Head of IT

Talent Search Recruitment - Indonesia; Indonesia; On-site; IDR 450,000,000 - 550,000,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic IT Manager to lead strategic IT initiatives and operations. This role involves crafting and implementing IT strategies that align with the company's vision, ensuring security and efficiency while fostering innovation. The successful candidate will work closely with senior management to identify new technologies, manage IT budgets, and maintain strong relationships with external suppliers. If you are a driven professional with a background in Fintech and a passion for IT management, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in a forward-thinking organization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in IT management or similar roles required.
• Experience in Fintech and managing IT operations is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic and operational IT planning to meet business goals.
• Manage IT budget and relationships with external suppliers.
• Ensure continuous delivery of IT services and oversee performance.

Skills

Leadership

IT Management

Project Management

Fintech Knowledge

Budget Management

Business Process Knowledge

Technical Understanding

Stakeholder Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Master's degree in related field

Job description

Country Base: Indonesia

Working Experience: 5 years in IT manager or similar position

Major: IT, Computer Science, or related major

Skill & Specific Requirements:

1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (master's degree will be an advantage)
2. Experience managing and/or directing an IT/business operation with a proven track record of successfully delivering IT business plans.
3. Experience in Fintech Industry: 4 years
4. Career IT Professional with demonstrable evidence of continued professional development
5. Considerable knowledge of business processes, management, budgeting, and business operations
6. Substantial exposure to infrastructure, hardware platforms, enterprise software applications, and outsourced systems
7. Good understanding of computer systems characteristics, features, and integration capabilities
8. Excellent understanding of project management principles
9. Proven leadership ability, able to motivate staff to deliver high-quality output in line with set priorities

Job Descriptions:

1. Leading IT provision, this role is responsible for leading the strategic and operational IT planning to achieve business goals by fostering innovation, prioritizing IT initiatives, and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future IT systems across the group.
2. Design and deploy a short and long-term IT Strategy to support the Company's Vision, ensuring that innovation, security, reliability, cost, and utilization are the foundation of any proposal.
3. Work with the senior management team to horizon scan for new technologies, and provide solutions and services to the business that retain and increase competitive advantage.
4. Coordinate and facilitate consultation with stakeholders to define business and systems requirements for new technology implementations.
5. Define and communicate corporate plans, policies, and standards for the organization for acquiring, implementing, and operating IT systems.
6. Ensure that solutions and proposals are scalable and flexible and enable the business to operate with agility and embrace change without impacting productivity.
7. Handling and leading Software, Hardware team & Product Team, etc.
8. Identify opportunities for appropriate and cost-effective investment of financial resources in IT systems and resources, including staffing, sourcing, purchasing, and in-house development.
9. Manage the Group IT budget.
10. Manage the relationships with external suppliers, ensuring that the optimum services and supplies are procured and that contracts engaged into are fit for purpose and meet the business need.
11. Promote and oversee strategic relationships between internal IT resources and external entities.

Operational:

1. Establish IT departmental goals, objectives, and operating procedures.
2. Delivery of department business plan, budget, and team capacity management.
3. Develop and maintain an appropriate IT organizational structure that supports the needs of the business.
4. Supervise recruitment, development, retention, and organization of all IT staff per corporate budgetary objectives and personnel policies.
5. Motivate and develop team members, through a range of performance management techniques.
6. Ensure continuous delivery of IT services through oversight of service level agreements with end users and monitoring of IT systems performance.
7. Reporting to Director and Group COO.

Other Information / Special Request:

1. Fintech Experience Background (Understand OJK regulation and ISO27001).
2. Developer background (Must understand programming language).