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Posted Date | over 1 year ago |
Location | Dubai |
Discipline | Business Consultancy |
Job Reference | 30718 |
Salary | 0.0 |
Sr. Portfolio & Business Manager
Department Profile
This role holder will be reporting into CIO - Core Banking, MENAT. The HUB Core Banking team is responsible to coordinate Global HUB Core Banking initiatives across all Global Business & Functions in the region.
The role also as Business Manager (BM) is to provide dedicated support and leadership to CIO – Core Banking MENAT. The role holder has the overall responsibility for the governance, control, People, Structure, cost, budget, Charges to Business, Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and overall execution of the RBWM Technology vision.
Job Profile
The Portfolio & Business Manager role has responsibility to manage a huge portfolio and delivery of large and complex projects that meet business needs. This position involves regular interaction with senior stakeholders and therefore requires strong influencing skills and managerial awareness. In addition to this, the scale of the Core Banking Portfolio across MENAT requires someone with strong organizational and leadership skills, with the ability to empower and delegate tasks to more junior members of staff.
Additional processes include: Cost management including both direct and indirect cost, operational metrics, portfolio Management. People and Location Strategy – develop and execute the MENA resource management, location strategy, capability. The role also implements and enforces standards and compliance to Group and internal controls and assists in keeping track of the costs and budget for UAE.
BM will lead or take ownership of business activities, supporting CIO and Technology Products Heads with non-BAU activities, cyclical work pieces such as Annual Reporting and short term initiatives.
The role expects to possess knowledge of financial budgeting, strategic planning, communication, and people management processes in the context of the business area they are located in but are not expected to have specific product knowledge relating to the business or function in which they are located.
Oversight and review of Tech Charges to MENAT Core Banking (circa $25M) ensuring that Business and Country COOs have clear visibility to the overall Tech charges, and help address any disputed charges.
Role Purpose
This position is responsible for project related decisions and must understand the business objectives for their assigned programmes.
The role holder is responsible for the overall set of wide ranging capabilities which include:
The BM has four main pillars of responsibilities in his/her remit:
Single Point of Contact for MENAT COO – Core Banking Team
Operational Management and Governance
Financial Management
Key Accountabilities
Impact on the Business
· Delivery of program objectives
· Delivery of well planned projects with clear understanding of the objectives and scope, efficient use of resources and time
· Use negotiation skills when problems arise to achieve consensus amongst project participant’s/stake holders.
· Provide innovative solutions through new technologies, techniques, and process design
Customers / Stakeholders
· Build strong relationships, adopting a joined up approach, to execute change at pace and with minimum conflict
· Act as escalation point for complex issues.
· Produce and publish effective progress reports for assigned programs to keep management appraised of status, major issues, scope changes, resource changes and milestone achievements or misses.
· Understanding of global and regional business and IT strategies and plans in order to ensure effective consulting is provided to MENAT WPB Technology Teams.
· Define and maintain effective engagement, communication and reporting structures and relationships within the RBWM Tech Teams and RBWM Business to ensure full transparency for IT planning and delivery.
· Assist business partners in identifying and managing risks associated with RBWM technology, manage the overall risks and priorities of the function.
· Manage IT relationships globally, regionally and at country level to ensure regional implementation of IT programs and strategies is in line with business priorities.
IT Sourcing & Vendor Management
Leadership & Teamwork
· Fostering and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders all levels.
· Oversee the completion of projects including planning, assigning, monitoring and reviewing of projects.
· Act as the catalyst to challenge the status quo and seek opportunities for transformation towards re-engineering.
· Facilitate meetings and monitor progress on all actions providing assistance when required to ensure clearance of any issues with minimal impact to project progress.
Preferred Candidate :