About the Role
If you’re looking for further opportunities to develop your career, take the next step in fulfilling your potential right here. The Marketing Manager - Business Planning and Governance provides operational support to marketing teams, represents marketing at cost governance forums, and manages vendor engagements. This role requires strong financial analysis, governance expertise, stakeholder management, and the ability to control the marketing framework, business planning, and audit controls.
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Role Responsibilities
Lead marketing finance, governance, performance management, and vendor operations for UAE Marketing. Ensure budgets are planned and controlled effectively, spending delivers business and brand value, and activities comply with Group, regulatory, and risk requirements.
Key responsibilities include:
- Managing Finance Resource Planning submissions, budget allocation, phasing, forecasting, accruals, and financial reconciliations.
- Monitoring expenditure, improving cost discipline, and providing transparent reporting to stakeholders.
- Acting as the finance and operations contact for Wealth and Personal Banking marketing teams, including providing Fusion support.
- Leading regulatory assessments and maintaining effective risk, compliance, and control frameworks.
- Managing audits, assurance reviews, Helios actions, and dispensations through timely resolution.
- Partnering with Compliance, Legal, Risk, Retail, Customer Information Management, Investments, and Wealth Solution Products and Digital teams.
- Tracking marketing performance and budget effectiveness against business and brand outcomes.
- Representing Marketing in cost governance forums across the UAE, region, and Group.
- Overseeing vendor contracts, renewals, negotiations, performance, and procurement requirements.
Role Requirements
- In-depth experience in marketing operations, finance, and governance.
- Marketing function planning and operational expertise.
- Strong financial and analytical capability - Expert knowledge of numbers, analysis, budget planning, reporting, management information, and function presentations.
- Advanced technical and organizational skills - High proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint, combined with strong organization, self-drive, and attention to detail.
- Communication, relationship management, and integrity.
- Stakeholder-management skills, with a high level of personal integrity aligned with organizational values.
- A graduation degree is essential for obtaining a UAE 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).
You’ll achieve more as we are committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected, and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working, and opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment.
We believe diversity brings benefits for our customers, our business, and our people. Different ideas and perspectives help us innovate, manage risk, and grow the business in a sustainable way.
