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LAND BANK
REGIONAL HEAD: COMMERCIAL BANKING AND TRANSFORMATION (NORTHERN REGION - LIMPOPO)
Details
Closing Date 2024/12/02
Reference Number LAN241118-4
Job Title Regional Head: Commercial Banking and Transformation (Northern Region - Limpopo)
Division Banking
Unit Commercial Development Banking
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location – Country South Africa
Location – Province Limpopo
Location - Town / City Polokwane
Job Advert Summary
The Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (Land Bank) is South Africa’s only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bank’s sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people.
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB
To manage the Commercial Banking and Transformation Regions and provide leadership to ensure that key strategic objectives are met. Is responsible for adopting and optimising a best fit operational model with the appropriate finance, governance and risk framework and controls, and ensure alignment with the Bank's guidelines, policies and legislation. Needs to lead and drive a focused client segmentation with segment-appropriate service models and client value propositions to facilitate the business growth and build positive returns of the Commercial Banking and Transformation segment (from emerging commercial farmers to existing medium and large commercial farmer markets) at a regional level. Required to embed efficient processes and customer service standards in order to improve the experiences of customers in the area of responsibility as well as establish and maintain effective partner and stakeholder relationships to leverage support and enable the implementation of the customer value proposition for the Commercial Banking and Transformation customer segment.
Key Performance Areas
1. Facilitate Development Transformation Of The Agricultural Sector (Developmental Effectiveness)
- Develop the operational plan annually to achieve contracted / targeted growth and cascade targets to Regional team.
- Implement the operational plan through Provincial Heads and ensure alignment at Regional level.
- Continuously review and track the execution of the Operational Plan to spot any deviations or issues, and make necessary adjustments as needed.
- Drive growth of the Commercial Banking and Transformation segment (as per the client segmentation model which includes emerging commercial farmers, existing medium and large commercial farmer markets) at a regional level.
- Ensure growth of the loan book.
- Drive the achievement of agreed financial sustainability and profitability plan for the Region.
- Measure of cost to income ratio to ensure positive portfolio health.
- Track non-interest revenue at a regional level.
- Develop and execute integrated sales, relationship, and portfolio growth strategies that are aligned with the business plan to achieve targets and other agreed objectives at Regional level.
- Ensure that the appropriate quality of business is procured for the Region.
- Deliver the agreed component of the Banking’s customer value proposition in the Region.
- Create a strong customer service culture, fostering an environment in which the Region (and Provincial Offices) work together to achieve all customer standards in the scorecard goals.
- Drive efforts in the Region to identify and implement service behaviours that improve the overall customer experience.
- Resolve escalated customer complaints/issues promptly and effectively.
- Ensure there is effectiveness of collaboration with internal stakeholders to ensure that business needs are being met.
- Liaise with key stakeholders internally to support appropriate agreements when required.
- Build synergy with other divisions within the Bank.
- Define employee training and development plans for the region.
- Ensure ethical behaviour of employees.
- Ensure employee satisfaction and good culture.
- Ensure ethical employee behaviour.
- Ensure there is ongoing evaluation of operations, with input provided as potential areas of improvement are identified to improve the efficiency of recommended improvements to systems and processes to meet defined professional standards.
- Ensure high quality of performance and output of teams.
- Ensure improvement for core processes.
- Act as first point of contact for audit, risk, compliance and business continuity and control environment.
- Provide input into the formulation of policies, systems, processes, and procedures to promote operational excellence.
- Make the necessary procedure amendments in line with changes to bank wide policy.
- Preferred Minimum Education and Experience
- 4 Year Degree in Commerce, Business Management, or other relevant and equivalent qualification in Banking and Financial Services
- Experience in Development Finance or Commercial Banking environment - 6 to 10 years
- Experience at managerial level which includes a role in customer-facing profit making business units - 6 to 10 years
- Experience in an Agricultural business environment - 5 years
- Banking or Commercial environment - 5 years
- Senior Managerial level - 5 years
Critical Competencies
- Microsoft Office
- Business operations, business processes, management, budgeting, and business office operations.
