The role is responsible for managing delivery of Data Validation & Assessment activities under the direction of the SVP & Head of Data Validation & Assessment. The role provides VP-level oversight over independent validation and assessment of Critical Data Elements, regulatory reports, and management reports, including validation planning, evidence review, reconciliation assessment, control evidence challenge, findings governance, stakeholder coordination, and escalation. The role supports both the initial CDE-focused mandate and the end-state periodic validation mandate for in-scope regulatory and management reports through a BCBS 239 lens.
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Key Responsibilities
- Support the SVP & Head of Data Validation & Assessment in translating the approved DVA mandate into validation plans, validation schedules, operating routines, evidence requirements, and governance reporting.
- Coordinate delivery of assigned CDE validation and report validation activities, ensuring timely completion, quality review, and escalation of key issues.
- Oversee independent validation of CDE identification, scoring, prioritization, documentation, ownership assignment, governance evidence, and metadata records.
- Manage validation of assigned regulatory and management reports against agreed sources, systems of record, approved datamarts, reconciliations, report definitions, movements, adjustments, coverage, units, assumptions, and approvals.
- Apply DVA validation methodology, minimum evidence requirements, validation criteria, checklists, and pass/conditional pass/fail outcome definitions consistently across assigned work.
- Identify, document and escalate material discrepancies, unexplained movements, CDE governance gaps, control weaknesses, recurring data issues, and delayed remediation.
- Guide AVP and supporting team members in completing validation activities, evidence review, working papers, follow-ups, and draft conclusions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Risk, Data or Information Systems, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, or a related discipline.
- 10+ years of banking experience, including exposure across banking operations, data domains, reporting, risk, finance, audit, data governance, or control environments.
- Strong experience in data validation, reporting validation, CDE governance, risk data aggregation, BCBS 239, regulatory reporting controls, and finance/risk reporting controls.
- Ability to review evidence, challenge reconciliation outputs, assess control evidence, document findings, and determine whether issues require escalation.
- Strong stakeholder coordination, written communication, team guidance, and issue-management skills.
Preferred / Beneficial
- Master’s degree or relevant professional qualification in banking, risk, audit, finance, or data management.
Skills
- Data Validation
- Regulatory Reporting Validation
- BCBS 239
- Risk Data Aggregation
- Data Governance
- Stakeholder Management
- Issue Management
- Internal Audit Readiness
Location
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
