About the Role
The purpose of this short-term assignment is to provide dedicated finance support, reporting, analysis, and insight for MENAT CIB Lending and Capital. The role will strengthen performance management through accurate and timely management information, execution of financial planning, forecasting and stress-testing processes, analysis of business drivers, and clear identification of risks, opportunities, and management actions. Working closely with Regional SPST, ALCM, Risk, Country Finance, Global CIB Finance, and Asia CIB Finance, the role holder will provide an integrated view of lending profitability, balance-sheet deployment, risk-weighted assets, capital consumption, and returns.
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What You’ll Do
Performance Reporting and Insight
- Produce accurate and timely monthly Lending and Capital performance reports covering revenue, costs, assets, funded and unfunded balances, risk-weighted assets, capital usage, returns, and executive commentary.
- Analyse Lending and ESG profitability, pricing, margins, impairments, capital efficiency, and returns, translating complex financial movements into clear insights and recommended management actions.
- Support the digital and simplification Agenda.
Planning, Forecasting and Scenarios
- Coordinate and consolidate financial planning, forecasting, and stress or scenario submissions, ensuring that inputs are complete, consistent, and delivered within agreed deadlines.
- Challenge planning and forecasting assumptions, analyse movements against plan and prior periods, and provide clear explanations of key performance drivers.
Business Partnering, Balance Sheet, and Capital
- Provide an objective finance view of performance, plans, risks, and opportunities to support decision-making across the MENAT CIB Lending and Capital portfolio.
- Support balance-sheet, liquidity, and capital discussions across Business Finance, SPST, ALCM, Risk, Country Finance, and relevant business stakeholders.
- Provide insight to support decisions on pricing, portfolio actions, balance-sheet deployment, and capital efficiency.
Stakeholder Relationships and Team Leadership
- Build effective working relationships with Lending and product teams, Country and Regional CIB Finance, Global and Asia CIB Finance, offshore delivery teams, and other relevant stakeholders.
- Lead and coordinate a small team of GFO onshore resources, prioritising activities to deliver focused, value-added, and insightful finance support rather than ad-hoc management information.
- Develop specialist analytical capabilities within the team through effective performance management, coaching, knowledge sharing, and support for the company’s diversity and inclusion standards.
Controls, Risk and Governance
- Maintain robust controls, reconciliations, data-quality checks, and audit trails for all submissions and management information, ensuring processes are transparent, accurate, and auditable.
- Demonstrate leadership on regulatory, compliance, and operational-risk matters by identifying, assessing, mitigating, and reporting risks in line with applicable company requirements.
Experience, Knowledge and Skills
- A graduation degree is essential for obtaining a visa and work permit. If your university certificate is from outside the UAE, up-to-date attestations and equivalency are also mandatory (Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications Issued Outside The UAE).
- A university degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business or a related discipline; a recognised accounting or finance qualification is desirable.
- Relevant experience in business finance, financial planning and analysis, lending finance, treasury, capital, or banking performance management.
- Strong understanding of lending economics, balance-sheet management, capital, risk-weighted assets, profitability, and performance drivers.
- Experience producing accurate management information, financial analysis, planning, forecasting, and scenario submissions for senior stakeholders.
- Strong analytical, spreadsheet, presentation, and communication skills, with the ability to translate complex financial information into clear insights and recommendations.
- Proven ability to manage stakeholders and teams, maintain robust controls and governance, meet tight deadlines, identify risks and support effective decision-making in a regulated environment.
Benefits
- The company is committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected, and their opinions count.
- The workplace supports continuous professional development, flexible working, and opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment.