- Accounting Principles
- Credit / Lending / Loan Assessment (Due Diligence & Financial Modelling)
- Financial Analysis
- Customer service orientation
- Financial / Business Acumen
- Additional Requirements
- Extended hours as and when required
- Willing to travel extensively
Policy
Preference will be given to suitably qualified Applicants who are members of the designated groups in line with the Employment Equity Plan and Targets of the Land Bank.
PLEASE APPLY HERE
REGIONAL HEAD: COMMERCIAL BANKING AND TRANSFORMATION (CENTRAL REGION - HEAD OFFICE)
Details
Closing Date 2024/12/02
Reference Number LAN241118-3
Job Title Regional Head: Commercial Banking and Transformation (Central Region - Head Office)
Division Banking
Unit Commercial Development Banking
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location – Country South Africa
Location – Province Gauteng
Location - Town / City Centurion
Job Advert Summary
The Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (Land Bank) is South Africa’s only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bank’s sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people.
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB
To manage the Commercial Banking and Transformation Regions and provide leadership to ensure that key strategic objectives are met. Is responsible for adopting and optimising a best fit operational model with the appropriate finance, governance and risk framework and controls, and ensure alignment with the Bank's guidelines, policies and legislation. Needs to lead and drive a focused client segmentation with segment-appropriate service models and client value propositions to facilitate the business growth and build positive returns of the Commercial Banking and Transformation segment (from emerging commercial farmers to existing medium and large commercial farmer markets) at a regional level. Required to embed efficient processes and customer service standards in order to improve the experiences of customers in the area of responsibility as well as establish and maintain effective partner and stakeholder relationships to leverage support and enable the implementation of the customer value proposition for the Commercial Banking and Transformation customer segment.
Key Performance Areas
1. Facilitate Development Transformation Of The Agricultural Sector (Developmental Effectiveness)
Critical Competencies
Policy
Preference will be given to suitably qualified Applicants who are members of the designated groups in line with the Employment Equity Plan and Targets of the Land Bank.
PLEASE APPLY HERE
REGIONAL HEAD: COMMERCIAL BANKING AND TRANSFORMATION (CENTRAL REGION - HEAD OFFICE)
Details
Closing Date 2024/12/02
Reference Number LAN241118-3
Job Title Regional Head: Commercial Banking and Transformation (Central Region - Head Office)
Division Banking
Unit Commercial Development Banking
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location – Country South Africa
Location – Province Gauteng
Location - Town / City Centurion
Job Advert Summary
The Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (Land Bank) is South Africa’s only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bank’s sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people.
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB
To manage the Commercial Banking and Transformation Regions and provide leadership to ensure that key strategic objectives are met. Is responsible for adopting and optimising a best fit operational model with the appropriate finance, governance and risk framework and controls, and ensure alignment with the Bank's guidelines, policies and legislation. Needs to lead and drive a focused client segmentation with segment-appropriate service models and client value propositions to facilitate the business growth and build positive returns of the Commercial Banking and Transformation segment (from emerging commercial farmers to existing medium and large commercial farmer markets) at a regional level. Required to embed efficient processes and customer service standards in order to improve the experiences of customers in the area of responsibility as well as establish and maintain effective partner and stakeholder relationships to leverage support and enable the implementation of the customer value proposition for the Commercial Banking and Transformation customer segment.
Key Performance Areas
1. Facilitate Development Transformation Of The Agricultural Sector (Developmental Effectiveness)
- Develop the operational plan annually to achieve contracted / targeted growth and cascade targets to Regional team.
- Implement the operational plan through Provincial Heads and ensure alignment at Regional level.
- Continuously review and track the execution of the Operational Plan to spot any deviations or issues, and make necessary adjustments as needed.
- Drive growth of the Commercial Banking and Transformation segment (as per the client segmentation model which includes emerging commercial farmers, existing medium and large commercial farmer markets) at a regional level.
