Chris Denyschen

Experience

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  Nasionale Boekhandel

  Jan 1982 - Jun 1984

  Assistant Financial Accountant

  Assistant accountant, for the JHB branch in Braamfontein. Accountable for the financial bookkeeping and management up to Balanced sheet. Including Debtors, Creditors and the management of all fixed assets, Salaries, Wages, Petty Cash and Audit and Financial Compliance matters. Reporting to the Accountant Financial Accounting to Trial Balance  Accountable for the Debtors book Accountable for the creditors book Accountable for the Asset register of the JHB branch Intimately involved in the planning and roll out of the 1st ever computer in Nasboek, Modem communications, Back-ups, restores and the conversion from the Burroughs accounting machine System. Show less

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  Santam Bank

  Jun 1984 - Feb 1988

  Business Analyst in the Santam Bank IT Department, accountable for the analysis, design and implmementation of all Financial Interfaces to Product, Utility and Financial Sub Leger Systems. Manager in the Financial department of Santam Bank Head Office, a subsidiary of the BANKORP Group. Accountable for Asset Management, Group Financial Control account reconciliations, Central Bank Assurance, Transfer Pricing and Head office costing and operations. The Head office Infrastructure, office management, office rentals and office allocation, and maintenance contracts for buildings and premises.

  • Business Systems Analyst - Financials and Systems

    Jun 1986 - Feb 1988

  • Finance Departmental Head

    Jun 1984 - Jun 1986
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  Absa Group

  May 1986 - now

  Manage the successful end-to-end delivery and execution of strategic change programmes that are enterprise-wide/cross-business sector, supporting the realisation of the Group’s strategic goals under the mandate of Absa / Barclays Bank Africa.Accountable for the End to End delivery of Projects, IT Services and maintaining the operations from a technology point of view for the following environments:ABSA Group Risk, - Operational Risk (AMA), Credit Risk (AIRB – BASEL II) and Market Risk Systems Applications and Operations, Anti Money - Laundering (AML) Sanctions, Money Laundering and Compliance , Forensic - Physical Security - Marketing, Business Continuity and OHS - Systems Applications and Operations, Ensureing satisfactory service delivery. Manage cost within approved budgets. Ensure compliance to policies or legislation and regulations Ensure quality and content of new strategic initiatives. Review and understand the cluster strategies and medium term plans. Oversee the execution of projects or programmes and initiatives managed. Liaise with executives within the cluster and outside the cluster to support key programmes. Review cluster projects against the listing of programmes for the remainder of the Group and ensure alignment of programmes. Resolve high-level issues regarding the business's change portfolio. Ensure quick response to cluster requests to acquire designs or cost estimates quotes and contribute to the business case preparation to access the funds required. Align business and technology strategy per cluster to drive the implementation of requirements stipulated in the strategy and business needs Action and deliver cluster technology architecture in alignment with enterprise architecture and standards Manage key Technology projects Understand over business dynamics to provide optimal business delivery, Show less IT Program Manager for BASEL II Credit Risk implementation 2003 - 2008 AIRB, AMA and standardised for Africa. Then Became the IT Portfolio Manager for the ABSA Group Risk Portfolio consisting out of Anti Money Laundering, Sanctions, AML, Prohibitions, and PEP 's. Credit Risk, Market Risk, Operational Risk, Legal, Internal Audit and Business continuity Management, Compliance and Regulatory Governance. 2008 – 2010. In addition to the ABSA Group Risk portfolios, the following functional areas have also been allocated to my Portfolios: ABSA Africa Security (Physical) and ABSA Group Marketing. Since 2010 – Current I am fulfilling for the above area the role of Manager: Business Engagement and Technology | Enterprise Shared Services | Africa Technology. Show less Outputs to deliver this accountability:• Create an agreed strategic portfolio of projects which meets the stakeholder requirements, which integrates acrossthe various RFT (Risk, Finance, Treasury) portfolios, by anticipating customer needs and wants and identifying anddefining appropriate additional/new change projects in support of each Services Cluster business goals. This wouldencompass a fundamental understanding of the stakeholders business landscapes and model, the drivers and theoperational requirements.• Identify and leverage synergies between the various strategic initiatives that are mobilised within this portfolio andprovide guidance and direction when developing plans for the implementation of strategic initiatives that are part ofthe respective portfolio• Manage the project managers assigned to deliver these initiatives through the standard Absa BCL and SDLC• Mobilise sponsors and business owners to support key projects by giving guidance, thought leadership andtechnology and change direction in line with Absa's architectural principles.• Manage services and support by service level engagements and operational level agreements with all providersinternally and externally.• Manage and ensure a stable technology environment by ensuring that there is continuous monitoring of systemperformance, deployment of applications and systems within the Absa architectural framework and engage withSLAs. Show less Accountable for the End to End delivery of Projects, It Services and maintaining the operations from a technology point of view for the following environments:Group Risk, - Operational Risk (AMA), Credit Risk (AIRB – BASEL II) and Market Risk Systems Applications and Operations, Projects and ImplementationsAnti Money - Laundering (AML) Sanctions, Money Laundering and Compliance Systems Applications and Operations, Projects and Implementations.Internal Audit - Applications and Operations, Projects and ImplementationsForensic - Systems Applications and Operations, Projects and ImplementationsPhysical Security - Systems Applications and Operations, Projects and ImplementationsMarketing - Systems Applications and Operations, Projects and ImplementationsBusiness Continuity and OHS - Systems Applications and Operations, Projects and ImplementationsLead a team of Technical Team Leads and Project Managers to ensure the quality delivery and exploitation of the Portfolio, as well as the production Services team to ensure System oprations and Services acording to agreed SLA 's, with in the frameworks of ITIL, COBIT and PMP standards. Show less Accountable for the End to End delivery of Projects, It Services and maintaining the operations from a technology point of view for the following environments:Group Risk, - Operational Risk (AMA), Credit Risk (AIRB – BASEL II) and Market Risk Systems Applications and Operations, Projects and ImplementationsAnti Money - Laundering (AML) Sanctions, Money Laundering and Compliance Systems Applications and Operations, Projects and Implementations.Internal Audit - Applications and Operations, Projects and ImplementationsForensic - Systems Applications and Operations, Projects and ImplementationsPhysical Security - Systems Applications and Operations, Projects and ImplementationsMarketing - Systems Applications and Operations, Projects and ImplementationsBusiness Continuity and OHS - Systems Applications and Operations, Projects and ImplementationsTo ensure the successful delivery of Services for a sector through the collaboration with the Exco to ensure delivery according to defined standards, guidelines and business information plansManage a Delivery Assurance portfolio in terms of all components of the sector (for example: data sourcing, reporting, statistical analysis, data privacy, data security, quality and etc…)Act as advisor to the COO, Sector CIO and Business Executives (and other project sponsors) with regards to Enterprise Shared Services (ESS) delivery effectiveness, providing key metrics and decision enabling information and guidance.Manage the Project Teams, Portfolio Managers and Services areas to ensure Execution of Projects and programs, servioces and Operations in the Run environments. Oversee the activities of the ESS team to ensure effective delivery of services Create effective workforce and recruitment demand plans to ensure that current and future business requirements can be met. Motivate team members and ensure that their efforts are recognized. Show less

