SVP - Finance Technology.injaz - TECH - Finance
Employer not yet confirmed · UAE · onsite
The Senior Vice President – Stream Head, Finance Technology is accountable for the strategy, architecture, delivery, support, governance and transformation of Finance Technology platforms across the bank. The role ensures secure, resilient, compliant and efficient technology services supporting Finance, Regulatory Reporting, General Ledger, Reconciliation, Management Reporting, Treasury Accounting, Financial Controls and Data Governance.
Accountable for defining and executing the Finance Technology roadmap, future-state architecture and target operating model aligned with the Group CFO organization, business priorities, regulatory obligations, enterprise technology strategy, operational resilience requirements and technology risk standards.
The role provides end-to-end ownership across financial accounting and control, financial close, planning and performance management, profitability and funds transfer pricing, OFSAA, regulatory and management reporting, Finance data warehouses and engineering, reconciliation, financial analytics and interfaces with Core Banking, Treasury, Payments and Channels.
The role leads the Run, Change and Transform agenda, balancing platform availability, service continuity, statutory deadlines and regulatory delivery with modernization, cloud adoption, automation, simplification and technology-debt reduction. It is the primary Technology partner to Finance leadership and represents Finance Technology in executive, audit, regulatory and governance forums.
The role builds a high-performing Finance Technology organization, develops succession and specialist capability, and governs strategic vendors and system integrators while driving measurable outcomes in stability, delivery, risk reduction, control effectiveness, cost management and stakeholder confidence.
The role provides strategic Finance Technology leadership for new-country and legal-entity launches, including markets such as KSA and future operating models requiring in-country data residency or local data-centre deployment. It assesses the impact on consolidated Finance platforms and defines scalable architectures that balance local regulatory requirements with Group standardization, control and operational resilience.
The role is also the key Finance Technology partner for major Risk programmes, Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM Cloud) evolution, Finance Artificial Intelligence solution evaluation and enterprise data-quality decisions that influence executive management and Board reporting.
The role has strategic accountability for customer profitability and business performance management capabilities that provide critical performance insights across Wholesale Banking, Retail Banking, International Banking and Financial Institutions.
Operating BudgetAccountable for governance, prioritization and financial performance of the 2027 Finance Technology operating expenditure of approximately AED 7.01 million.
Number of Staff• 17 existing Finance Technology resources: 10 supporting Run / production services and 7 supporting transformation, including Program/Project resource augmentation.
• Net Finance Technology workforce capacity: 40 to 65+ resources
Capital Exp. BudgetInfluences and governs approximately AED 35.11 million of Finance Technology CAPEX
In addition, governs AED 4.50 million of Finance Technology URF funding.
Other
• Own mission-critical Finance platforms across countries and legal entities
• Lead the Finance Technology Run, Change and Transform agenda
• Define and execute the Finance Technology strategy and target architecture
• Support financial close, general ledger integrity, statutory and regulatory reporting
• Lead OFSAA, planning, profitability, Finance data engineering and reporting capabilities
• Manage senior stakeholder alignment with Group Finance, Risk, Data, Operations and Audit
• Lead and develop high-performing, geographically distributed teams
• Oversee strategic vendors, system integrators and managed-service partners
• Drive cross-functional solution design, engineering, testing and delivery
• Operate at enterprise scale within a complex, regulated and multi-vendor ecosystem
• Shape Finance Technology strategy for country launches, local data-residency requirements and deployment-model changes affecting consolidated Group platforms
• Provide architectural leadership for cross-functional Risk programmes and the future evolution of Oracle EPM and Finance AI capabilities
• Define and execute the Finance Technology strategy, target architecture, technology roadmap and target operating model within the enterprise strategy, architecture principles, investment priorities and cross-stream standards established by the Head of Core Banking, Finance and Treasury Technology.
• Lead modernization across Finance platforms through simplification, automation, cloud adoption where appropriate, application rationalization and systematic reduction of technology debt.
• Own end-to-end service outcomes for General Ledger, financial accounting, regulatory reporting, reconciliation, FTP and profitability, Finance data warehouses, management reporting, analytics and integrations with Core Banking, Treasury, Payments and Channels.
• Ensure critical Finance systems achieve strong availability, recoverability, performance, capacity, security and service continuity, supported by disciplined Incident, Problem, Change and Release Management.
• Lead major-incident reviews and root-cause analysis, eliminate repeat incidents, strengthen preventive controls and improve observability and production-support effectiveness.
• Enable controlled and timely period-end processing, ledger interfaces, accounting rules, posting controls and reconciliation, protecting completeness, accuracy, lineage and auditability from source transactions to financial statements.
• Deliver statutory and regulatory reporting capabilities across jurisdictions, ensuring controlled calculations, data lineage, evidence retention, submission readiness and timely implementation of regulatory change.
• Provide strategic ownership of OFSAA and related platforms supporting funds transfer pricing, profitability, allocation, management reporting and regulatory use cases, with strong lifecycle and performance management.
• Advance enterprise planning, budgeting, forecasting, scenario modelling, cost management and performance analytics, integrating actuals, plans, drivers and management information.
• Lead Finance data governance and engineering by establishing authoritative data products, reusable pipelines, common definitions, reconciliation controls, metadata, lineage and financial data-quality standards.
• Govern Finance application engineering, APIs, middleware, workflow, batch and event-based integration, DevSecOps, testing automation, release quality and production readiness.
• Provide executive governance over the Finance Technology portfolio and large-scale regulatory and transformation programs, ensuring delivery across scope, cost, schedule, quality, risk, dependencies and benefits realization.
• Ensure compliance with Central Bank requirements, internal policies, cybersecurity standards and financial-control frameworks; support internal, external and regulatory audits and close agreed remediation actions.
• Own technology risk identification, treatment and escalation, including access controls, segregation of duties, vulnerabilities, data integrity, disaster recovery, vendor concentration and platform obsolescence.
• Partner with the CFO organization and Finance leadership; engage auditors, regulators, senior executives and vendors; and represent Finance Technology in steering committees and governance forums.
• Own demand prioritization, budgets, forecasts, licensing and vendor commercials. Drive cost optimization, SLA compliance, vendor performance and transparent executive reporting.
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