Risk Manager - AD representative, RCH and RIE (Abu Dhabi Based)
UAE, Abu Dhabi · UAE, Dubai · 10+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 5, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 10+ years experience
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Location
- UAE, Abu Dhabi · UAE, Dubai
About the role
- The Risk Manager acts as the senior hands-on risk practitioner supporting the Head of Risk for the RCH and the RIE.
- The role carries the analytical and operational weight of the risk function, building and running methodologies across credit, market, liquidity, counterparty, operational, and technology risk.
Responsibilities
- Draft, maintain and operationalise the risk policy suite across the RIE and RCH, including Risk Management Framework, Credit Policy and Procedures, Margin Policy, Collateral Policy, Stress Testing Policy, and related standards.
- Serve as the operational coordinator for regulatory submissions and engagement across both entities, preparing and assembling prudential reporting deliverables.
- Own the risk management toolkit across the RIE and RCH, including risk identification and assessment methodologies, KRI dashboards with thresholds, risk register and taxonomy maintenance, and risk reporting packs.
- Build and run the stress testing programme covering scenario design and calibration, stressed liquidity and capital measures, reverse stress testing, and the quarterly stress test cycle.
- Develop and maintain margin and collateral risk methodologies, including collateral haircut calibration, concentration and shortfall metrics, and parameter governance materials.
- Support the prudential risk assessment within incident escalation by mapping incidents, preparing Decision Records on risk materiality, and drafting risk sections of post-incident reviews.
- Operate the model inventory by maintaining model documentation, running performance monitoring and validation reviews, and preparing model risk reporting for the Risk Committee.
- Own the risk data infrastructure including risk engine outputs, exposure aggregation, limit monitoring, and reconciliation between risk systems and business systems.
- Prepare risk committee and governance papers, risk appetite monitoring, escalation tracking, and engage business lines as the risk counterpart for new product assessments, limit requests, and parameter changes.
Requirements
- 10+ years in risk management within regulated financial institutions: investment banking, clearing house, exchange, prime brokerage, collateralised lending, or equivalent market-infrastructure environments.
- Strong quantitative skills with hands-on methodology experience in stress testing design, VaR or tail-risk measures, collateral haircut frameworks, market impact or liquidation analysis.
- Experience with risk data engineering realities such as exposure aggregation, reconciliation between risk and business systems, and data quality remediation.
- Clear, structured written and verbal communication abilities to produce decision-ready papers, regulatory submissions, and model documentation while presenting to senior management.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently on ambiguous problems by defining frameworks when policies exist only in outline.
- Comfort working in a high-growth, highly regulated environment where standards, processes, and controls continue to evolve.
- Naturally curious about financial markets, digital assets, market structure, and emerging risk themes.
- Based in Abu Dhabi with presence at ADGM premises as required.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience engaging with regulators on prudential or market-conduct matters
- Familiarity with ADGM, FSRA, CBUAE, DFSA, or MIFID rulebooks
- Holding a CFA, FRM or equivalent designation
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Company benefits
- Work-from-home arrangement
Workplace
- Based in Abu Dhabi
Skills
- Stress Testing
- VaR
- Collateral Haircut Frameworks
- Risk Analytics
- Exposure Aggregation
- Prudential Reporting
- Technology Risk
