Senior Manager & RBG, PBG & ADIB Securities Business Finance

ADIB Group; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider is seeking a Senior Manager for their Business Finance team in Abu Dhabi. This role requires leading the end-to-end business planning activities, providing insightful analytics, and managing stakeholder relationships. Candidates should have an MBA or Finance degree and strong analytical skills. The ideal candidate will also have experience in retail banking and advanced skills in MS SQL and Excel. This is a critical role for driving business performance and growth.

Qualifications

• Excellent numerical & analytical skills required for complex data assimilation.
• Good understanding of retail banking products/policies for procedure changes.
• Fluent in Microsoft Excel, Access, and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for end-to-end Business Planning activities including budgets.
• Provide insightful Analytics to drive growth and identify portfolio opportunities.
• Prepare and monitor customer-level profitability and channel productivity.

Skills

Numerical skills

Analytical skills

People management skills

Stakeholder management

Business intelligence usage

Education

MBA / Finance Degree

Tools

MS SQL

SAS

VBA

Business Objects

Job description

Role: Senior Manager - RBG PBG & ADIB Securities Business Finance

Location: Abu Dhabi

Role Purpose

Responsible for end-to-end Business Planning activities including development and monitoring of budgets and plans for businesses products and channels. Performance analysis across all products channels and segment for Retail to senior management in the achievement of the strategic and tactical objectives of the business.

Key Accountabilities of the role

1 Produce Quality Business Analytics

• Provide insightful Analytics to drive growth
• Identify new portfolio opportunities
• Use Business intelligence for optimum customer segmentation
• Develop dashboards for portfolio performance management
• Understand and track/monitor Key Performance Indicators that drive business performance reporting and analytics across functions. Understand how these metrics and measures align and track against overall business strategies goals and objectives.
• To use business and market intelligence (& analytics) to arrive at customer segmentation/ CRM and maximize returns on customer lifecycle value.
• Regular monitoring of performance vs. plan while identifying areas requiring focus.
• Work with other business units to identify key opportunities.
• Define and develop standard dashboards for monitoring business performance (including leading indicators) across segments products and channels

2 Effectively Monitor Portfolio

• To deliver value added analysis commentary and recommendations on business product & channel performance to drive exceptional performance at overall & functional level
• Develop various sub product channel and segment financials
• To prepare monitor and analyze customer level profitability
• Prepare and Monitor channel productivity and profitability
• Product profitability by sub segment to support risk policy discussions

3 Budgeting & Planning Support

• Support Budgeting activities
• Development of planning templates
• Vintage analysis
• Work in coordination with Business Planning teams and product units for budgeting activities by providing segment level KPIs for all retail products.
• Support development of planning models with vintage level data.
• Vintage analysis to support key assumptions during planning cycle.

4 Produce Periodic Portfolio Decks and Product Cubes.

• Assess report requirements
• Development of portfolio decks
• Develop product cubes with cross-sectional data cuts
• Enhance existing templates
• Continuously assess report requirements from all stakeholders including product and sales teams and country teams.
• Publish regular monthly review decks
• Develop product level data cubes with cross-sectional data cuts.
• Enhance data templates based on requirements and feedback.

5 Stakeholder Management

• Maintain key relationship with Country Finance teams
• Ensure conducive team environment is in place
• Support management of relationships with key stakeholders
• Develop and maintain key relationships with Group/ Country Management and the country Finance teams.
• Stakeholder management with key personnel within ADIB. Ensure team spirit and culture of shared ownership.
• Support the management of relationships with key external stakeholders including Associations local regulators other banks suppliers and local industry bodies as required.

6 Controls & Risk

• Act as a backup contact point for Financials-related legal regulatory and compliance matters for Retail Banking
• Identify and drive process improvements without loss of integrity.
• GL monitoring identifying any risks and irregularities in terms of balance movements.
• Ensure that adequate data privacy & information security procedures are followed during generation / transmittal of data for internal /external stakeholders

Specialist Skills / Technical Knowledge Required for this role

• MBA / Finance Degree
• Excellent numerical & analytical skills will be required to obtain prepare assess and assimilate very complex and detailed information
• Good understanding of Retail banking products/ policies/ plans/objectives in order to pro-actively embrace systems/procedure changes within the function Excellent People Management Skills and interpersonal Skills
• Expert skills in MS SQL working knowledge of SAS VBA Business Objects preferred
• Fluent in the use of Microsoft Excel Access and PowerPoint

Previous experience required (if any)

• Prior experience in a similar function or Finance/Business Planning/ Analytics role preferred.

Required Experience:

Senior Manager