VP, Data Management Non- Credit Risk

First Abu Dhabi Bank
Abu Dhabi
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Banking, Lending & CreditExperience: 10+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Stakeholder management","Written communication","Team guidance","Issue management","Escalation management"]

Lead the delivery of Data Validation & Assessment activities for critical data elements and regulatory/management reports, ensuring independent validation, evidence review, reconciliation assessment, and governance challenge. Oversee validation planning, working papers and evidence packs, findings governance, stakeholder coordination, and escalation of material discrepancies. Operate as a second-line role under the SVP/Head, maintaining independence from first-line report production, remediation execution, and platform implementation, including BCBS 239–aligned validation mandates.

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First Abu Dhabi Bank
First Abu Dhabi Bank
4 days ago

VP, Data Management Non- Credit Risk

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Job Summary

Lead the delivery of Data Validation & Assessment activities for critical data elements and regulatory/management reports, ensuring independent validation, evidence review, reconciliation assessment, and governance challenge. Oversee validation planning, working papers and evidence packs, findings governance, stakeholder coordination, and escalation of material discrepancies. Operate as a second-line role under the SVP/Head, maintaining independence from first-line report production, remediation execution, and platform implementation, including BCBS 239–aligned validation mandates.
Location: Abu Dhabi
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Banking, Lending & Credit
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Translate the approved Data Validation & Assessment (DVA) mandate into validation plans, schedules, operating routines, evidence requirements, and governance reporting.
  • •Coordinate independent validation of critical data element (CDE) identification, scoring, prioritisation, governance evidence, documentation, and ownership assignments.
  • •Manage validation of assigned regulatory and management reports, assessing fit-for-purpose sources/systems of record, reconciliations, report definitions, movements/adjustments, coverage, and approvals.
  • •Apply DVA validation methodology and quality control (criteria, checklists, pass/conditional pass/fail), reviewing working papers, evidence packs, reconciliation outputs, and conclusions for audit/regulatory readiness.
  • •Identify, document, and escalate material discrepancies and governance gaps; prepare governance MI on coverage, findings, thematic weaknesses, root causes, and remediation status.

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Risk, Data or Information Systems, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, or a related discipline.
  • •10+ years of banking experience across banking operations, data domains, reporting, risk, finance, audit, data governance, or control environments.
  • •Strong experience in data validation and reporting validation, including CDE governance, BCBS 239, regulatory reporting controls, and related assurance activities.
  • •Good understanding of banking data flows, data ownership, metadata, data lineage, reconciliations, source systems, approved datamarts, data quality controls, and reporting production processes.
  • •Ability to review evidence, challenge reconciliation outputs, assess control evidence, document findings, and determine when issues require escalation and governance reporting.
Experience:10+ yearsBanking
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Stakeholder managementWritten communicationTeam guidanceIssue managementEscalation management
Languages:US

Company Brief

First Abu Dhabi Bank
First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) is the UAE’s largest bank, offering retail, corporate, investment banking, wealth and Islamic banking services across multiple continents, formed by the 2017 merger of First Gulf Bank and National Bank of Abu Dhabi.
Industry: Banking
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Founded: 2017
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