Industry Payments & Portfolio Head

Standard Bank Group; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Standard Bank Group is seeking an enterprise leader to drive the South Africa payments franchise, guiding strategy across rails, platforms, and regulatory engagement. You will align investment and execution with business priorities and ensure compliant, scalable payment solutions for customers and partners.

The role requires deep experience in payments, cross-border flows, and regulatory change, capable of orchestrating complex programs across technology, operations, and risk teams to deliver

Qualifications

• Broad knowledge of payments products and rails across SA market.
• Experience with regulatory engagement and regulatory change in payments.

Responsibilities

• Provide enterprise leadership of the SA payments franchise across business units.
• Align investment and execution with commercial priorities and change.
• Represent SBSA payments view at regulatory and industry interactions.

Skills

Expertise development

Strategy development

People leadership

Stakeholder management

Decision making

Insights delivery

Customer understanding

Regulatory knowledge

Knowledge management

Strategic planning

Education

Masters Degree

Post Graduate Degree in Business Commerce

Post Graduate Degree in Finance and Accounting

Job description

• Business Segment: Personal & Private Banking

Company Description

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.

Job Description

To provide enterprise leadership of the South Africa payments franchise and industry interaction across business units, setting a progressive, forward-looking country agenda across commercial priorities, customer experience, payment types and rails, platforms, operations and data. Exercise clear country-level mandate to align investment and execution, anticipate market and technology shifts and drive integrated growth outcomes, while enabling effective regulatory advocacy, compliance and change.Build and represent an SBSA payments view at regulatory and industry interactions.

Qualifications

Type of Qualification: Masters Degree
Field of Study: Business Commerce
Type of Qualification: Post Graduate Degree
Field of Study: Business Commerce
Type of Qualification: Post Graduate Degree
Field of Study: Finance and Accounting
Experience Required
Products
Personal and Private Banking
5-7 years
Broad knowledge of foreign exchange and cross-border payments, cards, acquiring, cash, collections, payment rails, payment platforms and payments technology.
5-7 years
Essential knowledge and practical experience of payments regulation, regulatory engagement, compliance obligations and regulatory change in the South African payments environment.
8-10 years
Proven track record of orchestrating complex execution across multiple business units, payment products, technology, operations, risk and control functions to deliver integrated outcomes.
More than 10 years
Significant senior or executive-level experience in payments within a large financial services institution. The incumbent must be an experienced transactional banking or payments professional with substantial leadership exposure across the payments value chain.

• Developing Expertise
• Developing Strategies
• Directing People
• Empowering Individuals
• Examining Information
• Exploring Possibilities
• Interacting with People
• Making Decisions
• Providing Insights
• Taking Action
• Customer Understanding (Business Banking)
• Financial Industry Regulatory Framework
• Knowledge Management Systems
• Stakeholder Management
• Strategic Planning and Reporting