Country Business Head, UAE - Captive Fintech

Job Title: Country Head of Business-  GCB3

The Opportunity

We are looking for ambitious and motivated individuals who are keen to embrace growth and tackle the impending challenges in this fast-evolving industry. You should be passionate about approaching things differently, while operating like a fintech within a bank. We are not looking for superpowers - we are looking for knowledge, enthusiasm and the right attitude to deliver our global initiative in a lean way.We are building a new strategic digital business backed by a Global Bank, with the ambition to become the next-generation global fintech solution, supporting the needs of internationally minded customers around the world. With a global footprint, they serve more than 50 million customers worldwide with a complete range of banking and wealth management services, enabling customers to manage their finances and protect and build their financial futures.

Role Overview

As part of our global expansion, we are looking for a Country Head of Business - UAE.

The successful candidate must possess a unique blend of entrepreneurial acumen, leadership skills, passion, energy, and experience to successfully grow and scale the business. The successful candidate will be responsible for setting the strategic direction of the company, building a strong team, and driving execution to achieve our vision.

The end-to-end accountability includes managing and scaling the local business cutting across customer acquisition, P&L management, fulfilling regulatory obligations in relation to operations, compliance, people, legal, information, fraud, cross-border activity, reputation and brand as well as financial controls and financial exposure.

In this role you will

·Responsible for setting the strategic direction of the company, building a strong team, and driving execution to achieve our vision.

·The end-to-end accountability includes managing and scaling the local business cutting across customer acquisition, P&L management, fulfilling regulatory obligations in relation to operation

·Act as Board member of the local regulated entity /Chair of country ExCo.

·Build core stakeholder relationship with the Global CEO, other Global ExCo members and other senior members of this fintech venture.

• Liaise with the Global Expansion team and drive the process end-to-end: understand the regulations, execute on the application with support from right subject-matter experts and get the regulatory buy-in.

·In collaboration with Global Expansion and Growth teams, responsibility for making decisions on what problems to solve for which customers, how to prioritize, etc

• Delivers updates on business, strategy to the board of directors and other stakeholders
• Maintain and improve relationships with financial institutions (banks, payment companies, card schemes) and lead commercial negotiations to drive down costs. You will be accountable for our economics to ensure that our proposition is competitive; if needed, onboard new Financial Institution partners.
• Formulating strategies for expansion and key offerings for growth and profitability
• Set comprehensive goals for performance and growth