Head Governance & Control Islamic Banking

Provide strategic and governance leadership to ensure effective oversight of the Islamic Banking business in alignment with regulatory, Shariah, and Group standards.

• Responsible for the Risk Management and Governance of Islamic Banking business.
• Support Head of Islamic Banking to drive the strategic agenda, strengthen control frameworks, and deliver operational excellence within the Islamic Banking business.
• Drive initiatives that enhance risk culture, governance maturity, and process efficiency across the business, ensuring consistent alignment with the Group’s “One Bank” philosophy.
• Represent Islamic Banking in cross-functional strategic and governance discussions with Country Management Team (CMT), and regional stakeholders.
• Lead development of Islamic risk and governance updates for Executive Risk Committee (ERC) and Board Committees, highlighting progress, risks, and opportunities in Islamic Banking.
• Work with relevant products and segments to ensure that the Operational Risk Framework (ORF) for Islamic Banking is fully embedded in the structure.
• Collaborated with risk owners and process heads to ensure consistent implementation of regulatory and Shariah frameworks, while maintaining effective engagement with the regulator.
• Partner with governance and risk colleagues in businesses and function to ensure adequate controls are in place and properly executed in the leveraged business to meet regulatory, shariah and internal requirements.
• Ensure that all material operational risks for Islamic Business are identified, assessed, mitigated, monitored and reported to relevant governance forums, Executive & Board committee and Shariah board.
• Represented Islamic Banking in strategic and governance discussions with Group and Country stakeholders, providing insights on regulatory developments, risk posture, and business direction.
• Represent Islamic Banking in relevant Business and Functional Risk Forum in the country.
• Partner with business, operations, functional partners and first line risk teams to drive and support the identification, management and reporting of operational risks in Islamic business
• Be the go-to person for the Islamic business, for all operational risk related incidents / queries / events that arise.
• Partner with the Head of Islamic Banking to develop and monitor the execution of the Islamic Banking strategic roadmap, ensuring alignment with Group and regulatory expectations.
• Drive key strategic initiatives including transformation to full-fledged Islamic operations in line with the national conversion
• To be the source of reference within the business in facilitating / promoting the understanding of Operational and Shariah non-compliance Risk and compliance/regulatory requirements.
• Identify knowledge gaps, facilitate development of training material, and arrange relevant business training on Operational Risk.
• Ensure achieving no fail results on all audits and reviews undertaken by Group Internal Audit, Country Audit, regulators and external auditors.
• Review findings / key themes; assist business to achieve resolution in line with business risk appetite.
• Act as coordinator for various internal / external audits / reviews and liaise with various stakeholders to ensure timely and accurate information is provided.
• Responsible for tracking actions against audits and internal reviews and reporting the status of these actions periodically to the appropriate governance forums.
• Responsible for tracking the issues raised from business-specific reviews and follow-through to resolution.
  

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In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.