- Ensure growth of the loan book.
- Drive the achievement of agreed financial sustainability and profitability plan for the Region.
- Measure of cost to income ratio to ensure positive portfolio health.
- Track non-interest revenue at a regional level.
- Develop and execute integrated sales, relationship, and portfolio growth strategies that are aligned with the business plan to achieve targets and other agreed objectives at Regional level.
- Ensure that the appropriate quality of business is procured for the Region.
- Deliver the agreed component of the Banking’s customer value proposition in the Region.
- Create a strong customer service culture, fostering an environment in which the Region (and Provincial Offices) work together to achieve all customer standards in the scorecard goals.
- Drive efforts in the Region to identify and implement service behaviours that improve the overall customer experience.
- Resolve escalated customer complaints/issues promptly and effectively.
- Ensure there is effectiveness of collaboration with internal stakeholders to ensure that business needs are being met.
- Liaise with key stakeholders internally to support appropriate agreements when required.
- Build synergy with other divisions within the Bank.
- Define employee training and development plans for the region.
- Ensure ethical behaviour of employees.
- Ensure employee satisfaction and good culture.
- Ensure ethical employee behaviour.
- Ensure there is ongoing evaluation of operations, with input provided as potential areas of improvement are identified to improve the efficiency of recommended improvements to systems and processes to meet defined professional standards.
- Ensure high quality of performance and output of teams.
- Ensure improvement for core processes.
- Act as first point of contact for audit, risk, compliance and business continuity and control environment.
- Provide input into the formulation of policies, systems, processes, and procedures to promote operational excellence.
- Make the necessary procedure amendments in line with changes to bank wide policy.
- Preferred Minimum Education and Experience
- 4 Year Degree in Commerce, Business Management, or other relevant and equivalent qualification in Banking and Financial Services
- Experience in Development Finance or Commercial Banking environment - 6 to 10 years
- Experience at managerial level which includes a role in customer-facing profit making business units - 6 to 10 years
- Experience in an Agricultural business environment - 5 years
- Banking or Commercial environment - 5 years
- Senior Managerial level - 5 years
Critical Competencies
- Microsoft Office
- Business operations, business processes, management, budgeting, and business office operations.
- Accounting Principles
- Credit / Lending / Loan Assessment (Due Diligence & Financial Modelling)
- Financial Analysis
- Customer service orientation
- Financial / Business Acumen
- Additional Requirements
- Extended hours as and when required
- Willing to travel extensively
Policy
Preference will be given to suitably qualified Applicants who are members of the designated groups in line with the Employment Equity Plan and Targets of the Land Bank.
PLEASE APPLY HERE
REGIONAL HEAD: COMMERCIAL BANKING AND TRANSFORMATION (CAPE REGION - CAPE TOWN)
Details
Closing Date 2024/12/02
Reference Number LAN241118-2
Job Title Regional Head: Commercial Banking and Transformation (Cape Region - Cape Town)
Division Banking
Unit Commercial Development Banking
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location – Country South Africa
Location – Province Western Cape
Location - Town / City Cape Town
Job Advert Summary
The Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (Land Bank) is South Africa’s only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bank’s sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people.
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB
To manage the Commercial Banking and Transformation Regions and provide leadership to ensure that key strategic objectives are met. Is responsible for adopting and optimising a best fit operational model with the appropriate finance, governance and risk framework and controls, and ensure alignment with the Bank's guidelines, policies and legislation. Needs to lead and drive a focused client segmentation with segment-appropriate service models and client value propositions to facilitate the business growth and build positive returns of the Commercial Banking and Transformation segment (from emerging commercial farmers to existing medium and large commercial farmer markets) at a regional level. Required to embed efficient processes and customer service standards in order to improve the experiences of customers in the area of responsibility as well as establish and maintain effective partner and stakeholder relationships to leverage support and enable the implementation of the customer value proposition for the Commercial Banking and Transformation customer segment.
