Head of Fintech Platforms

Shoprite Group of Companies; Wes-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Shoprite Group of Companies seeks a strategic leader to steer the Fintech Platforms portfolio, aligning Payments, Banking, MMA and MMP with the group’s financial-services roadmap. You will translate direction into a multi-year strategy and ensure integrated value delivery with governance and risk controls.

The role requires collaboration across senior business, technology, risk and partner communities, delivering sustained performance within delegated authority.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-year portfolio strategy for Fintech Platforms across Payments, Banking, MMA, MMP and new capabilities.
• Establish governance, investment roadmap and operating agenda balancing value, regulatory obligations and risk.
• Drive cross-functional decision-making and value realization across senior business, risk, technology and partners.

Job description

Lead the strategic alignment, integration, governance, growth and sustained performance of the Fintech Platforms portfolio across Payments, Banking, Money Market Account (MMA), Money Market Payments (MMP) and future financial-services capabilities. Translate Group, Financial Services and S-Tech direction into an integrated multi-year portfolio strategy, investment roadmap and operating agenda that balances customer value, commercial outcomes, regulatory obligations, risk, resilience and delivery feasibility.

Integrate and optimise the portfolio as an end-to-end financial-services value chain, including consolidating MMA and MMP into a unified Money Market proposition and operating model aligned with Banking, Payments and the broader financial-services ecosystem. Establish the governance, decision rights and cross-functional alignment required to realise value across the combined portfolio.

Own the Fintech domain's business, product, portfolio, investment and strategic outcomes within delegated authority, while S-Tech Head: Engineering & Platforms remains accountable for engineering execution, capability, standards, architecture governance and practices. Achieve outcomes through leadership of an integrated portfolio, cross-functional decision-making and influence across senior business, technology, risk and partner communities rather than ownership of enterprise engineering