Regulatory & Financial Reporting Lead

We're excited to be partnering with a leading institution in the UAE that is building a digital-first, AI-enabled financial services organisation from the ground up. This is a unique opportunity to join at an early stage and help shape the finance, regulatory reporting, and financial control capabilities of a business with significant institutional backing and long-term ambition. If you're passionate about regulatory reporting, financial governance, IFRS reporting, and building scalable reporting frameworks within a highly regulated environment, we'd love to hear from you.

As Regulatory & Financial Reporting Lead
, you will be responsible for establishing and leading the organisation's regulatory and financial reporting capability from day one. Working closely with Finance, Risk, Treasury, and senior leadership teams, you'll play a key role in ensuring accurate and timely regulatory submissions, IFRS-compliant financial reporting, and the development of robust reporting controls, processes, and governance frameworks that support growth and regulatory compliance.

• Own and deliver the full suite of regulatory reporting submissions, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and timeliness.
• Lead the preparation of quarterly financial statements in accordance with IFRS requirements.
• Manage regulatory filing calendars, submission controls, governance processes, and audit trails.
• Oversee reporting across capital adequacy, liquidity, credit, statistical reporting, and regulatory disclosures.
• Partner with Risk teams on IFRS 9 expected credit loss (ECL) reporting, disclosures, and regulatory requirements.
• Reconcile regulatory returns to financial statements and the general ledger, ensuring a single, auditable source of truth.
• Support ICAAP, ILAAP, and other supervisory submissions with accurate capital and liquidity reporting inputs.
• Build scalable reporting capabilities, leveraging automation, analytics, and AI-enabled reporting processes where appropriate.

• 8+ years of regulatory and financial reporting experience within banking or financial services.
• Strong expertise in regulatory returns, financial reporting, submission control, and reporting governance.
• Deep knowledge of CBUAE prudential and statistical reporting requirements.
• Strong understanding of IFRS financial statements and IFRS 9 expected credit loss requirements.
• Experience building or improving regulatory reporting frameworks, controls, and processes within a regulated environment.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage effectively across Finance, Risk, Treasury, Audit, and regulators.
• ACA, ACCA, CPA, or similar accounting qualification preferred.
• UAE banking experience is required.