Job Description

Shape and drive the business strategy and delivery of payment solutions within the organisation’s payments capability, ensuring strong business value, compliance, and customer outcomes. This role defines the payments capability roadmap, builds business cases, and coordinates end-to-end delivery across technology, operations, risk, and compliance. The Solution Strategist acts as the primary business owner for payments solutions, translating market needs, regulatory change, and strategic priorities into actionable, value-adding capabilities.Job Description / Key Responsibilities:

• Payments Strategy & Roadmap: Drive the strategic roadmap for the payments capability, aligning it to business strategy, market trends, customer needs, competitive positioning, and regulatory drivers.
• End-to-End Solution Delivery Oversight: Coordinate the end-to-end implementation of approved payment initiatives, ensuring cross-functional delivery, business readiness, effective change management, and successful outcomes.
• Payments Domain Leadership & Best Practices: Serve as a payments subject matter expert, embedding industry standards and regulatory requirements into solution design and promoting best practice across the enterprise.
• Stakeholder Collaboration & Governance: Build strong stakeholder relationships, lead governance and communication for the payments portfolio, and align stakeholders around successful business outcomes.

Minimum Requirements and Experience:

• Proven Payments Experience: 5–8 years in payments or financial services solution roles, with a strong record of delivering large-scale payment solutions from concept to launch and adoption.
• Deep Payments Domain Knowledge: Strong understanding of end-to-end payment processes and value streams, including clearing, settlement, reconciliation, risk, compliance, and ISO 20022. Scheme-agnostic familiarity with major payment types and networks is essential.
• Strategic and Commercial Acumen: Ability to develop and execute strategy, build compelling business cases, and apply financial and analytical insight to improve payment services.
• Execution & Change Leadership: Experience coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver solutions, with strong understanding of project or Agile delivery, risk mitigation, and business readiness.
• Influence & Communication: Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align senior stakeholders around a shared vision for payments innovation and excellence.

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Important Closing Date Note

Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below.

08/07/26 All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group’s Employment Equity plan. The Bank supports the recruitment and advancement of individuals with disabilities. In order for us to fulfill this purpose, candidates can disclose their disability information on a voluntary basis. The Bank will keep this information confidential unless we are required by law to disclose this information to other parties.