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

Bank Aljazira بنك الجزيرة

Bank AlJazira is a leading Shariah-compliant Islamic Bank in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It's core purpose is to enrich lives through financial wellbeing by providing a variety of tailored and personalized financial products and services through its Retail, Corporate & Business Banking and AlJazira Capital businesses.
- Digitally transforming the Group to meet its growth target of doubling the business by 2024
- Repositioning the Bank's brand, customer base and building a financial ecosystem
- Identifying, partnering and launching new Fintech businesses
- Building and rolling new digital capabilities in the form of Cloud Computing, AI/AA, Social Media, Blockchain and Internet of Things
- Creating JV opportunities and partnership to improve bank performance and impact
- Driving holistic Investor Relations management with an ESG focus

SVP: Group Head of Strategy & Digital Transformation, Marketing & PR

GetSmarter

As the learning facilitator on the MIT Organizational Design for Digital Transformation, we help explore the five key dimensions required for successful digital transformation. Through insights from MIT faculty, participants will learn the capabilities needed to succeed in the digital marketplace. Case studies from organizations that have successfully implemented digital transformation efforts will expose participants to a variety of knowledgeable executives and thought leaders.

Assessor & Learning Facilitator: MIT Sloan Organizational Design for Digital Transformation

Kupanda.co

Kupanda develops, produces and supplies African natural botanical ingredients. It focuses on high-value, esoteric, natural products sourced across Africa for use in the global beauty, personal care and food industries.  Key responsibilities include:

- Board-member and Director Business
- Strategy and incubation 
- Business enablement advisor

Board Member & Non-Executive Director

Absa Group

Powering the Absa Group Limited strategy of doubling the share of revenue in Africa and becoming a banking group Africa will be proud of. Wealth, Investment Management and Insurance is a leading provider of ﬁnancial services products and solutions operating across ﬁve African geographies. Key achievements and outcomes:
- Leading over a team of over 100 people to deliver exceptional customer and colleague experiences across the group through digital channels, business platforms and new operating models
- Transforming the business through the portfolio management of 13 ﬁnancial services licenses, prioritisation and investment decisions of ZAR 500m 
- Reducing operational cost-to-income by 15% whilst generating a return-on-investment of 17% 
- Making an impact by building a new Pan-African Bank that oﬀers universal ﬁnancial services to help over 10 million businesses and communities grow 
- Launching the new Absa brand across the continent across 42k employees including the brand and culture transition 
- Building a new oﬀshore international wealth oﬀering, continental HR digital platform and converged cybersecurity 
- Creating an innovation platform and establishment of an innovation hub in partnerships with a leading academic university 
- Leaving a legacy through enabling career growth and skills development to the value of ZAR 10m
- Building a diversiﬁed and dynamic, modern workforce with a worldclass female:male ratio (70:30)

Director: Strategic Initiatives and Digital Transformation

Barclays

Barclays Africa Financial Services (AFS) is a provider of non-banking ﬁnancial products and services. The business enables the manufacture and distribution of Fiduciary, Pension Funds, Trusts, Life and Short-Term Insurance products Integrated the Wealth and Investment Management business to unlock the ZAR 3bn synergies of institutional and retail customers. Key achievements and outcome:
- Supporting the Head of Strategy to develop market and business related insights and to shape the future direction and structure of the Wealth, Investment Management & Insurance (WIMI) cluster
- Organisation design and development including medium term budgeting
- Designed and launched the new operating model for short and life businesses in ﬁve African territories resulting in increased growth contribution of 20% in regional operations 
- Led the group response to retirement reform including the ZAR 100m revenue business opportunity contained within the Stockbroker, Fund Managers (Collective Investment Schemes) and Retail Bank channels 
- Execution accountability for the development and implementation of innovation solutions such as robo-advisor, biometrics and single view of customer

VP Strategy & Planning: Wealth, Investment Management & Insurance

KPMG

KPGM is one of the world’s leading organizations focused on creating and sustaining value for clients, developing innovative, technology-driven solutions to solve business challenges and help them grow and achieve financial results. Key achievements and outcomes

- Strategy management consultant across multiple industries with a specific focus on end-to-end Business Transformation, Customer Management and African Market Expansion Strategies
- Building out a new Management Consulting capability 
- Sales growth and pipeline development> 200%
- Client lead for Aeronautical and Financial Services conglomerate

Senior Manager: Strategy, Customer and Growth

Accenture

Accenture is a world-leading management consulting, technology and outsourcing services organisation, with oﬃces and operations in more than 200 cities in 56 countries. Key achievements and outcomes:
-Deep industry strategy and implementation experience in Financial Services, Telecommunications and Energy spanning over 10 years 
- Driven +20 business transformation engagements resulting in improved customer experiences, new data capabilities and digital business models 
- Implemented 3 large scale customer centricity programmes, 2 core banking systems, 2 digital transformation initiatives and 1 global analytics centers of excellence
- Led over 10 programmes that drove recruitment and talent management of colleagues in Europe, Africa and Australasia 
- Created and published the Global Customer Survey across 5 industries

Manager: Accenture Management Consulting

Naspers Limited

Graudate Management Programme with a highly specialised focus on business process re-engineering and digitial migration of business capabilities.

Graduate Management Programme

Strategy & Digital Transformation expert with over two decades of experience designing, building, and operationalizing new businesses and brands in the Financial Services industry globally. Winner of the Most Innovative Islamic Bank in 2022, Best Digital Transformation in 2021, nominated for the 2019 Global PMO Awards, and Best Business Leader in Ops in 2018 and 2017, Nahim is a double master's holder and doctoral candidate with ASU's Thunderbird School of Management focusing on AI, Digital, and ESG. Nahim has completed the Senior Executive Programme (SEP94) at London Business School, the Innovation Programme at Harvard Business School, Singularity University Executive Programme (SU) and is currently coaching executives on the MIT Sloan Executive Education course on Organization Design for Digital Transformation.

If you are keen to have a chat about joining a board, public speaking, or simply grabbing a coffee, drop me an email on nahim.bassa@gmail.com

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