Senior Risk Solution Delivery Manager

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Senior Risk Solution Delivery Manager to oversee and manage risk management projects. This role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams and a strong understanding of banking domain practices. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience in managing projects, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to budget constraints. This position offers a competitive salary and an engaging work environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Banking Domain.
• Proven ability to manage projects within scope, time, and budget.
• Experience in risk management processes.

Responsibilities

• Oversee project planning, organization, and execution.
• Ensure adherence to ADIB IT processes and procedures.
• Deliver on-time project completion within budget.

Skills

Banking Domain experience

Project management

Risk management

Cross-functional collaboration

Documentation compliance

Job description

Senior Risk Solution Delivery Manager

Location: Abu Dhabi

Role Purpose:

1. Responsible for planning, organizing, and directing the completion of specific projects for an organization while ensuring these projects are on time, on budget, and within scope.
2. Work with cross‑functional teams to develop and document a common understanding of project requirements.
3. Manage Projects and Major tasks rollout in Risk Management sector, coordinate with vendors, business users and other stakeholders to articulate and document business requirements, change requests, Data Gap Resolution Strategy and Data Feeder module design and development required for Risk management projects from various banking source systems.
4. Manage projects within agreed governance structures and processes, to ensure consistency of approach and efficient use of resources.
5. Define the projects KPIs and measure them throughout the project lifecycle.
6. Determine how changing business needs will affect existing systems.
7. Work directly with business units to develop user requirements and report specifications.
8. Articulate and document business requirements for projects, change requests etc.
9. Manage vendor service level and quality of development.
10. Coordinate between project and business teams during the execution of projects and tasks.
11. Provide business with required technical support, assessments, and reports.
12. Propose technical recommendations and improvements.
13. Mitigate risks and close audit points if any on the applications and processes.
14. Manage multiple initiatives and track projects/BAU requests/CRs to closure.
15. Closely monitor incident tickets and problem tickets and close them before the breach of SLA.
16. Understand the latest technology trends and provide improvement suggestions in the products.
17. Review vendor proposals and provide feedback to ensure the completeness of the scope and quality.
18. Provide periodic reports and monthly updates on the ongoing initiatives to business and PMO.
19. Follow up with service teams/vendors for support issues and respond quickly to service tickets in a timely manner.
20. Facilitate and UAT of projects, CRs by adhering to quality control policies and guidelines.
21. Support “go‑live” and post “go‑live” activities for projects and any releases to production.

Key Accountabilities of the role

• Deliver IT projects and tasks assigned for the agreed scoped business requirements, within planned budget, and planned time.
• Work with cross‑functional teams to develop and document a common understanding of project requirements.
• Determine how changing business needs will affect existing systems.
• Comply with ADIB IT processes, and procedures.
• Ensure business continuity by conducting periodic system health checks, DR rehearsals, security updates, technology updates, backups, hardware maintenance, software maintenance, license maintenance, and technical design improvements to assigned systems.
• Support requests of information, dashboards, MBLs and ad‑hoc reports related to assigned systems.
• Maintain the service level of vendor support and quality of development.
• Improve awareness and keep knowledge up‑to‑date about supported systems and related IT technology solutions.

Communication

• Attend all the team meetings, one‑to‑one meetings to maintain a high level of communication culture.
• Respond timely to email and tasks assigned, and diligently follow up with various stakeholders.
• Prepare task status reports and submit to stakeholders on a timely basis.

Documentation / Process Ownership

• The incumbent is responsible for complying with ADIB documentation and process standards that are defined by SDLC.

Information Security

• Maintain information security related to ADIB throughout the period of employment.
• Report any potential or actual risks or incidents affecting the security of information to the helpdesk.

Specialist Skills / Technical Knowledge Required for this role

• 8+ years of Banking Domain experience
• Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
• Ensure that all projects are delivered on‑time, within scope and within budget
• Develop project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
• Ensure resource availability and allocation
• Develop a detailed project plan to track progress
• Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs
• Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
• Report and escalate to management as needed
• Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks
• Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation