Executive Manager, Operational & Technology Resilience

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ADCB prioritises a disciplined approach to risk, recognising its fundamental importance to the Bank’s long-term organisational and financial resilience. Group Risk Management oversees the implementation of ADCB's risk objectives, identifying and addressing gaps in the bank's risk infrastructure/framework. Their responsibilities include nurturing the independence of the risk function, establishing provisioning policies, and introducing changes to energise risk awareness among front office personnel and decision-makers.

Continuously tuning the risk organisation in line with market best practices, they manage ADCB's portfolio and associated risks to international standards, while establishing a clear risk culture across all areas of operation.

• Lead and coordinate enterprise-wide technology, operational resilience, and risk transformation initiatives across the Bank, ensuring programmes are delivered in line with strategic objectives.
• Act as the central coordination point between Technology, Risk, Operations, and Business stakeholders, consolidating issues, risks, actions, dependencies, and deliverables across multiple work streams.
• Drive the implementation and embedding of the Bank’s Operational Resilience and Risk Transformation roadmap, ensuring alignment across functions and business units.
• Lead and coordinate risk assessments and resilience reviews across multiple business and support functions, ensuring outcomes are tracked and delivered through appropriate governance.
• Establish and maintain governance structures, forums, and working groups to monitor programme progress, elevate issues, and drive timely decision-making.
• Prepare and present executive and board-level reporting, including programme updates, risk assessments, KPIs, milestones, and key decisions required from governance committees.
• Challenge stakeholders and provide independent recommendations to ensure risks, issues, and actions are appropriately addressed and resolved.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver transformation outcomes, ensuring alignment between technology, operational resilience, risk management, and business objectives.
• Monitor programme delivery against agreed timelines, milestones, and strategic objectives, proactively identifying and escalating potential roadblocks.
• Support the development and implementation of operational resilience capabilities, including resilience testing, scenario planning, and risk mitigation activities.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance governance, resilience, risk oversight, and programme delivery effectiveness.
• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders across the organisation, influencing outcomes and ensuring effective collaboration.
• Lead discussions within governance forums and management committees, ensuring clear ownership and accountability for actions and decisions.
• Manage and oversee programme-related reporting, management information, and dashboards to provide accurate and timely insights to stakeholders.
• Support regulatory, audit, and review activities related to operational resilience and transformation programmes, ensuring actions are effectively managed to closure.
• Manage the effective achievement of team objectives through performance management, coaching, and development of direct reports.

• Minimum 8 years of experience within banking or financial services, with significant exposure to large-scale…