AVP - Trade & Treasury Technologies (Expats)

Job Title: AVP - Trade & Treasury Technologies

Location: Dubai

Reporting To: VP - Head of Enterprise Core Business Technologies

Industry: Financial Services

Job Summary:

We are seeking a dynamic and visionary AVP - Advanced Analytics Technologies aligning IT and Business strategy to ensure that Technology is seen as an enabler to fulfill Business Objectives. To lead Trade & Treasury Platforms portfolio and ensure timely completion of Projects initiatives / Tasks within approved budget in order to meet strategic Technology Road map.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for end-to-end management of Trade, Treasury, Limits Management platforms, including vendor coordination, stakeholder engagement, regulator liaison, and timely implementation of changes, with secondary responsibility of managing associated Trade & Treasury platforms as assigned.
• To provide adequate support, guidance & motivation to the team members in order to ensure the achievement of assigned projects.
• Review team performance and deliverables in line with the approved KPIs to ensure meeting desired objectives
• Coach, train and develop team skills by identifying training needs and assign appropriate learning platform to the team.
• To meet with stakeholders to discuss subject related to the projects/CR and provide them with necessary suggestions & recommendations.
• To review and provide regular Portfolio status reports in order to update the management regarding status of current project initiatives and/or on the tasks assigned.
• Ensure all assigned tasks and projects are executed within the approved policies, procedures and SLA of the department.
• Manage Managed Services Provider, track their KPIs, contract renewal etc.
• Responsible to provide audit input requirements, close all assigned audit observations and provide closing evidence related to your area to IT-QA team or Audit team in a timely manner.

Education:

• Bachelors degree in IT / Business.
• Masters degree will be an added advantage

Experience:

• Min 12+ years in Information Technology
• Must have domain knowledge in Treasury (FX, MM, Bonds, Derivatives) and Trade products and hands on experience in implementing banking applications in these domains

Technical Competencies:

• Budgeting and Planning
• IT Business Relationship Management
• Planning and Organizing
• Relationship Management
• IT Governance
• Management of Vendors / Alliances
• System Design and Development