Senior Manager - Payments Regulatory Compliance
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About the Role
ADIB - Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank seeks a Senior Manager for Payments Regulatory Compliance in Abu Dhabi/Dubai. The role involves owning and governing regulatory mandates for the payments ecosystem, ensuring alignment with Central Bank of UAE expectations.
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Responsibilities
- Act as the bank’s internal authority for regulatory technology and mandated initiatives
- Interpret regulatory circulars, standards, and advisories; translate them into actionable, sequenced implementation roadmaps
- Maintain continuous readiness for regulatory inspections, thematic reviews, and audits
- Maintain proactive engagement with Regulators and their affiliated entities to ensure transparency, trust and alignment on compliance objectives
- Serve as the primary liaison between internal Compliance, Risk, Legal, Technology, Operations, Payments, and Business teams and external regulators
- Coordinate regulatory clarifications, interpretations, and responses, ensuring consistency and accuracy
- Represent the bank credibly in regulatory forums, working groups, and industry discussions
- Own and oversee bank wide delivery of regulatory and Central bank driven programs
- Provide clear guidance and advisory to cross functional delivery teams implementing regulatory mandates
- Actively safeguard the bank’s regulatory license, credit ratings, and brand reputation
Requirements
- Very good knowledge of Cash Management and Payments Products Local and International
- Good leadership skills & Team player
- Self motivated
- Able to multitask, prioritize and work under pressure
- Control Environment Including Risk Management
- Business Skills Including Deliver Solutions and Decision Making
- Management & Leadership
- Personal & Interpersonal Skills: Including Communication & Influence and Collaboration
- Abilities in ensuring Regulatory Compliance Standards are met across the Dept/units
- Strong analytical /financial analysis skills
- Project Management Skills
- Strategic Planning
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Role Purpose
- In an environment where accurate, timely, and auditable implementation of regulatory mandates is fundamental to the bank’s license, reputation, and stakeholder confidence, this role serves as the single point compass for the bank’s regulatory technology and compliance driven initiatives.
- The incumbent will own, guide, and govern the end to end delivery of Payments regulatory mandates, ensuring full alignment with expectations from the Central Bank of the UAE, other regulators, ratings agencies, shareholders internal risk governance bodies and International and group subsidiaries (wh
Key Accountabilities
- Regulatory Ownership & Governance: Act as the bank’s internal authority for regulatory technology and mandated initiatives.
- Interpret regulatory circulars, standards, and advisories; translate them into actionable, sequenced implementation roadmaps.
- Maintain continuous readiness for regulatory inspections, thematic reviews, and audits.
- Maintain proactive engagement with Regulators and their affiliated entities to ensure transparency, trust and alignment on compliance objectives.
- Strategic Liaison & Stakeholder Management: Serve as the primary liaison between internal teams and external regulators.
- Coordinate regulatory clarifications, interpretations, and responses, ensuring consistency and accuracy.
- Represent the bank credibly in regulatory forums, working groups, and industry discussions.
- Leadership – Key Regulatory Initiatives: Own and oversee bank wide delivery of regulatory and Central bank driven programs.
- Cross Functional Enablement & Advisory: Provide clear guidance and advisory to cross functional delivery teams implementing regulatory mandates.
- Risk, Reputation & License Protection: Actively safeguard the bank’s regulatory license, credit ratings, and brand reputation.
Specialist Skills / Technical Knowledge
- Very good knowledge of Cash Management and Payments Products Local and International
- Good leadership skills & Team player
- Self motivated
- Able to multitask, prioritize and work under pressure
- Control Environment Including Risk Management
- Business Skills Including Deliver Solutions and Decision Making
- Management & Leadership
- Personal & Interpersonal Skills: Including Communication & Influence and Collaboration
- Abilities in ensuring Regulatory Compliance Standards are met across the Dept/units
- Strong analytical /financial analysis skills
- Project Management Skills
- Strategic Planning
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