family
Risk Audit and Compliance
Career Stream
Operational Risk
Leadership Pipeline
Manage Self: Professional
Job Purpose
To lead cluster data transformation initiatives that align with strategic business goals regulatory requirements and digital innovation. This role drives the modernization of data practices governance and infrastructure to enable trusted decision-making operational efficiency and compliance.
Job Responsibilities
- Strategic Leadership: Define and execute the data transformation roadmap across clusters integrating with platforms like S4 HANA Ab-Initio and Data Warehouses
- Governance & Compliance: Establish and automate data governance frameworks decision trees and checklists to reduce manual effort and ensure regulatory alignment (e.g. ISO 31000 Basel principles)
- Operational Oversight: Manage data lifecycle stagesplanning development implementation operation maintenance and retirementto mitigate financial and operational risks.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Serve as a trusted advisor to business units influencing data management practices and facilitating cross-functional collaboration
- Innovation Enablement: Champion real-time analytics metadata management and authoritative data sets to support harmonization and interoperability.
- Team Development: Mentor data professionals and foster a culture of continuous learning agility and ethical data management
Minimum Experience Level
- Degree in Information Systems Data Science or related field (NQF 7)
- Data leadership roles
- Experience with SAP ETL cloud platforms and data virtualization tools
- Experience with Data management frameworks
Preferred Qualification
- Post-Graduate Degree in Information Systems Data Science or related field (NQF 8 or higher)
Type of Exposure
- 10 years in data leadership roles preferably in financial services
- Experience and certification with SAP ETL cloud platforms and data virtualization tools
- Experience and certification with Data management and AI/ML frameworks
Technical / Professional Knowledge
- Financial Services Acumen
- Data management frameworks
- AI/ML frameworks
- Research methodology
Behavioural Competencies
- Governance Risk and Controls
- Organisational behaviour theory
- Stakeholder management
- Strategic planning
- Talent management
- Business Transformation
- Building Partnerships
- Communication
Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at
Required Experience:
Manager
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