Stanbic IBTC Career Opportunities 2015

Stanbic IBTC Holdings is a member of Standard Bank Group which is Africa’s largest banking group ranked by assets and earnings and has been in business for more than 150 years. It is a global Bank with African roots and has extensive operations in 19 African countries including South Africa and 12 countries outside Africa including key financial centers like Europe, United States and Asia making us one of the biggest banking networks in the continent. It operates in Nigeria as Stanbic IBTC Bank; a subsidiary of Stanbic IBTC Holdings.

HEAD – PRODUCTION ASSURANCE (IT)

POSITION DESCRIPTION
Act as the integral point of contact in IT for business and the service providers. The purpose is to build a long term partnership between IT and business through consistent Infrastructure and Application service delivery excellence, minimize risk and to maximise the scope of service provision.

Establish an accurate level of demand from the business units for IT services and match to available solutions and services. Represent IT in annual planning and demand forecast reviews. Perform Annual planning and demand forecast reviews.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Ensures adherence to defined IT policies
Liaises with the outsourcing service provider/vendors to ensure that outsourced functions are carried out according to pre-agreed service level agreements
Ensures that the company’s IT strategies and policies are being implemented
Ensure effective 24×7 hourly monitoring of all services (including one off developments like RCCG website, CIPG, and other critical systems such as BankOne)
Implement auto-monitoring solution for all critical services
Convert existing Command Center to a high quality monitoring center with full screen wall for more efficient monitoring
Manage all production issues to resolution, leveraging our 3rd party vendors where necessary
Liaise more closely with Group ASD. Ensure increased visibility to Nigeria customer impacting outages or service challenges. Log on team track where necessary.
Ensure smooth working relationship between country Production Assurance and GTO Production Assurance team
Ensure that all changes go through a rigorous CAB process that confirms testing results, user validation and required sign-offs
Drive thorough root cause analysis for all production issues and service outages
Ensure proper coverage for branch and campus support
Provide Weekly reports on exceptions in the network (ATMs or data links down for extensive periods, severe power outages)
Provide Weekly availability reports. Note exceptions
Benchmark service levels against other banks with a view to improving our services. Leverage ITIL expertise.
Solicit regular feedback from Business and branches via weekly Service Fora and regular calls, on IT performance and areas of improvement
Be established as the go-to person for all IT production and service-related concerns
Ensure that UBS team is kept a— of all information needed to manage customers efficiently on the front lines. This includes knowledge of outages, recurring service issues, known system problems, etc
Develop a proactive approach to IT support in all our Branches.
Manage UBS team to carry out first level support on IT related issues in all the branches within the regions, Integrated Processing Centre (IPC) and Campuses
Co-ordinate the upgrade/Downgrade and Configuration of Internet Explorer for Finacle on users’ systems.
Direct the repair/installation and configuration of Finacle client applications on desktops and notebook PCs.
Prudent management of Resources to carry out first level support on users’ systems (workstations, scanners, printers, UPS, Inverters and other peripherals).
Ensure first level support on applications (Ms Operating system, MS Office suite, Finacle and Intranet applications) and online service availability during operational hours.
Engage formally with BUs and branch principal Officers (BMs, RMs, ZOMs, ROMs, etc.)
Conduct training/workshop for UBS team & ATM Custodians/BILOs respectively, minimum twice yearly
Ensure that all users’ incidents/requests are logged in Remedy Application and responded to promptly
Enforce compliance on keeping and maintaining log of activities in Server/Communication room in branches.
Branch Rollout – Deployment of IT infrastructure (Link, LAN, Systems, Inverter/UPS power & Peripherals) for new branches
Deployment of IT infrastructure (Link, LAN, Systems, Inverter/UPS power & Peripherals) for ATMs and to branches when BUs relocate
Engage UBS team to ensure enterprise security compliance with respect to Patch and Antivirus Coverage, Patch and Antivirus Compliance, In-Active Users & Privilege Identities on systems bank-wide
Monitor the performance of the Branch IT infrastructure in terms of QoS, systems response time, etc.
Maintain clear and constant communication with the PBB IT Head regarding IT issues in UBSR team.
Support new project deployment such as upgrade of Operating Systems and other applications, Inverter, UPS, etc.

Key performance measures
Customer satisfaction levels
Number of customer complaints
Compliance level  to pre-agreed SLAs and OLAs
Number and value of sanctions received as a result of non-compliance to IT policies
Cycle time to resolve issues assigned by the Helpdesk
Cycle time in the resolution of incident tracked on Remedy/Team track
Internal customer satisfaction level with IT support
Number and value of sanctions received as a result of incorrect reports
Zero Audit exceptions
Other KPIs identified by the Group Head,  Information Technology

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