About the position
Employment Type: Fixed-Term Contract (6–12 months)
Role Overview
A specialist financial institution is seeking an experienced Head: Digital Business Transitioning to lead and accelerate its journey toward becoming a digitally enabled, future-ready organisation.
This role is a strategic transformation mandate, focused on designing and driving enterprise-wide digital change rather than operational IT delivery. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive digital business strategy that integrates technology, people, processes and data to improve efficiency, competitiveness and customer experience.
The role is offered on a 6–12 month fixed-term contract.
Key Responsibilities Digital Strategy & Transformation Leadership
- Diagnose the organisation’s market position, business value chain and digital maturity.
- Develop a clear digital business vision, blueprint and future-state architecture.
- Translate strategy into a bold, structured and achievable implementation roadmap.
- Drive enterprise-wide digital transformation initiatives aligned to business strategy.
Implementation & Delivery
- Define and sequence digital initiatives across front- and back-office environments.
- Develop digital business investment cases (quantitative and qualitative).
- Embed agile ways of working and modern delivery approaches.
- Track delivery of transformation milestones and measurable business outcomes.
Stakeholder Engagement & Change Enablement
- Engage extensively with executive and senior stakeholders across the organisation.
- Facilitate strategy, visioning and ideation workshops at Exco and Board level.
- Act as a change ambassador, shifting mindsets and driving adoption of digital solutions.
- Collaborate with internal and external partners to enable innovation.
Governance, Risk & Compliance
- Ensure governance, risk and compliance are embedded across digital programmes.
- Provide oversight for ethical and responsible use of emerging technologies.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory, cybersecurity and internal policy frameworks.
Minimum Requirements
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Business, or related field.
- Relevant international certifications (e.g. CISA or similar) will be advantageous.
Experience
- Extensive experience in digital strategy development and execution (15+ years overall).
- Proven track record delivering large-scale digital transformation initiatives.
- Strong experience in crafting digital investment and business cases.
- Demonstrated application of agile methodologies within large organisations.
- Senior-level experience engaging C-suite stakeholders and Boards.
- Previous application development experience is critical.
- Experience in shifting organisational mindsets and enabling change.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- A strategic, commercially minded digital leader with strong execution capability.
- Comfortable operating in complex, regulated environments.
- Highly credible at executive level with exceptional facilitation and communication skills.
- Delivery-focused, decisive, and resilient.
- Able to operate independently with minimal supervision.
If you are a seasoned digital transformation leader seeking a high-impact, strategic role with national significance, we encourage you to apply.
Desired Skills:
- Information Management
- Information Technology (IT)
- Transformation
About The Employer:
Banking
