Business Lead- Cash/Trade Contract

Job Title: Outsourced Cash/Trade Business Lead

Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE

Job Type- Contractual(extendable)

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Coordinating with cross discipline team members to make sure that all parties are on track with

project requirements, deadlines, and schedules.

• Develop a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress and delegate project tasks based

on junior staff members’ individual strengths, skill sets and experience levels.

• Track project performance, specifically to analyse the successful completion of short and long-

term goals.

• Develop comprehensive project plans to be shared with clients as well as other staff members.

• Perform risk management to minimize project risks.

• Examine the progress of the work and maintain the plans of the project to make sure that the

results obtained are as per the standards of the project.

• Coordinating the development of user manuals, training materials and other documents as

needed to enable successful implementation and turnover of the process or system to the

clients.

• Conducting post project evaluation and identifying successful and unsuccessful project

elements.

• Preparing status reports by gathering, analysing and summarizing relevant information.

• Lead and motivate people, drive them towards successful achievements, provide coaching and

support when needed and create a strong team spirit culture to boost internal productivity.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in appropriate field of study or equivalent work experience.

• Minimum 3-4 years’ experience in a Business Lead role that includes at least 1 Agile project.

• Fair knowledge of Global Transaction Banking domain and understanding of how Corporate Channels

work. Also must have a previously delivered Corporate Channels projects experience.

• Proficiency with related Project tools including but not limited to JIRA, MS Excel, MPP, MS Visio, HP-

QC etc.

• AGILE certification is a plus.

• Must have in-depth knowledge of Transaction Banking products and channels.

• For Cash Business Lead, must have experience with previous project deliveries for cash products

– iBanking, Intellect, LMS, DDS, WPS, Swift, UX UAE etc.

• For Trade Business Lead, must have experience with previous project deliveries for trade

products – Import and Export Letter of credits, Import and Export Collections, Guarantees TRs

Invoice discounting etc.

Competencies

• Working knowledge of project methodologies i.e. AGILE/WATERFALL etc.

• Detail oriented, analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to coordinate complex tasks and extremely organized with strong time-management skills.

• As a Business Analyst one should have baseline skills in Business Analysis, Business Knowledge,

Software Engineering, Testing, Functional Architecture Design & Project Financials, KPI´s &

Reporting.

• Hands on experience in generating documentations i.e. BRD, User Guide, Process Flow etc