Job description

The Senior Manager – Banking & Insurance Consulting role at Sia, based in Abu Dhabi, UAE, is responsible for growing and delivering the Insurance & Banking consulting practice across the GCC. The position combines business development, client leadership, and hands-on engagement delivery. The role entails expanding relationships with banks and insurers, leading pursuits from discovery to contracting, building alliances with technology partners, and creating thought leadership and market-relevant assets. The Senior Manager oversees end-to-end delivery of complex multi-workstream programs, ensuring scope, schedule, budget, quality, and benefits realization, including designing target operating models, process improvements, digital customer journeys, data/analytics use cases, and change management strategies. The role also manages technology-enabled change involving core platforms, integrations, cloud/data, CRM, automation, and AI. Domain expertise covers Banking (retail/commercial lending, payments modernization, core banking transformation, AML/KYC, financial crime, credit risk, finance, and reporting) and Insurance (P&C/Life underwriting, pricing, claims transformation, policy administration/core replacement, distribution/broker experience, finance/actuarial, IFRS 17). The position requires strong knowledge of GCC regulatory frameworks, including SAMA, CBUAE, QCB, CBB, data privacy laws, AML/CFT, FATF, Islamic banking, and Takaful. The role demands leadership in multi-workstream transformations, executive communication, financial and analytical acumen, and the ability to produce client-ready materials in English and Arabic.