About the Role / About the Job
This role is responsible for overseeing the framework for a healthy working relationship between the company and its employees. This includes the implementation of measures to improve engagement, retention, and heightened performance. The maintenance of sound corporate governance around discipline is also a key responsibility.
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Key Accountabilities:
- Maintain and continuously enhance the HR Governance Framework, ensuring alignment with regulatory, risk, and corporate governance requirements.
- Monitor effectiveness of HR controls and governance arrangements across all HR functions.
- Coordinate governance reviews and assessments to identify gaps, weaknesses, and improvement opportunities.
- Ensure governance documentation remains current, complete, and fit for purpose.
- Track and monitor closure of governance actions arising from audits, reviews, regulatory inspections, and risk assessments.
- Act as HR's Operational Risk Coordinator and primary liaison with Enterprise Risk Management.
- Lead preparation and submission of HR Risk and Control Self-Assessments (RCSA).
- Identify, assess, and monitor people-related operational risks.
- Maintain HR risk registers and monitor mitigation plans.
- Track Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) and control effectiveness metrics.
- Prepare HR operational risk reports for executive governance committees.
- Support incident management, root cause analysis, and remedial action plans relating to HR risk events.
- Coordinate and oversee HR-related regulatory reporting obligations to the Central Bank of the UAE and other regulatory authorities.
- Ensure timely, accurate, and complete submission of all people-related regulatory returns.
- Monitor regulatory developments impacting HR, remuneration, Emiratisation, governance, and workforce management.
- Perform gap assessments against new regulatory requirements and recommend implementation actions.
- Support regulatory inspections, requests for information, and thematic reviews.
- Support governance activities relating to remuneration frameworks, incentive schemes, and employee reward programmes.
- Lead annual Material Risk Taker (MRT) identification and governance review processes.
- Support preparation of remuneration governance assessments and regulatory remuneration reviews.
- Monitor adherence to approved remuneration policies and governance standards.
- Coordinate governance oversight for annual salary and bonus review cycles.
- Manage the HR policy governance framework.
- Coordinate policy development, review cycles, stakeholder consultation, and approvals.
- Monitor policy exceptions, breaches, and compliance trends.
- Ensure periodic policy attestations are completed and reported.
- Maintain a central repository of HR policies, standards, and governance documentation.
- Prepare high-quality governance reports, dashboards, and management information for senior stakeholders.
- Present findings, risks, trends, and recommendations to senior stakeholders.
- Coordinate HR responses to Internal Audit, Compliance Reviews, and Regulatory Assessments.
- Manage closure of audit findings and management actions.
- Track overdue actions and provide escalation where necessary.
- Support control testing and assurance activities across HR.
- Emiratisation Governance:
- Monitor compliance with CBUAE Emiratisation requirements.
- Track Emiratisation performance and regulatory obligations.
- Coordinate governance reviews, corrective actions, and reporting.
- Support submissions relating to Emiratisation targets and workforce nationalisation initiatives.
- Drive governance maturity and continuous improvement initiatives across HR.
- Implement governance best practices and industry standards.
- Leverage data analytics and technology solutions to strengthen governance monitoring and reporting.
- Support automation of governance, risk, and compliance processes.
- Champion the use of data, automation, and AI-enabled governance solutions to improve control effectiveness, enhance regulatory reporting accuracy, strengthen risk monitoring, and increase transparency across HR governance processes.
- Proactively identify emerging workforce, conduct, technology, data privacy, and AI-related people risks and ensure appropriate governance and control mechanisms are implemented.
Requirements
- Experience & Academic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Risk Management, Finance, Law, or related discipline.
- Professional qualifications such as CIPD, GRCP, IRM, Compliance Certification, or Risk Management Certification are desirable.
- Minimum 5 years of experience within Human Resources, Operational Risk, Governance, Compliance, or Regulatory Reporting.
- Experience within banking or financial services is preferred.
- Strong knowledge of CBUAE regulations, UAE Labour Law, Corporate Governance standards, Risk Management frameworks, Remuneration Governance practices, and Operational Risk methodologies is desirable.
- Experience preparing Board, Committee, and regulatory papers.
