QNB3163 - Senior Manager IT Governance & Performance (Qatarization)

QNB3163 - Senior Manager IT Governance & Performance (Qatarization)

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About QNB

Established in 1964 as the country’s first Qatari‑owned commercial bank, QNB Group has steadily grown to become the largest bank in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) region. With presence in more than 31 countries, the bank serves over 20 million customers across 1,000 locations and an ATM network of 4,300 machines. It is highly rated by leading credit agencies and recognized as the most valuable bank brand in MEA.

Job Summary

The incumbent acts as an interface to the business community in a specific country, establishes strong working relationships, understands the country’s business direction and ensures customers leverage value from IT services and capabilities. The role complies with all applicable legal, regulatory and internal compliance requirements, including Group Compliance Policies.

Main Responsibilities

• Shareholder & Financial :
• Responsible for developing and maintaining appropriate service level agreements (SLAs) with the business
• Develop new service definitions ensuring that they can be delivered operationally and cost effectively
• Build strong and productive relationships with key business stakeholders
• Conduct 1st Level discussion for all IT Projects initiated with Business and help Business in preparing detailed Business Requirement Specification
• Prepare a Demand outline for IT initiative raised by business
• Preparer Business Cases in coordination with Business and ITD
• Act as liaison with the business for all service improvements, changes and escalations for capturing primary requirements
• Ensure timely, concise and effective communication with the business for service outage, service interruption and service improvement
• Member of the Change Advisory Board (CAB)
• Implements KPI’s and best practices for IT International Support Team
• Promote cost consciousness and efficiency and enhance productivity, to minimise cost, avoid waste, and optimise benefits for the bank
• Customer (Internal & External) :
• Work alongside the IT System / Operations manager to ensure that SLAs are met and business expectations are exceeded
• Ensure that any SLA breaches are investigated and corrective action is taken to improve service delivery
• Provide reports to an agreed schedule (or on request) including SLA performance and other key metric reports
• To assist customers in all their queries on Bank’s product and seek solution to their requests
• Maintain activities in accordance with Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with internal departments / units to achieve improvements in turn‑around time
• Build and maintain strong / effective relationships with related departments / units to achieve the Group’s objectives
• Provide timely / accurate data to external / internal Auditors, Compliance, Financial Control and Risk when required
• Internal (Processes, Products, Regulatory) :
• Ensure that systems, processes and methodologies as specified are followed to provide effective monitoring, control and support of service delivery
• Manage the overall service improvement plan and work with the IT Systems / Operations manager to ensure that it is being delivered to and that services are being improved
• Conduct monthly service reviews with individual business stakeholders to discuss service issues and identify project requirements
• Learning & Knowledge :
• Attend specific conferences in areas of financial services technology breakthroughs and innovations to adapt suitable ones to the bank’s architecture
• Possess a superior knowledge of the Group’s IT structure, its products and related risks together with a good knowledge of operations and related controls
• Identify areas for professional development of self and direct reports and act to enhance professional development of self and others
• Proactively identify areas for professional development of self and undertake development activities
• Seek out opportunities to remain current with all developments in professional field
• Legal, Regulatory, and Risk Framework Responsibilities :
• Comply with all applicable legal, regulatory and internal compliance requirements including, but not limited to, Group Compliance Policies and Procedures (AML & CTF, Sanctions Policy, Data Protection Policy, Fraud Control Policy, Whistle Blowing Policy, Conflict of Interest and Insider Dealing Policy)
• Understand and effectively perform your role under the Three Lines of Defence principle to identify measure, monitor, manage and report risks
• Ensure systematic good outcomes for clients in accordance with Conduct Risk policy
• Support the framework of RCSA, KRI, Incident reporting and remediation, as appropriate, in accordance with the Operational Risk Management requirements
• Maintain appropriate knowledge to ensure full qualification to undertake the role
• Complete all mandatory training provided by the Bank, attain, and maintain the required levels of competence
• Attend mandatory (internal and external) seminars as instructed by the Bank
• Other :

Maintaining utmost confidentiality concerning customer and internal bank information obtained during the course of business and provide such information on a need to know basis only to Senior Management of QNB, Audit and Compliance functions, and relevant Regulators

Education And Experience Requirements

Attachments Required

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

Banking

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