Senior Compliance & Monitoring Specialist

Job Purpose

Key Accountabilities

• Compliance and Monitoring:
• Ensure the delivery of Middle Office function that includes third-party creation, maintenance of static data, market data, ratings and sector data, blotter monitoring, and limits management.
• Design and implement regular reporting to concerned departments and to ALCO on breaches to credit, concentration, market and liquidity limits defined by the respective policies, guidelines and authorities.
• Ensure continuous monitoring and reporting on profit-rate, currency and other market risks inherent in the financing, investing, funding and hedging operations of the bank.
• Ensure weekly monitoring of the currency mix of the bank to maintain alignment with the SDR currency basket and report to treasury on deviations from the neutral positions and actions required to address these deviations.
• Ensure all activities pertaining to FPPA's role as Secretariat to ALCO including preparation of the ALCO pack, regular and other agenda items, and follow-up actions.
• Collaborate with the Planning and Analytics unit to undertake detailed review and assessment of the market and liquidity risk profiles including credit quality of the liquid fund’s portfolio, duration mismatch between assets and liabilities, currency mismatch, static and dynamic re-pricing gap analysis, stress testing, sensitivity, etc.
• Develop proficiency and expertise on the systems used for Middle Office and Compliance and ensure adequate maintenance of relevant data.
• Work closely with IMDT Department to (i) enhance the functionality and data input/output of the systems used by Middle Office, (ii) develop/generate reports and dashboards using Business Intelligence (BI) tools such as PowerBI, Web Intelligence, Tableau, QlikView, etc to enhance the regular monitoring and reporting on compliance with limits, (iii) extract and analyze underlying systems data from databases
• Coordinate with other departments within the Finance Complex on data and functionality of Middle Office systems to meet regular and ad-hoc business and compliance requirements.
• Propose enhancements to processes and systems used by compliance and monitoring function and work on hiring and managing consultants, when needed, for this purpose.

Operational Excellence

• Provide technical guidance to the lesser experienced team members and review their work.
• Monitor effective implementation and adherence to the respective financial management policies, procedures and controls so that all relevant procedural requirements are fulfilled.
• Keep abreast with the latest developments, regulations and leading practices in the field and proposes any necessary actions.
• Propose and implement process improvements to increase efficiency, effectiveness and compliance of the related operations.

Academic And Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Financial Analysis, Information Sciences, Data Analysis, or related field. Certification in FRM, PRM or CFA would be preferred.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in middle office, treasury or risk management, data management and analysis or related field.
• Languages: English: Mandatory l Arabic: Preferred l French: Preferred

Skills & Necessary Knowledge

• Building Relationships
• Motivation to Learn and Share
• Passion for Excellence
• Analytical Thinking
• Problem Solving
• Financial Management
• Advanced knowledge of money/currency markets.
• Advanced knowledge of risk management, treasury function, and compliance.

About Application Process

• If you meet the criteria and you are enthusiastic about the role, we would welcome your application.
• To complete the application you would need the following document(s):
• Resume/CV
• Copy of passport
• Academic certificate
• If you are currently an IsDB Regular staff applying for this role and get selected through the competitive selection process; your current contract type and other terms and conditions will remain unchanged.
• The Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) does not ask for payments of any kind from applicants throughout the recruitment process (job application, CV review, interview meeting, and final processing of applications).
• In addition, the IsDB does not request information on applicants’ bank accounts.
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