Description
Job description / Role
Job Type
Full Time
Job Location
Dubai, UAE
Nationality
Any Nationality
Salary
Not Specified
Gender
Not Specified
Arabic Fluency
Not Specified
Job Function
Finance, Business Analysis & Consulting
Company Industry
Retail
Company Overview
Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions: automotive, financial services, real estate, retail, and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, Al-Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world's most admired and innovative brands. Al-Futtaim Group’s entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organisation to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate.
By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration, and integrity; Al-Futtaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day.
Role Overview
The Chief Risk Officer leads Al Futtaim Finance Company’s independent Risk Management function as the second line of defense for a CBUAE-regulated finance company.
The CRO is responsible for enterprise-wide risk oversight across credit, portfolio, operational, outsourcing, technology, information security, resilience, model risk where applicable, emerging, strategic, and regulatory risks.
The role owns the Enterprise Risk Management Framework, Risk Appetite Framework, risk policies, risk reporting, monitoring, and escalation processes.
The CRO provides independent challenge, risk opinions, and escalation to the Board, Board Risk Committee, and senior management, while remaining independent from revenue-generating activities, first-line credit approvals, underwriting execution, and operational decision-making.
The CRO also supports CBUAE readiness, regulatory reviews, remediation plans, and acts as the primary risk representative with CBUAE on risk matters.
Responsibilities
Enterprise risk governance, framework and risk appetite: Develop, maintain, and review AFF’s enterprise risk framework, Risk Appetite Framework, risk policies, KRIs, limits, thresholds, and escalation procedures.
Board Risk Committee and executive risk reporting: Provide timely risk reporting, independent risk opinions, and escalation of material risk matters to the Board, Board Risk Committee, and senior management.
Independent credit risk oversight and challenge: Provide independent second-line oversight and challenge on credit risk, including exposures, deviations, restructurings, write-offs, concentration risk, provisioning indicators, and portfolio deterioration. The CRO does not own first-line credit approvals or underwriting execution.
Portfolio monitoring, risk appetite, stress testing and early warning oversight: Monitor portfolio quality, concentration risk, delinquency trends, provisioning indicators, early warning indicators, risk appetite breaches, and stress signals. Oversee stress testing and scenario analysis.
Operational, outsourcing, technology and resilience risk oversight: Oversee operational risk, outsourcing and third-party risk, technology and information security risk, cyber risk, business continuity, and resilience risk. Review and challenge first-line controls and escalate material weaknesses.
Regulatory risk management, CBUAE readiness and remediation support: Support CBUAE examinations, supervisory reviews, remediation plans, regulatory responses, and risk-related submissions. Act as AFF’s primary risk representative with CBUAE on risk matters.
Risk input into governance, policy, new products and strategic change: Provide independent risk input on policies, DoA changes, outsourcing arrangements, new products, new services, distribution channels, strategic initiatives, and major business changes.
Risk culture, leadership and governance evidence: Lead the Risk function and promote strong risk culture through governance forums, training, awareness, and engagement. Ensure risk decisions, exceptions, escalations, and committee submissions.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Risk Management, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Mathematics, or related field. Master’s degree and professional qualifications such as FRM, PRM, CFA, CA, CPA, or ACCA preferred.
Minimum 12–15 years in risk management within financial services, with senior experience in a regulated lending, finance, or banking environment.
Experience in enterprise risk management, Risk Appetite Framework, credit risk oversight, portfolio monitoring, stress testing, operational and outsourcing risk, technology and information security risk, regulatory engagement, Board reporting, policy review, risk data governance, leadership, and stakeholder management.
Candidate Guidance
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Our global Talent Acquisition team members are assigned to specific businesses to ensure the best matches between talent and opportunities. We consider the compatibility of skills and behaviours, as well as how candidates align with our values of respect, integrity, collaboration, and excellence.
As part of our candidate experience promise, we make ourselves available to you throughout the application process and make every effort to review and respond to every application.
About the Company
Established in the 1930's, the Al-Futtaim Group initially operated as a trading enterprise. Rapid development throughout the 1940's and 50's saw it establish itself regionally as an integrated commercial, industrial and services organisation, positioning itself one of the leading business houses in the lower Gulf region. Today, it operates collectively over 40 companies bearing the Al-Futtaim name, dominates many market segments in the UAE, and has expanded its sphere of operation to include Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and Egypt.
The Group comprises a diverse range of strategically positioned operating subsidiaries and associate companies, structured to give the Al-Futtaim Group the flexibility and versatility to keep ahead of local competition while keeping pace with the ever-evolving global business scenario. The Groups continued investment in world-class systems technology is clear evidence of its commitment to maintain leading edge performance and service delivery.
The success of the Al-Futtaim Group can be attributed to a business approach that combines the ability to change with the traditional values of integrity, service and social responsibility that define its core business philosophy. This, linked with the Groups belief in decentralisation, gives the heads of the operating companies a high degree of functional autonomy and authority, providing the Group with essential flexibility, and individual employees a clearly defined work culture and sense of responsibility.
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