  • Lead Technology Partner | Finance Management (TAX)

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Senior Project, Program and Portfolio Manager - Regulatory, Compliance, FinCrime and Risk

    Feb 2018 - Dec 2022

  • Manager: Business Engagement & Technology | Enterprise Shared Services | Africa Technology at Absa

    Jan 2012 - Jan 2018

  • Project & Portfolio Management Risk BASEL II - IT Solutions & Technology

    Mar 2008 - Jan 2012

  • GT - Portfolio Manager – Absa Risk Management

    Jun 2008 - Apr 2010

  • IT Portfolio Manager Risk

    May 2008 - Apr 2010

  • Project & Portfolio Management IT Solutions & Technology

    Jan 2001 - Jan 2010

  • Senior Project and Program Manager IT

    Sept 1995 - May 2008

  • Technology Manager Assigned to Outsourced Projects (IBM SA)

    May 1986 - Aug 1995
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  Triangle Technical & Safety

  Feb 1987 - Sept 1994

  Business Owner

  1987 – 1994During the above-mentioned period, I have had some spare time capacity and I became involved in the second-hand motor trade. I started with Chris’s Cheapy Den and build-up the enterprise to four different business units namely : Denco Motors, Chris’s Cheapy Den, Machina Motors and Denyschen and Weppener Motors, of which the latter two was partnerships.During 1992 I sold my interest in the latter three enterprises to my then in partner, as he had decided to go and explore the motor trade opportunities in the then economically booming Richards Bay.Denco Motors became later dormant, due to my growing responsibilities as a Project Manager and my additional commitments to the professions activities and to become a PMP Certified Project Manager. Show less

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  Trust Bank of SA

  Mar 1988 - Apr 1990

  Information Technology System Manager

  Accountable for Manage the Life Cycle of all business systems, including theapplicable product/infrastructure, on behalf of the businessunits.Reporting to the Head of Retail Banking ProductsAccountable for the Support, Enhancements and Projects on the following Applications with full system custodianship Run the Bank and build the Bank Configuration, GL and Interfaces:  Hogan Loans Hogan Credit Card  Special assignment to a Conversion / Migration team to Merge Santam Bank and Trust Bank Branches Country Wide and to integrate these branches to Trust Bank and the Trade Financing to BANKFIN (Motor and asset finance) MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:-1. SYSTEM/PRODUCT CUSTODIAN - Fully accountable for making the product areas work. - Co-ordinate functionally of systems and products whichcould span across various business areas. - Concerned with product stability. - Maximise the usage of system for ABSA's benefit.2. COST MANAGEMENT Manage the total cost of the systems and products.3. LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT - Manage the life cycle of the systems and products. - Input to business plan product life cycle.4. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT R & D with respect to product availability, product featuresand trends in usage of products/systems.5. REPRESENTATION - Representation on Industry Product or System Forums. - Facilitate User Forums.6. ARCHITECTURE - Provide input over the Application Architectures. - Ensure adherence to IT, to Architectures and otherstandards. Show less