Associate Vice President, Wholesale Bank Finance at Emirates

The job holder is part of the senior management team responsible for providing insightful Finance support to the corporate, institutional and investment banking business in key tactical and strategic decision making. The job holder will lead a team of senior business analysts in ensuring that Group financial policies and control framework are consistently applied across these business units and subsidiaries.

Main Tasks:

• Work closely with key stakeholders within the business (segment heads and product heads) to ensure that management information produced remains relevant and aids decision making.
• Work closely with the Head of Finance, WB, COO WB and business heads in developing a robust and ambitious medium-term strategy covering all key opportunities and risks.
• Establish a planning framework which links to the medium-term strategy and enables modeling of key drivers of revenues and costs thereby facilitating accurate multi-year rolling forecasts.
• Establish and maintain a robust challenge process for business cases submitted by the business units while at the same time ensuring efficient response times.
• Establish and maintain a robust post implementation review process for all material investments spends within the business
• Establish a framework for providing a clear and transparent analysis of costs across various levels within the business.
• Establish a process for business unit heads to fully understand and challenge costs – both internally and externally.
• Maintain close oversight on the Finance function within the subsidiaries to ensure that the necessary financial controls are maintained at all times
• Pro-actively engage with the company executive management to identify and close potential control gaps.

Education, Experience, Knowledge & Skills:

• A qualified accountant (IS A MUST)
• Between 10-15 years of post-qualification experience in the Finance function of a large bank with exposure to business finance
• Exposure to Wholesale Banking
• A thorough understanding of finance concepts, business performance management and planning. Strong written and oral communication skills and ability to interact at senior management levels. Leadership skills to lead a team of senior analysts
• Ability to work independently under pressure with minimal supervision. Self starter with ability to motivate the team and influence decisions at senior levels.