AVP, Control & Governance

First Abu Dhabi Bank
Abu Dhabi
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Healthcare (Clinical, Medical, Wellness)Education: bachelorsSkills: ["Stakeholder management","Investigation","Analytical skills","Escalation","Documentation"]

Support the GM Middle Office Control & Governance function by executing daily and event-driven first-line control monitoring across Global Markets processes. Perform trade controls, risk surveillance support, reconciliations, exception/break tracking, lifecycle event control monitoring, and evidence management. Escalate breaches and aged items appropriately, coordinate investigations with Front Office, Trade Support, Product Control, Market Risk, Finance, Compliance, Technology, Credit, and regional teams, and provide KPI/KRI and governance reporting inputs.

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First Abu Dhabi Bank
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AVP, Control & Governance

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Job Summary

Support the GM Middle Office Control & Governance function by executing daily and event-driven first-line control monitoring across Global Markets processes. Perform trade controls, risk surveillance support, reconciliations, exception/break tracking, lifecycle event control monitoring, and evidence management. Escalate breaches and aged items appropriately, coordinate investigations with Front Office, Trade Support, Product Control, Market Risk, Finance, Compliance, Technology, Credit, and regional teams, and provide KPI/KRI and governance reporting inputs.
Location: Abu Dhabi
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Healthcare (Clinical, Medical, Wellness)
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Execute GM MO Control & Governance activities in line with SOPs, control standards, escalation protocols, and evidence requirements; maintain control logs, issue trackers, and evidence files.
  • •Perform trading permissions and booking template checks, review internal trade booking and Islamic trade booking controls where applicable, and escalate breaches and repeated exceptions.
  • •Support off-market trade monitoring and counterparty exposure monitoring by tracking indicators, threshold breaches, pending clarifications, and investigation evidence; provide inputs to risk-monitoring dashboards and KRI reporting.
  • •Perform or oversee reconciliation checks (front-to-back, system-to-system, T0, position-related where applicable), track failed trades/settlement fails/aged breaks, coordinate root-cause analysis, and ensure reconciliation evidence and remediation actions are complete.
  • •Monitor lifecycle event controls and support investigations with Trade Support, Operations, Product Control, Market Risk and others; prepare governance reporting inputs (KPI/KRI/control packs) and maintain audit/RCSA control evidence.

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years of experience in Global Markets Operations, Middle Office, Control, Governance, Reconciliations, Regulatory Reporting, Product Control, Market Risk, Collateral Management, or related first-line control functions.
  • •Strong understanding of Global Markets products including FX, Money Markets, Rates, Derivatives, Commodities, Capital Markets and structured products.
  • •Good knowledge of trade lifecycle controls, booking controls, amendment/cancellation controls, reconciliations, settlement-fail monitoring, lifecycle events and exception management.
  • •Experience preparing control evidence, issue logs, reconciliation commentary, KPI/KRI inputs, audit evidence and management reporting.
  • •Practical knowledge of systems and platforms such as Murex, MarkitWire, Bloomberg, reconciliation tools, regulatory reporting platforms and workflow/dashboard tools.
Experience:Global marketsBankingMiddle officeControl governanceReconciliationsRegulatory reporting
Education:Bachelor's in finance, banking, economics, business administration, accounting, risk management or a related discipline
Skills:Stakeholder managementInvestigationAnalytical skillsEscalationDocumentation
Tech Stack:MurexMarkitWireBloomberg

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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