Head of Internal Control & Resilience Group Operations

🕒 April 17

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Mashreq

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1967

🏦 Banking

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

Banking • Finance • Fintech

Mashreq is a leading financial institution based in the UAE, offering a wide range of banking services including personal, corporate, and investment banking. The bank focuses on providing innovative financial solutions to its customers and has a strong digital banking presence.

📋 Description

• The role is accountable for driving enterprise-grade governance, control assurance, and risk management practices, including proactive identification of control gaps, systemic risk mitigation, and embedding a strong risk-aware culture across operations. • In addition to core GRC responsibilities, the role has evolved to include: Enterprise Governance Leadership, Control Transformation & Integration, Operational Risk Event (ORE) Governance, Enterprise Reconciliation Assurance, Resilience & Risk Alignment. • Key Result Areas: Plan, execute, and report GRC reviews across operations units; Identify, assess, and communicate risks, control gaps, and thematic issues; Lead structuring and execution of OGRM; Oversee reconciliation control framework across all account types; Drive reduction in aged and unreconciled items.

🎯 Requirements

• 20+ years in banking operations, internal controls, risk, or audit • Proven experience in leading GRC or control assurance functions • Experience managing cross-functional, multi-country teams • Exposure to reconciliation, regulatory frameworks, and large-scale transformation initiatives

🏖️ Benefits

• The role of Internal Controls & Resilience, Group Operations is responsible for leading and strengthening internal control, governance, risk, and assurance framework across Group Operations. • The role acts as a 1.5 Line of Defense, serving as a strategic conduit between first-line operations and second/third-line functions (Risk, Compliance, Finance, Audit), ensuring robust control design, effective execution, and continuous improvement in the operational risk landscape. • The role requires strong cross-functional leadership, balancing partnership with business units while maintaining independent assurance rigor, ensuring that operational controls are not only compliant but also effective, scalable, and aligned with the bank’s strategic and regulatory objectives. • Multi-country, multi-functional operations environment (UAE, India, Egypt, Pakistan, IBG). • High-volume transaction environment across payments, trade, cards, treasury, retail, and corporate banking.