Investec Bank Mauritius Ltd

Leading the transformation of our tech capabilities with a focus on excellence and client-centric service. 

- Leading the Mauritius Tech team and fostering a culture of excellence.
- Implementing leadership development programs for sustainability.
- Enhancing accountability and aligning expectations with organisational goals.

Introduced operational and governance processes, aligned with industry standards, enhancing efficiency and compliance. Collaborated with fellow senior leadership to set strategic directions and reported to the Board of Directors on Technology initiatives.

My role also involved aligning technology strategy with organisational objectives, enabling digital servicing, and ensuring a cutting-edge digital experience for clients. Accountable for overseeing IT budgets, technology architecture, and application roadmaps, ensuring alignment with business goals and mitigating risks.

With a dedicated team, we've consistently achieved our objectives on time, within budget, and to the highest standard.

Chief Information Officer

Provide leadership, mentoring, development and coaching to team members. Remove obstacles for the team to deliver and cultivate passionate, talented individuals who are empowered and committed.

Create and design the Data Strategy for Investec Specialist Bank, and develop the measurement framework to track maturity and progress.

Operational and Strategic management of the Business Intelligence & Operational Analytics capability within Private Bank. Identify and test Machine learning use cases and implementation of the models within Private Bank South Africa. 

Refactor and design of business intelligence data architecture. Implementation of auto data warehousing to ensure delivery of data consistency and efficiency within the environment.

In short... we make the “data magic” for Investec!

Head Business Intelligence Private Bank South Africa & Global Digital

CyberPro Consulting (Pty) Ltd

Senior Data Scientists at Investec,  working on democratizing analytics within the organization.

Senior Data Scientist

South African Revenue Service (SARS)

Developed and introduced a new reporting methodology and mechanism which integrates multiple measures within one interface to increase data utilisation and management of day-to-day activities. It also allows Management to see the impact of decisions and track the success rate of strategic priorities in a very short space of time. Recommendations for corrective actions with probability of success are also shown based on Predictive Model outputs.

Debt Collection Predictive Model - Developed and implemented a collectability model for Debt Collection; the model enables debt collectors to work on debt cases with the highest probability of payment, thereby reducing the total case load and increase efficiency. The implementation of this model brought on a new era in the way the organisation utilises information and analytics to improve processes and performance.

Assisted the World Bank with a Macro Economic modelling exercise regarding the effectiveness of Corporate tax incentives in the current tax system. The outcome of the study was used as input to the Davis Tax Committee on possible tax reform changes.

Provide insight to Executive & Senior management on possible behavioural shifts of taxpayers and changes in submission and payment patterns, quantify future risk factors with probability of occurrence and highlight possible solutions.

Developed and managed the Submission Forecast models used to track submissions of Taxpayers and Employers during both filing seasons. The Filing Season submissions and Forecasts are the official view of the filing seasons in the organisation. 

Provide career mentoring and shaping of BEE talent to ensure optimal fit and results for the division and organisation. Responsible for management of a team of analysts, specialist and data engineers driving the strategic direction of future projects.

Manager Performance Analytics

Nedbank

End-to-end Costing and Profitability

Designed, implemented and produced the product profitability reports, which included all Capital, Funding, Revenue and cost components for each product.

Established a process to ensure a central view of the Bank’s product profitability was done at Group Finance Divisional level.

Transfer Pricing

Key role player in the Design, management and execution of the Central Transfer Pricing model to determine the Inward Transfer Pricing for all Clusters. The results were crucial in ensuring the financial statements of the bank were correctly portrayed.

Manager Activity Based Costing & Product Profitability

Dex Data

Obtained in-depth knowledge of life and short term insurance industries specifically on pricing models and Valuation.

Engaged with external clients on new business opportunities and ventures.

Understanding and quantifying risk elements within business, and plan accordingly based on quantitative data, empirical and scientific evidence

Statistician

Rentmeester Assurance

Obtained valuable knowledge on the application of Statistical Modelling and Forecasting methodologies in order to assist management with organisational decisions at Operational and Strategic level.

Actuarial Assistant

As the Chief Information Officer at Investec Bank Mauritius Ltd, I lead the transformation of our tech capabilities with a focus on excellence and client-centric service.

My core competencies include data analytics, machine learning, leadership development, operational and governance processes, and digital servicing. I have a restless spirit and a passion for questioning the conventional and using my imagination to help teams solve complex problems.

Daniel Seymore

Investec

- Design and drive the Data Governance Roadmap 
- Implementation of Data Catalogue Tool (Purview) and
Reference Data Management (RDM) Tool (Profisee).
- Align with group Data Governance policies and framework, based on aligned with DAMA
- Drive data governance practices and awareness and adoption of the data cataloguing, RDM and lineage tools.
- Data maturity assessment and tracking.

Data Goverance and Proficiency Lead

- Led and mentored a cross-functional team of twenty Application Owners, Data Modelers, Analyst, Scientists and Engineers.
- Collaborated with leads across bank to align data strategies.
- Designed and drove data platform and application roadmap for the Private Bank.
- Directed the platform modernisation to Azure and distributed data mesh architecture.
- Accountable for the maintenance, operation and monitoring of the data platform and its applications to ensure data availability and stability.
- Accountable for the technical solutions and data operations for regulatory submissions, including FATCA & CRS, IT3 and SACRRA.
- Responsible for application and people budgets 
- Served as a member of the Private Bank’s Tech Manco.

