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Specialist- Business Finance - Coverage (Emiratised Role)

Full time at First Abu Dhabi Bank in UAE
Posted on February 5, 2025

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Company Description Join the UAE’s largest bank and one of the world’s largest and safest financial institutions. Our focus is to create value for our employees, customers, shareholders, and communities to grow through differentiation, agility, and innovation. We are looking for top talent and your success is our success. Accelerate your growth as you help us reach our goals and advance your career. Be ready to make your mark at a top company, in an exciting and dynamic industry. Job Description The CCB & IB Business Finance team comprises individual functions globally supporting the following products - Global Corporate Finance, Transaction Banking, Global Markets along with the Coverage function. The unit falls under the Group Finance department and reports to the CFO, CIB & International. Key priorities of this role include:

  1. Act as a trusted Finance advisor on business performance & strategic issues specific to the business.
  2. Provide world-class financial reporting & support services, adding value through providing professional, independent & objective financial advice, which assists in the achievement of business objectives whilst complying with Group policies and standards, and external statutory obligations.
  3. Production of financial & management accounting reporting statements for the functional area of responsibility in line with Group reporting standards, whilst maintaining a robust control environment.
The IB Business Finance function is responsible for all finance matters specific to the Investment Banking business including, but not limited to; Performance, Control, Forecasting, Budgeting & Strategy. In addition, the function provides a key support role to other Group Finance functions; Treasury, Central FP&A, Tax as well as Financial & Regulatory Reporting. KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES: This section shall not be customized to reflect accountabilities which may be unique to one role. Please use Section 5 to capture any accountabilities specific to the role which are over and above those mentioned in this section. Generic Accountability Business Partnering
  • Promote the organization’s values and ethics in all activities within the team to support the establishment of a value-driven culture within the bank.
Policies, Systems, Processes & Procedures
  • Assist in obtaining Data and implementing controls as part of tactical and strategic solutions for current time-consuming processes, with an objective to enhance governance, accuracy, and efficiency of the output for financial & management reporting.
Continuous Improvement
  • Participate in the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement and sustainability of systems, processes, and practices considering global standards, productivity improvement, and cost reduction.
Reporting
  • Assist in current processes to facilitate management and financial reporting and analysis.
Specific Accountability
  • Support functional VP & SVP in relation to Investment Banking Financial, New Product Approvals, AOV/Financial Control.
  • Assist with finance-related projects/analysis within Corporate and Investment Banking Finance unit.
  • Contribute towards and ensure that Finance acts as a key business partner for the Coverage business and trusted advisor on business performance and strategic issues, helping to drive the business forward.
  • Provide key inputs where necessary across business management forums; MIS reviews as well as contribute towards value-added commentary and insight specific to Coverage encompassing CIB products where necessary.
  • Assist with periodic segment/sector analysis, business, and customer reviews.
  • Perform calculations and computation of Commercial Banking Business & RM Incentives.
  • Contribute towards the development & rollout of Customer/Segment MIS to support IB globally.
  • Comprehensive P&L analysis including detailed analysis and interpretation of daily, weekly & monthly performance of Coverage.
  • Support the team with internal audit to ensure a zero unsatisfactory audit environment.
  • Become an expert on Group Finance systems (Power BI, OBIEE, One Sumix, and T24).
  • Support the annual BCP for Corporate & Investment Banking – Finance unit.
Qualifications Minimum Qualification
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering / Accounting / Finance.
Minimum Experience
  • Knowledge of capital markets and financial market products.
  • Ability to navigate and work with large volumes of data efficiently (Excel Macros, VBA scripting).
  • Basic accounting knowledge.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Enthusiastic and curious to learn.
  • Proven ability in liaising & dealing with Business, Enablement functions, Auditors & other internal customers.
  • Excellent communication skills with a high degree of personal integrity who can deliver under pressure.
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