*R&D*
Emerging Digital security standards and regulation( Local and international)
Payment technologies
Fintech
Payment Flows
Biometrics and RBA
*Design*
Product architecture
API integration
Work flows
UML diagramming
Requirements specifications
*Standards*
OAUTH2.0
OpenID connect
3D secure
*Productivity Tools*
Confluence
Jira
Gitlab
– Prioritising of product features
-OKRs
-App UAT and debugging
-Setting Sprint goals.
-Participating in scrum teams as the Product Owner
-Ensuring that the team always has an adequate amount of specified and refined tasks to work on
-Removing or mitigating impediments to the team progress
-serving as the point of contact between teams and other departments
-ensuring the successful completion of Releases and Sprint Goals
-Planning, executing and monitoring UAT;
-Documenting new product features and system
-Management of Roadmap(Jira)
-Management of backlog (Jira)
-Management of team OKRs
-Stakeholder engagement
Products:
digital wallet
Card
Mobile App
Tools used:
Jira, confluence, slack, git, Miro, iterable, amplitude,Figma
Project Management
Managing internal and external (industry) projects.
New projects/opportunity analysis
Documentation and UAT of projects
Maintenance of launched projects
Interbank queries and all host transaction queries
Banks EFT representative at the payments association of South Africa
Maintaining and ensuring compliance of the electronic streams in the Bank
New projects/opportunity analysis
Relationship building and query handling with Payment System Operators
Business Development and cross divisional education
Identification of new opportunities to expand the electronic payment space usage and educate the banks divisions on the electronic channel and its uses
*Deliverables/achievements*
Designed Bank wide dashboard and payment viewer
Successful roll out of Banks Account verification system
ISO20022 champion for low value payments
facilitation of banking bilateral agreements
PROJECTS
Nedbank Cash onboarding system
• Custodian of entire system
• Communication between Client and Digiata
• Scripting enhancements to system
• Deploying system enhancements
• Continuous improvements off “as is” system
• Suggestions to client for future enhancements
• Training Nedbank staff on system use
• Strategic planning with project sponsor
• Training Digiata Junior staff on using the system
• System Support and maintenance in Microsoft SQL
Nedbank Annual pricing Review
• Designing screens and scripting functionality
• UAT for defects
• Fixing of defects and re-testing
• Communication liaison between testers and business
Nedbank Bank Codes
• System production support
General Duties (All systems)
• System Implementations for financial industry clients
• Project management
• System maintenance and support
• Ad hoc SQL queries
• Technical financial system support
• Creation of test plans and testing systems before go-live
• User Manual creation
• System support (technical)
PROJECTS
ISO20022
• Liason between The payments association of South Africa (PASA) and the bank
• Documenting technical requirements
Payments association of South Africa (PASA) Membership
• EFT Business user group principal representative
• ATM SQS and chargebacks committee principal member
• Providing the bank with Documentation and notices
• representing and voting on behalf the bank at industry meetings, queries, disputes
• Ensuring the bank is compliant with PASA regulations
Master Card
• Fraud monitoring and reporting
• Ensuring compliance with MasterCard Regulations
Bank Recon
• Testing system and ensuring all aspects of requirements from the bank are covered
SASSA (Social grants) Distribution of funds
• Square off- Balancing the bank at the end of day
• Assisting pensioners with queries regarding grants
• Liasing with Net1 (company that had the SASSA contract at the time) regarding funds transfer
• Carrying out instructions to distribute pension funds every month end
• Monthly meeting with Net1
SWIFT
• Monitoring transactions
• Capturing instructions
General Duties:
• Documenting requirements using wireframes
• Creating of BRS/FRS documents using UML
• Requirements Gathering for projects
• Creation of test plans and testing systems before go-live
• IT project management and administration (Documentation, Liaising with external project managers, monitoring projects)
• IT admin and finances
• Carrying out financial instructions
• Creating of BRS/FRS documents using UML
• Creation of test plans and testing systems
• IT project management and administration (Documentation, Liasing with external project managers, monitoring projects)
• IT Governance(Compliance, policies)
• Fraud monitoring and reporting(Master card)
• IT admin and finances
• Bank reconciliation
• Carrying out financial instructions
Developed the following systems:
Fast food point of sale system(system was a finalist in the Microsoft imagine cup 2009 final)
Student sponsorship system
Performance management system