Data Tech Lead

- Application Owner responsible for reporting tools: SSRS, Power BI and ThoughtSpot.
- Led team of Data Analyst and Data Modelers who supported the Private Banks data needs. 
- Managed data analysis and modelling resourcing and budgets for data queries, projects and programs.
- Drove the roadmap to model all logic in the data mart and transition users from legacy reporting tools to self-service reporting in ThoughtSpot.
- Promoted data governance best practices by driving process documents and source data dictionaries as necessary artefacts for any data project work.

ThoughtSpot Application Owner and Business Intelligence Integration Team Leader

- Managed three teams of Data Analysts and Data Engineers to support different business functions.
- Led the delivery of tech and data initiatives and the alignment to the roadmap.
- Led the rollout of ThoughtSpot.
- Stakeholder management.
- Established ceremonies and structure to drive visibility of work, alignment to prioritization and clear feedback loops.

Business Intelligence Integration Team Leader

Unilever

- Managed a team of Data Analysts and Developers/ Engineers across UK, Poland, and India.
- Led the analysis, design and delivery of global, regional, cross-functional business intelligence solutions.
- Oversaw the programme management.
- Managed data platforms and applications, implementing development and maintenance support models.
- Handled supplier management for services and tools.

Senior Information & Analytics Delivery Lead

- Led the end-to-end design, development, and support of global Business Intelligence solutions
- Led the design and implementation of a tool for Global Finance team (400+ users) to analyse spend across  cost centres. 
- Managed multiple projects delivered by geographically dispersed teams.

Business Intelligence IT Projects Lead

- Audited regional SAP ERP systems, global IT departments, IT projects and programmes
- Led global information security review
- Delivered and led internal unit audits and reviews, auditing all aspects of IT and information security across Unilever globally
- Contributed to excellence standards and IT audit guides.

Global IT Audit Manager

- Designed information solutions based on in including data warehouse, Master data Management (MDM) tools; financial collection and consolidation systems
- During replacement of Global Finance and Management reporting information systems with SAP BCS and BW, led offshore parties in the design, development and testing of interfaces for transfer Master Reference Data (MRD) from Kalido data warehouse to SAP. 
- Led development of processes and solutions for offshore operation

Information Manager

- Designed, analysed and managed Master Reference Data (MRD) for IT information Management Systems across the Data warehouse and the global reporting, consolidation and collection databases.
- Co-ordinated the implementation of changes across the system landscape.
- Conducted design and impact analysis on MRD for all new collection and reporting requirements.
- Process owner for Sarbanes Oxley MRD maintenance processes (Regulatory Reporting). No exceptions reported.

Master Reference Data (MRD) Manager

Experience in all phases of the implementation of the Global Financial Collection, Consolidation and Reporting Solution including:
- Gathered and analysed requirements.
- Designed and documented proposed collection processes.
- Supported data migration analysis and activities.
- Designed and implemented of the system’s Master Reference data (MRD).
- Supported and upgraded the legacy collection tool

Business Data Analyst

ATIO Pty Ltd

- Responsible for the Customer Relationship Management and the Quality of Service (Voice & data logging, Staff and Workforce Management) product suite.
- Developed simulation models of customer's call centres using the Arena simulation pack, to assess the call center's current performance level and the impact and benefit on performance of implementing ATIO's various technology solutions.
- Provided technical support to the Sales team including: producing standard proposals, product information guidelines, quotations and presentations.

CRM Technology Manager

Q Data Conslting South Africa

Business Analyst consulting at Mutichoice during the implementation of their customer care and billing system across African continent. 
- Consulted across the full project implementation lifestyle including: requirements collection and analysis; system configuration across countries; system testing; user acceptance testing; quality assurance; defect resolutions; deployment; post-go live support; and standardisation of system configuration.

Business Consultant

Colgate Palmolive

- Produced weekly production plans for dental cream line
- Monitored production rates, finished product stock and raw materials stock. Managed ordering of raw and packaging materials and the monthly stock-take

Production Planner (South Africa, Johannesburg)

Airports Company South Africa

- Led capacity planning projects for Johannesburg International Airport including the assessment of the capacity vs. projected capacity demand of check-in desks; vehicle parking bays; arrival and departure time slot capacity; and luggage handling capability
- Co-ordinated and agreed airline time slots changes with Airport Tower Control and published flight schedules for all airlines using Johannesburg International Airport.

Engineer in Training

Experienced Data Tech Lead, driven by a passion for unlocking data's true potential through democratised access, innovation, and robust governance to build trust. My mission is to empower businesses to engage
deeply with data and elevate the Data Analyst role beyond traditional tasks of building dashboards and writing queries.

10 years experience leading diverse high-performing teams of Application Owners, Data Modellers, Data Analyst and Data Engineer across the globe, in the build, maintenance, and modernisation of data solutions and platforms.

My solid grounding in governance, honed as an IT auditor and now a Data Governance Lead, ensures governance is central to designs.

I am passionate about developing talent, believing in the transformative power of education, and strive to create an empowering environment of trust, accountability, growth, and fun.

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