Technical Lead: Java

Introduction Through our client-facing brands Momentum Group, with Multiply (wellness and rewards programme), and our other specialist brands, including Guardrisk and Eris Property Group, the group enables business and people from all walks of life to achieve their financial goals and life aspirations. We help people grow their savings, protect what matters to them and invest for the future. We help companies and organisations care for and reward their employees and members.

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Role Purpose Manage the relationship and communication between the IT, BI and Finance teams to translate financial business requirements into an understandable format for the specialist IT and BI teams. This interaction will include application/product development including trouble shooting for financial system errors/failures and reconciliation and balancing issues, To work with various stakeholders and end users to ensure that they have relevant tools and technologies, whilst planning and configuring systems in order to develop solutions that will achieve IT objectives and deliverables.

Requirements Qualification:

• Grade 12 / Matric (Essential)

• Relevant Qualification (Essential)

Experience:

• At least 3 - 5 years experience as a Financial Manager/Management Accountant. (Essential)

• At least 5 - 7 years experience in IT with 2 - 3 years management experience Information and communication technology (ICT) operations experience. (Essential)

• Experience of managing projects and product design road map. (Essential)

• Working experience using agile principles and methodologies. (Desirable)

• Exposure to diverse IT solution implementation in a variety of environments. (Desirable)

Duties & Responsibilities PROCESS

• Develop comprehensive project plans outlining scope, timelines, resource requirements and deliverables.

• Implement and monitor quality assurance processes to ensure the delivery of high-quality IT solutions.

• Follow quality service standards and comply with procedures, rules, and regulations.

• Maintain reports, records, and documentation to reflect department activities.

• Coordinate and lead annual review meetings with relevant internal and external stakeholders.

• Ensure that relevant stakeholders adhere to IT policies and procedures established within the function. .

• Monitoring and managing desktop support, IT services desk, and VIP support functions to ensure optimal service.

• Maintaining high performance levels for service-related processes, and implementing improvement activities, as required.

• Ensuring that systems, procedures, and methodologies are in place to support outstanding service delivery.

CLIENT

• Maintain contact with client at a senior level, focusing on the strategic nature of the relationship.

• Make recommendations to improve client service and fair treatment of clients within area of responsibility.

• Provide authoritative, expertise and advice to clients and stakeholders.

• Build and maintain relationships with clients and internal and external stakeholders.

• Contribute to the process of negotiating objective and realistic service level agreements, monitor appropriateness and recommend adjustments.

• Define service practices which builds rewarding relationships, encourages innovation and allows others to provide exceptional client service.

PEOPLE

• Create a positive work climate and culture to energise employees, give meaning to work, minimisework disruption and maximise employee productivity.

• Demonstrate exemplary leadership behaviour, through personal involvement, commitment and dedication in support of organisational values.

• Select and recruit suitably qualified talent in line with Employment Equity principles and Momentum Metropolitan values.Ensure team(s) maintain focus on quality and continuous delivery.

• Enable a learning and growth culture whereby information regarding successes, issues, trends and ideas are actively shared between team members.

FINANCE

• Contribute to the development of area specific budgets to minimise expenditure, in alignment with operational plans.

• Identify solutions to enhance cost effectiveness and increase operational efficiency.

• Implement and provide input into governance processes, systems and legislation within area of specialisation.

• Escalate unresolved policy and governance compliance issues via appropriate channels for investigation and resolution purposes.

• Provide input into the risk identification processes development and communicate recommendations in the appropriate forum.

PROCESS

• Drive sustainable transformation of the financial business processes through process redesign, cross-functional collaboration, and strategic use of automation.

• Manage finance process and system change due to digitization of client software to services addressing the impact of regulatory, statutory, and financial reporting requirements, including Revenue Recognition redesigning cost, allocation, and related reporting processes and evolving corporate performance management by aligning to economics of SaaS, IaaS, and other digital business models.

• Sourcing, invoicing, expenses, supplier management, and payments, and connect seamlessly to third-party applications and service providers.

• Run debit orders to collect membership fees, reconciliation, rewards payments to members.

• Design and support the development of application and system process plans and socialise with the relevant teams and stakeholders.

• To ensure that internal systems and applications supports the enhancement of the overall customer journey which forms part of the greater value proposition.

• Translate the strategy into a working roadmap and socialise the application platforms to relevant stakeholders to ensure alignment on business intent.

• Review and analyse the application platform roadmap to support effective prioritisation of features within the appropriate backlogs. Create appropriate operational workflows to support the proposition in order to meet business needs.

• Be a knowledge leader with regards to the product, keeping abreast with market, practices and client trends.

• Monitor the performance of the application platforms (apps) including financial performance, client behaviour and usage across the various features and channels, to ensure that these meet business requirements.

• Develop and drive plans to close any performance gaps and mitigate risks as they occur to minimise business impact.

• Present to relevant stakeholders on decisions that impact on product strategy, design, pricing, and the income or costs associated with the delivery of the product.

• Improving operational processes and supports critical business strategies by managing the development, implementation, and maintenance of applications systems.

Competencies

• Examining Information: Analyses and processes information asks probing questions strives to find solutions to problems.

• Documenting Facts: Writes fluently when documenting facts understands arguments logically focuses on finding facts.

• Interpreting Data: Interprets data rationally by quantifying issues applies technology as a means to evaluating data evaluates information objectively.

• Adopting Practical Approaches: Applies practical skills when investigating issues prefers to learn by doing is practically minded and applies common sense.

• Exploring Possibilities: Is conceptual when developing ideas applies theories to problem solving prefers to learn by thinking and identifying underlying principles.

• Articulating Information: Is articulate in giving presentations is eloquent and explains things well projects social confidence when artic