Chief Digital Officer at a Leading Digital Bank - KPMG Nigeria

KPMG Nigeria - Our client, a leading digital bank within the financial institution that continues to provide value-adding financial services to customers is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Chief Digital Officer

Location: Nigeria

Overview

• We are seeking for a Chief Digital Officer with the requisite skills and experience with proven track records to join our management team.

The Opportunity- Chief Digital Officer:

• Reporting to the Deputy Managing Director, the Chief Digital Officer will define the key business measures and objectives for the digital bank, including target market segments and their objectives.

The Role

• Own the digital strategy - conceptualize, design, build, deploy and manage digital financial products / services to meet the current / future digital needs of the bank
• Lead the planning, implementation, delivery and continuous improvement of digital solutions for the bank
• Conduct in-depth customer research and engagement to identify and prioritize digital opportunities for the bank through
• Customize customer journeys based on a strong understanding of their needs and behavior patterns
• Act as the single point of contact for all digital product requests, business intelligence reporting and analytical tools requirements to the bank
• Work closely with Digital Product team to introduce new solutions, enhance existing solutions/services and retire obsolete solutions in alignment with digital product plan and roadmap
• Employ data to create new business development plans and effectively mine territory to develop new customer bases
• Build and manage high-performing Digital Solutions teams to deliver against digital roadmap
• Proactively educate the bank on market developments, emerging themes and partnership opportunities in the digital space
• Support the definition and execution of campaigns to enhance speed to market and quality of delivered digital services
• Have a firm grasp of Design Control and Beta Testing activities to ensure seamless market launch
• Track the competition’s activities and focus on ensuring that the bank’s digital products and solutions deployed in the market meet all relevant consumer needs
• Work closely with Retail, Corporate and Commercial Executives teams as well as other stakeholders such as IT, Operations, Information Security, Risk, Finance, Marketing, etc. teams to deliver on projects that are typically highly complex, strategic and cross-functional in nature

About You

• The ideal candidate for this role must have experience in managing a broad portfolio of products/solutions (preferably digital) through the entire lifecycle; with demonstrated leadership in new product development and deployment.
• You should have people and stakeholder management experience and demonstrate a track record of planning, managing and delivering on complex cross functional projects from conceptualization to launch

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of 10 years’ business experience in the technology start-up services, fintech, payments, mobile, software, hardware assets with a track record of progressively taking on senior roles
• Any Bachelor's degree required; MBA is a plus
• Proven record of implementing strategic initiatives, policies and operational decisions
• Strategic thinking and thought leadership
• Understanding of, and experience working with, payment technologies related to eCommerce, Tokenization, Mobile, IOT etc.
• Ability to work within a complex and often ambiguous environment, and to influence senior management and other relevant parties
• Executive presence; strong written and oral communication-including large-group presentations
• Banking Experience will be an advantage.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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