Specialist, Risk Management

First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB); Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) in Abu Dhabi seeks a collateral management professional to support the Global Markets and Treasury collateral operations in line with Bank Policies and regulatory requirements.

The role emphasizes validating margin calls, processing settlements, and ensuring timely regulatory reporting. Collaboration with risk, middle office, and finance teams is essential, with a focus on process improvements using Murex as a key enabler.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or economics.
• 1-3 years’ experience in the banking sector in similar positions in the Middle office/Collateral management/Market Risk or Treasury function.
• Experience of having extensively worked on Murex platform for market risk management.
• Knowledge of financial markets and multiple assets classes (Fx, fixed income, equities, commodities).
• Ability to work accurately under pressure to tight deadlines.
• Strong inter-personal skills in order to interact confidently with senior management.

Responsibilities

• Collateral Management, including validation of margin calls, seeking margin from counterparties and responding to their margin calls in a timely manner.
• Ensure valuation statements are sent to all customers as per agreement in the legal documentation.
• Escalate collateral disputes to Head of Middle office and Market Risk Management.
• Perform portfolio reconciliation in a timely manner and highlight valuation issues to Head of Middle Office and Market Risk Management.
• Ensure business operates within the approved bank policy.
• Perform regulatory reporting in a timely manner.
• Own projects pertaining to collateral management and client servicing.
• Review collateral management documentation like CSA/GMRA/IM CTA that comes for MO review.
• Work closely with several teams to achieve the role objective.
• Coordinate with Middle office and Risk Control for daily validation of data, collateral, risk reports etc.
• Collaborate with Market Risk Analytics for risk methodologies and market data.

Skills

Collateral Management

Margin Call Validation

Portfolio Reconciliation

Regulatory Reporting

Market Risk Management

Treasury Operations

Murex Platform

CSA/GMRA/IM CTA Review

Client Servicing

Financial Markets Knowledge

Process Improvement

Stakeholder Management

Risk Control

Product Control

Interpersonal Communication

Working Under Pressure

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance or economics

Tools

Murex Platform

Job description

Job Summary / Introduction

The purpose of the job is to provide comprehensive support in running the collateral management process for Global Markets and Treasury function in compliance with Bank Policies and regulatory guidelines.

Key Responsibilities

Generic Accountability

• Act in consonance with the Group’s vision and mission to facilitate the organizational objectives of growing stronger.
• Ensure the achievement of the bank’s business plans by optimizing risk adjusted performance of Global Markets.
• Provide an assurance to the GCRO through the Head of Market and Liquidity Risk and Head of Market Risk Management that all processes pertaining to Collateral Management for Global Markets and Treasury have been identified & monitored and proper controls are in place to mitigate Operational Risks.

Job Specific Accountabilities

• Collateral Management, which includes validation of margin calls, seeking margin from counterparties and responding to their margin calls in a timely manner.
• Ensure that valuation statements are sent to all customers as per agreement in the legal documentation.
• Ensure all collateral disputes are escalated to the Head of Middle office and Market Risk Management.
• Ensure portfolio reconciliation is performed on timely manner and valuation issues are highlighted to Head of Middle office and Market Risk Management.
• Ensure the business operates within the approved bank policy.
• Ensure all regulatory reporting is performed in timely manner.
• Ownership of projects pertaining to collateral management and Client servicing.
• Review of collateral management documentation like CSA/GMRA/IM CTA that comes for MO review.
• Work closely with several teams to achieve the role objective.
• Middle office and Risk Control – for daily validation of market and static data, collateral, risk reports etc.
• Market Risk Analytics team for risk methodologies, market data etc.-li>
• Group Finance: Product control – active liaising to ensure the correct reflection of risk adjusted returns and accounting is aligned to risk practices.
• Carry out process improvements using Murex as the key systems enabler.

Requirements / Qualifications

Essential Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or economics.
• 1-3 years’ experience in the banking sector in similar positions in the Middle office/Collateral management/Market Risk or Treasury function.
• Experience of having extensively worked on Murex platform for market risk management.
• Knowledge of financial markets and multiple assets classes (Fx, fixed income, equities, commodities).
• Ability to work accurately under pressure to tight deadlines.
• Strong inter-personal skills in order to interact confidently with senior management.

Preferred / Beneficial

• Professional certification like FRM or CFA would be an added advantage.

Skills

• Collateral Management
• Margin Call Validation
• Portfolio Reconciliation
• Regulatory Reporting
• Market Risk Management
• Treasury Operations
• Murex Platform
• CSA / GMRA / IM CTA Documentation Review
• Client Servicing
• Financial Markets Knowledge (FX, Fixed Income, Equities, Commodities)
• Process Improvement
• Stakeholder Management
• Risk Control
• Product Control
• Interpersonal Communication
• Ability to work accurately under pressure to tight deadlines.