Lead, Intelligent Automation

Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector’s most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We’re passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.

To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of business processes through the application of continuous improvement methodologies & intelligent automation across the group.

Key responsibilities

• Drive the development and implementation of automation strategies, standards, processes, best practices and roadmaps.
• Lead a team of business analysts, RPA Developers and other support roles who are responsible for building and maintaining Intelligent Automation solutions and platforms.
• Lead reviews of business processes, analysing requirements and developing optimization strategies, uncovering opportunities for automations.
• Identifies and defines tactical operational performance metrics geared towards meeting business objectives by analysing the existing gaps.
• Oversee the end-to-end Intelligent Automation project lifecycle from ideation to deployment.
• Write project scopes and functional specifications, estimate project costs, risks and assumptions.

• University Degree 
• Certification(s) in Automation Tools and Technologies in RPA/BPA space.
• Certification(s) in either Business Analysis or Project Management (Anyone of PMP, Agile Project Management, PRINCE 2 Agile, CBAP etc.) is a plus.
• Proficiency in UiPath for automation and workflow development.

Behavioural Competencies

• Team Working
• Documenting Facts
• Meeting Timescales
• Generating Ideas

Technical Competencies

• Strategy and Planning
• Process Analysis & Redesign
• Project Management

Leadership Competencies

• Customer and Client Focused Innovation
• Seeking Deeper Understanding