Manager, Business Regulatory Development
Role Overview
Lead First Line accountability, governance, and oversight of regulatory change across Retail, Private Banking, and Wealth businesses.
Ensure regulatory requirements are understood, assessed, translated into business and technology requirements, and implemented on agreed timelines.
Act as an interface among the Business, First Line Risk and Control, Compliance, Technology/IT, and Transformation functions.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Lead First Line accountability, governance, and oversight of regulatory change across Retail, Private Banking, and Wealth businesses.
Ensure regulatory requirements are understood, assessed, translated into business and technology requirements, and implemented on agreed timelines.
Act as an interface among the Business, First Line Risk and Control, Compliance, Technology/IT, and Transformation functions.
Key responsibilities
- Own and coordinate the First Line regulatory change agenda across Retail, Private Banking, and Wealth.
- Translate regulatory obligations into business requirements, actions, controls, ownership, and implementation plans.
- Monitor new and amended UAE regulatory requirements relevant to the businesses.
- Lead First Line regulatory gap assessments and remediation plans.
- Establish and maintain a regulatory change governance framework.
- Partner with Transformation and Change the Bank teams to include regulatory requirements in programmes and initiatives.
- Translate regulatory requirements into technology requirements and delivery outcomes with Technology/IT.
- Prepare management information for senior management and governance committees.
- Provide challenge and oversight of implementation, with transparent reporting and escalation.
Requirements and qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, finance, economics, risk, law, or a related discipline.
- At least 5 years of banking or financial services experience; Retail Banking, Private Banking, or Wealth Management experience is preferred.
- At least 2 years in regulatory change, regulatory development, regulatory implementation, or a related discipline.
- Strong understanding of the UAE regulatory landscape and requirements for financial institutions.
- Experience in a First Line business risk and control environment.
- Experience partnering with Compliance on interpretation, applicability, gap assessment, and remediation.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
Preferred qualification
- A relevant regulatory, risk, compliance, project management, or change-management certification is beneficial.
Role skills and domains
- First Line regulatory accountability, regulatory change and implementation, and UAE regulatory knowledge.
- Business risk and control, Retail Banking, Private Banking, Wealth Management, regulatory governance, and oversight.
About the company
First Abu Dhabi Bank describes itself as a major UAE financial institution offering personal and private banking services.
The bank describes career development, learning opportunities, customer focus, and support for Emirati talent.
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