Key Performance Areas
1. Facilitate Development Transformation Of The Agricultural Sector (Developmental Effectiveness)
- Develop the operational plan annually to achieve contracted / targeted growth and cascade targets to Regional team.
- Implement the operational plan through Provincial Heads and ensure alignment at Regional level.
- Continuously review and track the execution of the Operational Plan to spot any deviations or issues, and make necessary adjustments as needed.
- Drive growth of the Commercial Banking and Transformation segment (as per the client segmentation model which includes emerging commercial farmers, existing medium and large commercial farmer markets) at a regional level.
- Ensure growth of the loan book.
- Drive the achievement of agreed financial sustainability and profitability plan for the Region.
- Measure of cost to income ratio to ensure positive portfolio health.
- Track non-interest revenue at a regional level.
- Develop and execute integrated sales, relationship, and portfolio growth strategies that are aligned with the business plan to achieve targets and other agreed objectives at Regional level.
- Ensure that the appropriate quality of business is procured for the Region.
- Deliver the agreed component of the Banking’s customer value proposition in the Region.
- Create a strong customer service culture, fostering an environment in which the Region (and Provincial Offices) work together to achieve all customer standards in the scorecard goals.
- Drive efforts in the Region to identify and implement service behaviours that improve the overall customer experience.
- Resolve escalated customer complaints/issues promptly and effectively.
- Ensure there is effectiveness of collaboration with internal stakeholders to ensure that business needs are being met.
- Liaise with key stakeholders internally to support appropriate agreements when required.
- Build synergy with other divisions within the Bank.
- Define employee training and development plans for the region.
- Ensure ethical behaviour of employees.
- Ensure employee satisfaction and good culture.
- Ensure ethical employee behaviour.
- Ensure there is ongoing evaluation of operations, with input provided as potential areas of improvement are identified to improve the efficiency of recommended improvements to systems and processes to meet defined professional standards.
- Ensure high quality of performance and output of teams.
- Ensure improvement for core processes.
- Act as first point of contact for audit, risk, compliance and business continuity and control environment.
- Provide input into the formulation of policies, systems, processes, and procedures to promote operational excellence.
- Make the necessary procedure amendments in line with changes to bank wide policy.
- Preferred Minimum Education and Experience
- 4 Year Degree in Commerce, Business Management, or other relevant and equivalent qualification in Banking and Financial Services
- Experience in Development Finance or Commercial Banking environment - 6 to 10 years
- Experience at managerial level which includes a role in customer-facing profit making business units - 6 to 10 years
- Experience in an Agricultural business environment - 5 years
- Banking or Commercial environment - 5 years
- Senior Managerial level - 5 years
Critical Competencies
- Microsoft Office
- Business operations, business processes, management, budgeting, and business office operations.
- Accounting Principles
- Credit / Lending / Loan Assessment (Due Diligence & Financial Modelling)
- Financial Analysis
- Customer service orientation
- Financial / Business Acumen
- Additional Requirements
- Extended hours as and when required
- Willing to travel extensively
Policy
Preference will be given to suitably qualified Applicants who are members of the designated groups in line with the Employment Equity Plan and Targets of the Land Bank.
PLEASE APPLY HERE
BUSINESS MANAGER: BANKING
Details
Closing Date 2024/11/27
Reference Number LAN241118-5
Job Title Business Manager: Banking
Division Banking
Unit Commercial Development Banking
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location – Country South Africa
Location – Province Gauteng
Location - Town / City Centurion
Job Advert Summary
The Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (Land Bank) is South Africa’s only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bank’s sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people.
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB
To provide a business management support function through the coordination of various strategic initiatives and operations management interventions thereby supporting the Chief Banking Officer and the team to achieve effective and efficient application of resources.
To support the Chief Banking Officer and the business unit team with various activities with particular emphasis on Business Planning, Cost Management; Financial Performance Management, and Reporting, Modelling and Data Analysis ,Project Coordination, Risk Management, Change Management, Operational and Administrative functions while facilitating proper governance and compliance to legislation and best practice within the framework of the Land Bank's policies and guidelines.
