Fintech Partnership Manager-ECF

3 weeks ago


Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates DataCube Full time

The person is expected to have deep understanding of business functionalities, technology landscape, available fintech solutions, design and run POCs and ensure value delivery to the respective business units. The engagement demands working in collaboration with Business, Technology and the wider GCOO functions.

  • This role will assist Head of Fintech Acceleration to drive adoption of FinTechs within Enablement & Control functions to solve business problems and will look to:
  • Comprehensively analyze & interpret ECF business demands toward regulatory, risk, compliance, finance and HR functions
  • Drive discussions around business demands to evaluate, provide options and seek recommendations on build vs buy
  • Understanding of the current capability landscape, identifying gaps and fitment of potential fintech solutions to plug the gaps
  • Scout and maintain robust pipeline of fintech prospects leveraging and developing Bank's FinTech ecosystem
  • Own the scouting, identification and evaluation of innovative fintech companies for potential partnerships
  • Collaborate with service lines to facilitate development and execution of PoCs and pilot projects with fintech partners
  • Drive comprehensive co-ordination and dependency management across service lines while ensuring effective communication to all stakeholders
  • Work with Enterprise Architecture and Service Lines to review technical solution and integration dependencies of fintech applications within Bank's Technology landscape
  • Oversee the setup and management of the bank's POC sandbox environment, ensuring it is optimized for testing various fintech solutions
  • Ensure seamless transition from sandbox testing to full-scale implementation, working closely with business and service lines
  • Prepare high-level view on major milestones for PoCs / implementations to track & highlight any major delays in Leadership forum
  • Act as 1st level escalation point for organization units such as Business, Service lines and other support functions

Qualifications & Experiences

  • 10-12 year's experience of which at least 8 years in a techno-functional roles managing programs focused on platforms used by Compliance, Risk, Finance and HR functions within financial services
  • Proven track record of managing fintech partnerships, including scouting, negotiating and operationalizing collaborations (is an added advantage)
  • Comprehensive understanding of Enablement & Control services (Customer Screening, Transaction Screening & monitoring, ALM, ACM, IFRS9, regulatory reporting, among others) and broader financial services landscape
  • Thorough knowledge on various architecture patterns with experience of driving end-to-end implementation
  • Proficient in designing & overseeing integration of various systems aligned to business objectives and defined architecture principles
  • Ability to identify and evaluate innovative technologies that can drive business growth and improve operational efficiencies
  • Experience in assessing consumer demands and identifying business trends
  • Experience in leading cross-functional teams for POCs, pilots and full-scale implementations
  • Experience in developing and executing strategic plans for integrating fintech solutions into Risk, Compliance operations
  • Creative thinker and problem solver, able to distill complex problems down to actionable items
  • Well-developed listening skills and a strong ability to engage at the executive management level
  • Articulate and effective communicator, both orally and in writing
  • Strong interpersonal skills, with evidence of working in collaboration across large, complex organizations, including effective influencing skills, a proactive and 'no surprises' approach in communicating issues/requests

Datacube is a leading IT Services company headquartered in Abu Dhabi, UAE with an offshore delivery center in India.

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