Roles and Responsibility

• Responsible for the Risk Management and Governance of Islamic Banking business.
• Support the Saadiq Management in executing business strategy, reinforcing exemplary governance and control.

Strategy

• Work with the COO, Country Teams and Global Islamic Banking Team in developing business strategy in terms of Operational Risk Management, ensuring full alignment with business and functions
• Work with relevant product or segment COOs to ensure that the Operational Risk Framework for Islamic Banking is fully embedded in the structure

Business

• Work with Saadiq Team to increase business efficiency and strengthen operational risk management discipline across geographies
• Ensure the global process standards are enforced in the business across geographies through engaging various stakeholders
• Service Delivery and Operational Excellence: Coordinate and prioritize business operating issues to business heads, including the capability to deliver new products efficiently

Processes

• Work with countries to operationalize policies and procedures
• Develop effective capabilities for Shariah compliance
• Engage stakeholders at the Group and Country level to drive standardization agenda to ensure consistency of policy standards, procedures, process and operating platform

People & Talent

• Support Islamic Banking COO to develop and embed a high performance culture and organisational mindset to effectively embed and communicate Islamic Banking policies and procedures to Group/Countries
• Ensure minimum standards in OR awareness embedding OR responsibilities in respective areas of work

Risk Management

• Drive implementation of Islamic Banking control measures in ORF
• Continuously improve Group Saadiq Risk Management capabilities
• Establish links between PGCs, Group OR and Group Islamic Banking to ensure that priorities are channelled, discussed and addressed.
• Escalate risk issues and enforce the mitigation at Group and Country level.

Governance

• Preparation of Governance Packs
• Control Testing - Determine effectiveness/ineffectiveness of defined key controls
• Drive the root cause analysis discipline
• Perform reviews to ensure that controls are working effectively
• Coordinate Audits
• Track aging of audit findings and ensure periodic follow-up

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s Values and Code of Conduct
• Take personal responsibility for embedding highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct across the bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with respect to, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and Group Code of Conduct

Key stakeholders
Internal

• CEO Islamic Banking
• Regional COOs
• Country Head Operational Risk
• Country Business Heads
• Shariah Advisors
• Group OR
• Business COOs
• PGC

External

• Regulators and other government departments/officials

Our Ideal Candidate

• Must have operational risk background
• Preferred islamic banking knowledge
• Minimum qualification mba/post graduate with over 5 years of banking industry experience

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Good level of understanding of Islamic Banking
• Results driven
• High degree of independence, responsibility and integrity
• Knowledge of quality tools, procurement, and logistics planning
• Tertiary education
• Relevant managerial experience
• Excellent communication capability \xe2\x80\x93 good command of written English
• Ability to work within a multi-function, multi-discipline team environment with strong influencing and stakeholder management skills
• Change agent
• Operational Risk Background

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• In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial, and social wellbeing.
• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
• Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual, and digital learning
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