Key Performance Areas
1. Business Planning at Divisional Level
In liaison with the Chief Banking Officer coordinate various business planning and strategic initiatives and projects on behalf of the various Departments within the Division. These include amongst others the following:
- Coordinate and contribute to the development and implementation of the Corporate plan and Divisional plan to execute agreed strategic objectives.
- Work with team members and secures cooperation from colleagues and divisional team members to implement key strategies, projects and initiatives as identified for the division.
- Coordinate, monitor, track and report on these strategies and initiatives including recommending enhancements/changes as and when required.
- Provide business intelligence to the Chief Banking Officer by conducting studies, research and keeping abreast on issues affecting areas of responsibility which inform the direction of the Division.
2. Strategic Coordination and Preparation for Meetings, and Engagements
- Prepare the divisional annual calendar
- Engage with Chief Banking Officer's direct reports and prepare the agenda for the Management Committee (Manco)
- Track all resolutions and action items arising from the Manco meetings
- Coordinate and/or prepare any required concept documents, reports, memos, letters and presentations on behalf of the Chief Banking Officer/General Managers as and when required.
- Research, collate any relevant information and scrutinise complex submissions/reports and provide input or feedback to the Chief Banking Officer.
- Proactively support the Chief Banking Officer with specific reference to the following:
- Establish and implement effective business support functions, set up and maintain systems processes and procedures that will contribute towards improving efficiencies and improve the customer experience
- Manage the effective flow of information and documents across the division down to implementation level
- Monitor and evaluate efficiencies and identify opportunity for enhancement including improvement of products and services through established mechanisms
- Champions new ways of delivering services that contribute to the improvement of processes in order to achieve organisational and divisional goals.
- Act as the Budget Controller for the Chief Banking Officer, monitor and report on variances concerning the budget.
- Represent Division as a Risk champion.
- Monitor aspects related to business continuity and Enterprise Risk Management.
- Identify potential risks within areas of responsibility and make recommendations to mitigate identified risks.
- Updating risk register and tracking progress.
- Incident management report.
- Implements innovative service delivery options in own section.
- Plan, manage, monitors and evaluates activities around designated strategic projects in order to support the delivery of desired outputs and outcomes.
- Monitor and track project goals and objectives and progress within prescribed time frames and funding parameters.
- Coordinate high level meetings and events in collaboration with the relevant support divisions related to the project.
- Compiles divisional Performance Reporting
- Track, monitor and report on the Performance Scorecard of the Division and all the departmental/business units in the Division.
- Lead optimization projects to improve client service and operational efficiencies.
- Analyse system and data gaps to implement reporting requirements.
- Participate in the process change committee, to ensure changes across the business are integrated and aligned.
- Facilitate policy revisions pertaining to the division.
Performance Management
- Analyse the business plan to determine the applicable deliverables and targets.
- Compile the Performance Management documentation in collaboration with the staff member.
- Determine the human resource requirements, in accordance with the expected deliverables and current capacity.
- Secure the human capital requirements to ensure that deliverables will be met in accordance with the expected targets.
Preferred Minimum Education and Experience
- Postgraduate tertiary qualification in relevant area of focus / Financial Management / Cost Management / Business Administration.
- 5 - 8 years relevant work experience as a Business Manager / Cost Management Practitioner / Financial Modelling / Management Consultant / Project Manager / Chief Banking Officer Coordinator.
- 5 years Leadership experience in a comparable environment.
Critical Competencies
- Analytics (relevant to the function)
- Legislation
- Strategic Report Writing
- Microsoft Office
- Project Management Principles
- Financial Principles and Modelling
- Strategic Planning and Processes
- Governance and Risk
- Sub-committee meetings and Board knowledge
Additional Requirements
- Extended hours as and when required.
- Travel as and when required.
Policy
Preference will be given to suitably qualified Applicants who are members of the designated groups in line with the Employment Equity Plan and Targets of the Land Bank.
PLEASE APPLY HERE