Strategic Risks Manager Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank

Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank is presently hiring suitably qualified & experienced candidate for the role of Strategic Risks Manager. The candidate will be responsible to review strategic risk policies/processes, recommend improvements, overseeing strategic risk platforms and manage systems development, enhancements or changes, implementing and supporting the implementation of new systems from a strategic risk perspective in order to optimise resource utilisation, minimise associated costs and improve workflow/productivity.

Responsibilities of Strategic Risks Manager

• Strategic Risk, Reputation Risk and other Pillar 2 Risks: Formalise management of strategic risk and reputation risk (including other Pillar 2 risks) through establishment of separate policies and help establish monitoring mechanism in order to maintain and improve the systems.
• Data Management Framework: Act as back up for data management function maintaining the required data on a monthly basis, independently review monthly data extracted and stored as part of Data Management Function to ensure compliance with the Data Management Functions.
• Credit Risk Systems Implementation / Enhancement: Liaise with IT and other business support and business units to ensure system changes / implementation from credit risk perspective is undertaken and completed on a timely basis (Change Initiation, SOW, BRD, UAT, sign-off etc.)
• Stress Testing: Conduct stress testing for non UAE operations using tools implemented in Head Office and support in other analysis for these subsidiaries in order to identify & recommend improvement areas.
• RAROC and Other Risk Analytics: Design, run and maintain RAROC and other dashboards for ensuring maintenance and use of best practices, industry benchmarks, credit policy compliance and portfolio quality standards.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to contribute to organisational and departmental change initiatives, programmes and projects taking into account best practice and standards in the business environment.
• Customer Service: Demonstrate bank’s Promise and apply the ADCB Service Standards to deliver Bank’s required levels of service.

Requirements of Strategic Risks Manager

The requirements for the role of Strategic Risk Manager are as under:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or Computer Science .
• At least 5 years of experience in Credit Risk reporting with at least 3 years of experience in information technology.
• Advanced training in programming languages (SQL, Access, VBA).

Skills & Knowledge Desired

• UAE regulatory reporting standards.
• Core banking products (CIBG, Retail Banking Group (RBG), Treasury).
• Accounting concepts and standards.
• Advanced programming language skills such as SQL, Access, VBA.
• Bank IT support systems / reporting systems knowledge (CAD, Flexcube, FCC, FCR, FCI, WB Core Banking systems, Murex).
• Banking products / services knowledge (Corporate, SME).
• Business analytics (SQL, SPSS).
• Business Banking workflows / credit risk processes.
• Business performance monitoring (KPI, KRI, risk appetite)
• Credit MIS design and review (portfolio data, scoring, prediction).
• MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access).
• Presentation software (Micro Strategy, Tableau, PowerPoint).

Chapter Executive Manager Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank