SVP - Finance Technology.injaz - TECH - Finance

The Senior Vice President – Stream Head, Finance Technology is accountable for the strategy, architecture, delivery, support, governance and transformation of Finance Technology platforms across the bank. The role ensures secure, resilient, compliant and efficient technology services supporting Finance, Regulatory Reporting, General Ledger, Reconciliation, Management Reporting, Treasury Accounting, Financial Controls and Data Governance.

Accountable for defining and executing the Finance Technology roadmap, future-state architecture and target operating model aligned with the Group CFO organization, business priorities, regulatory obligations, enterprise technology strategy, operational resilience requirements and technology risk standards.

The role provides end-to-end ownership across financial accounting and control, financial close, planning and performance management, profitability and funds transfer pricing, OFSAA, regulatory and management reporting, Finance data warehouses and engineering, reconciliation, financial analytics and interfaces with Core Banking, Treasury, Payments and Channels.

The role leads the Run, Change and Transform agenda, balancing platform availability, service continuity, statutory deadlines and regulatory delivery with modernization, cloud adoption, automation, simplification and technology-debt reduction. It is the primary Technology partner to Finance leadership and represents Finance Technology in executive, audit, regulatory and governance forums.

The role builds a high-performing Finance Technology organization, develops succession and specialist capability, and governs strategic vendors and system integrators while driving measurable outcomes in stability, delivery, risk reduction, control effectiveness, cost management and stakeholder confidence.

The role provides strategic Finance Technology leadership for new-country and legal-entity launches, including markets such as KSA and future operating models requiring in-country data residency or local data-centre deployment. It assesses the impact on consolidated Finance platforms and defines scalable architectures that balance local regulatory requirements with Group standardization, control and operational resilience.

The role is also the key Finance Technology partner for major Risk programmes, Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM Cloud) evolution, Finance Artificial Intelligence solution evaluation and enterprise data-quality decisions that influence executive management and Board reporting.

The role has strategic accountability for customer profitability and business performance management capabilities that provide critical performance insights across Wholesale Banking, Retail Banking, International Banking and Financial Institutions.

Operating BudgetAccountable for governance, prioritization and financial performance of the 2027 Finance Technology operating expenditure of approximately AED 7.01 million.