Finance Manager - RBWM Segments

Emirates Islamic is a leading financial institution in the United Arab Emirates, committed to providing innovative banking solutions while upholding the highest standards of ethics and integrity. Our work culture values collaboration, excellence, and continuous improvement in delivering exceptional services to our customers. We are currently seeking a Finance Manager for RBWM Segments to join our dynamic team.

As part of the RBWM Finance Unit, the Finance Manager will play a crucial role in managing all finance-related activities for the Retail Banking and Wealth Management (RBWM) business segment. This includes driving performance, planning & budgeting, and financial reporting & controls within EI. The successful candidate will collaborate with Segment Heads to provide insightful financial support for key decision-making processes, ensuring that financial policies and control frameworks are consistently applied across all segments within the CWM business units.

Key responsibilities of the Finance Manager include working closely with Segment teams to ensure relevant management information is produced to aid decision-making, resolving data issues, developing medium-term strategies covering opportunities and risks, establishing planning frameworks linked to strategies, aligning Product and Segment revenues, conducting robust challenge processes for business cases and post-implementation reviews of investments spends. Additionally, the Finance Manager will establish clear cost analysis frameworks across various levels within the Segment Direct Costs.

The ideal candidate for this role should be a qualified accountant or hold an MBA with specialization in Finance, with 8-12 years of post-qualification experience in finance functions of large banks involving exposure to retail banking. Strong knowledge of finance concepts, business performance management, planning skills, excellent written and oral communication abilities are essential for this position. If you are passionate about driving strategic financial decisions within a dynamic banking environment while contributing to organizational growth and success, we invite you to apply for the Finance Manager - RBWM Segments position at Emirates Islamic. This role is suitable for experienced finance professionals looking to make a significant impact in the banking industry.

• Between 8-12 years of post-qualification experience in the Finance function of a large bank with exposure to business finance
• Experience in retail banking
• Experience in financial reporting and controls
• Qualified accountant or MBA with specialization in Finance
• Thorough understanding of finance concepts and business performance management
• Strong written and oral communication skills

• Work closely with key stakeholders within the Segment teams to ensure relevant management information is produced
• Research and resolve data issues, answer finance related queries from Business Heads & other stakeholders
• Develop a robust medium-term strategy covering key opportunities and risks
• Establish planning framework linking to strategy for accurate multi-year rolling forecasts

• Finance support
• Analytics
• Financial policies and control framework
• Management information production
• Data issue resolution

Seniority Level: Middle Management

• [Segment Heads, AVP-Business Finance CWM]

Job Functions: Finance

• Business Performance Management
• Planning

Industries : Banking

• Retail Banking
• Financial Services