Specialist- Business Planning & Data Management

Company Description

Looking to join the #1 bank in the UAE and one of the most prestigious in the region? We're looking for professionals who are driven, skilled, and ready to take on new challenges. Together, we can achieve our goals, making a lasting impact on both our company and the industry as a whole.

Join us and leave your mark on the industry. Let's work together to achieve great things and unlock new possibilities for our employees, customers, and communities.

Job Description

This role holder is mainly responsible for the following:

• Assisting in forming, implementation and execution of business planning & data management for FAB-Islamic
• Manage the company’s management reporting process including the development, communication and implementation of management reporting requirements and timetables that align with Group management reporting requirements to ensure efficiency and accuracy.
• Support & develop user friendly MIS related (both Assets and Liabilities) to products, Branches, Sales.
• Responsible for FAB-Islamic incentive calculation & payout and amending the incentives policy on a yearly basis in alignment with Group.
• Co-ordinate with SALAMA and our group insurance team for customer’s Takaful life insurance, premium & claims.
• Design and deliver adhoc performance reporting and analytics for a range of business requirements focused on the key drivers of value in the organization.
• Co-ordinate with group business management team for all kinds of reporting purpose.
• Co-ordinating with business, support & FCD team in terms of finalizing the budgets, planning, other financial requirements & to support any task fulfilment.
• Prepare performance appraisal scorecard for higher management staff’s.

Generic Accountability

• Develop, manage agreed company metrics and key performance criteria linked to strategy and business plans to ensure appropriate metrics are included within Management reporting to support decision making.
• Prepare monthly FAB-Islamic incentive calculation & payout and amending the incentives policy on a yearly basis in alignment with Group.
• Monitor the complete business related MIS on a daily, weekly & monthly basis for FAB-Islamic
• Prepare monthly HF Life Takaful Fee deduction report for FAB-Islamic Mortgage Customers.
• Review and challenge business performance in relation to forecast plans and suggest improvements or opportunities for FAB-Islamic.
• Manage the production of accurate and high quality data management, consolidated reporting in required timeframes, including both routine and ad hoc reporting, and ensuring that these anticipate the emerging needs of a rapidly changing business.
• Support in exploring the potential of FAB-Islamic customers from various dimensions, harnessing through the existing customer base for the cross-sell activities in order to increase the customer product holding and profitability.
• Develop and produce reporting analytics to clearly identify key trends or issues in the company that necessitate further analysis and discussion.
• Engaging and liaising with IT & digitalization teams for continues system enhancement and improvisation of FAB-Islamic platform.

Specific Accountability

• Contribute broadly to strategic and operational priorities, discussions and decisions as a member of the business management team and drive collaboration and sharing of best practice.
• Monitor on a regular basis, the business performance vis-à-vis budgets (Product, Branch Distribution, Sales)
• Co-ordinate with SALAMA and our group insurance team for customer’s Takaful life insurance, premium & claims.
• Co-ordinate with group business management team for all kinds of reporting purpose.
• Co-ordinating with business, support & FCD team in terms of finalizing the budgets, planning, other financial requirements & to support any task fulfilment.
• Prepare performance appraisal scorecard for higher management staff’s.
• Design and deliver ad hoc performance reporting and analytics for a range of business requirements focused on the key drivers of value in the organization.
• Review customer database from time to time and identify cross selling opportunities for increased profitability.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualification

• Masters qualification – Master of Business Administration (MBA) in finance

Minimum Experience

• 4+ year’s relevant experience in the banking & Financial Institutions sector within a fast-paced and dynamic business environment in similar positions of progressively increasing managerial responsibilities in similar functions.
• Ability to think strategically and cope with business complexity in high stress situations.
• Significant exposure to and participation in business and financial planning and decision-making.
• Highly developed analytical and critical thinking skills, with the ability to bring together diverse data and information and form sound judgments and insights.
• Highly developed understanding of commercial realities and well developed business acumen.

Additional Information

Candidate should have hands on experience with Microsoft Excel, Power point and Basic Power BI knowledge