Job Title: chief information officer: everyday banking
Company: Absa Group
Thatayaone Matolong is the chief information officer: everyday banking at Absa Group, a role held since 2022. Before stepping into his current role, Thatayaone served as the ME: RBB channels, infra and change for Absa Group.
Thatayaone has an extensive history with the organisation, previously serving as its chief information officer: relationship banking and in transformation change.
During the Barclays Africa Group era, he held several roles, including chief information officer: wealth, investment management and insurance, head of IT: enterprise services and head of RBB IT: physical distribution.
Earlier in his career, Thatayaone held senior IT and engineering positions at the City of Johannesburg and Unilever. Thatayaone holds a master's in business administration and a post diploma in business administration from GIBS Business School.
He also holds an industrial engineering honours degree from the University of Pretoria and a mechanical engineering degree from the University of Cape Town.
Additionally, Thatayaone completed an advanced management programme at Harvard Business School Executive Education.
Work:
2022 – Present: chief information officer: everyday banking, Absa Group
2021 – 2022: ME: RBB channels, infra & change, Absa Group
2018 – 2020: chief information officer: relationship banking, Absa Group
2016 – 2018: chief information officer: wealth, investment management and insurance, Barclays Africa Group
2016 – 2016: DevOps transformation leader, City of Johannesburg
2015 – 2015: head of IT: enterprise services, Barclays Africa Group
2013 – 2014: head of RBB IT: physical distribution, Barclays Africa Group
2010 – 2012: transformation change, Absa
2003 – 2008: operations and engineering manager, Unilever
Education:
2023: Advanced management programme, Harvard Business School Executive Education
2014: Master's in business administration, GIBS Business School
2001: Honours in industrial engineering, University of Pretoria
1998: Mechanical engineering, University of Cape Town
About company: Absa Group is a major multinational financial services conglomerate headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa. Listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, it operates primarily across 12 African countries, providing personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, credit cards, and wealth management.
