Head of Treasury & Investment Programme Office recruitment

Working for a leading UAE Bank and reporting directly to the Head of Treasury and Investment Group, your responsibilities will be as follows:

Run the Program Management office for Treasury

Serve as a Project Management Delivery Leader for Treasury to track, monitor and assist various strategic Initiatives planned across Treasury Business teams towards timely successful implementation

Facilitate all Treasury Technology Initiatives and ensure successful delivery by IT Teams.

Directs the planning and development of Treasury projects to facilitate a smooth roll out of a series of projects

Assist Treasury teams in removing bottlenecks in their project implementation, ensuring final delivery is in conformity with the envisaged plan

Ensure Implication and Impact analysis of various project implementations (being executed by Treasury teams) on the frontline staff/customers.

Prepare presentations get required approvals for all Treasury projects initiatives

Work closely with Treasury Business users in identifying and scoping new opportunities and focus areas which have Revenue /or Service Impact /or Expense Saves.

Proactively communicates with the Treasury business units to handle developments in technology and user expectations driving away from limited life concepts to a wider perspective of systems selection and utilisation.  

Articulate business requirements and provide detailed functional specification documents for any new/ change requirements

Liaise with Vendor, related business departments and IT department to ensure that required Project/initiatives tasks are agreed and executed in timely fashion

Coordinate Matrix of Inter-Departmental Dependencies and Responsibilities.

Formulate Control Charts appropriate tracking mechanisms so as to ensure that timelines are maintained and regular updates are shared with appropriate teams.

SER monitoring and work as a single point of contact for all SERs remedy cases related to Treasury.

Do the initial investigations before logging any case in remedy and provide sufficient details for Treasury issues

Assist guide users to prepare their comprehensive test cases. Monitor Treasury projects UAT process, results sign off.

Investigate e-access cases raised by business and approve/reject accordingly

Supports Treasury Business units to conduct quality checks on related end-to-end process and operations readiness in case of New Product/Service Releases

Articulate document business processes and procedure for current future functionalities related to Treasury business unit and their relation with other departments

Maintain Reuters Bloomberg terminals/users/ access rights inventory and ensure the best utilization of the available terminals and access rights and cost saving cost

Ensure the proper implementation of add/cancel Reuters / Bloomberg terminals/ access rights

Document and maintain existing documentation related to Treasury IT related issues / projects / initiatives/ processes/ requirements in one of the shared folders which should be maintained on a daily basis

Document all Meeting minutes and ensure the circulation and update the same with attendees feedback

Arrange with treasury Business units for their required budgets (OPEX CAPEX) related to IT systems.

Track budget and expenses related to Treasury IT systems services

Get required excess approvals

Handle and reply to all audit observations and comments related to IT projects/initiatives/services/processes/applications and all similar issues

Make sure that replies will be agreed with Head of Treasury

Ensure the execution resolution of all audit observations on timely basis

Facilitate manage Treasury Related issues with vendors

Review Treasury IT related contracts resolve issues

Keep good relationship with Vendors

Negotiation

Monitor /suggest/approve disaster recovery plan/test/scenarios.

Monitor Treasury application licences and ensure compliance with contracts

Candidate Requirements

A University Degree in computer science

PMI or similar Project Management qualifications 

A least 15 years experience in Treasury Information systems.

An excellent knowledge of written and spoken English is required

An excellent command of MS Office is required.

Excellent person-to-person communication skills are required