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.