Senior Platform Owner

Role Location: Chennai, India

COMPANY INTRODUCTION

Emirates NBD is a market leader across the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye) region with a presence in 13 countries, serving over 20 million customers. The Emirates NBD Group has a total of 853 branches and 4,213 ATMs / SDMs. Emirates NBD is the leading financial services brand in the UAE with a Brand value of USD 3.89 billion.

At the bank, we serve our customers and help them realise their financial objectives through a range of banking products and services including retail banking, corporate & institutional banking, Islamic banking, investment banking, private banking, asset management, global markets and treasury, and brokerage operations.

We are a key participant in the global digital banking industry, with 97% of all financial transactions and requests conducted outside of our branches. We also operate Liv, the lifestyle digital bank by Emirates NBD. With close to half a million users, it continues to be the fastest-growing digital bank in the region.

The

Senior Platform Owner - Risk and Compliance

is responsible for delivering change initiatives for the respective business function and ensuring platform governance. This includes managing multiple product vendors and cross-functional teams within IT and Business functions. This role primarily involves managing AML (Anti-Money Laundering) and Sanctions applications to enhance the platform's efficiency, security, and scalability.

Key Responsibilities: Perform appropriate level of stakeholder management across IT and clients. Serve as highest project internal escalation level. Ensure projects are aligned to and deliver the Business objectives. Lead the implementation and enhancement of compliance systems, ensuring alignment with business objectives and regulatory requirements Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, in accordance with defined quality management practices, to achieve common objectives. Ensure maintaining data confidentiality. Perform regular risk assessments and audits of compliance systems to identify potential vulnerabilities and implement corrective actions. Contribute to the yearly IT Roadmap ensuring that project costs and estimates are as accurate as possible. Work with Business representative to ensure alignment of delivery with Business demand Ensuring value added proposition in strategic vendor partnerships and aligning vendor product / industry roadmap of platforms with the business strategy thus enabling an effective business growth.

Key Requirements: Minimum 8-10 years of experience in delivering changes across compliance domains (AML and Sanctions). Graduate / Postgraduate in related degree of education (Computer Science, Finance). Having a solid understanding of general banking and business is essential to steer implementations. Having a grasp on the business requirements for the underlying backend, along with current regulatory topics and responsibilities, is highly preferred. Experience in applying various implementation and project management methodologies is another important aspect. Experience in capacity planning, vendor management, and delivery management using cross-functional teams is preferred. These skills are vital for ensuring that we can handle our workload effectively and collaborate seamlessly with different teams and vendors. Hands-on experience of Fircosoft products (from LNRS) and AML solutions like Fiserv will be an added advantage. Strong experience in integrating compliance platforms with various other banking systems would be preferred. Excellent hands-on experience in driving change initiatives in an agile way would be preferred. Strong team management skills.

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