
HSBC UAE
Senior Control Manager, Governance Lead ā GCIO
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 10 - 15 yrs
- Urgent
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Job expiry date: 28/08/2025
Job overview
Date posted
14/07/2025
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 40,000 - 50,000 per month
Experience
10 - 15 yrs
Seniority
Senior Manager
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
28/08/2025
Job description
The Group CIO Chief Control Office (GCIO CCO) embeds effective risk and control management across GCIO AME Technology. As Senior Control Manager, Governance Lead, you will drive governance responses, develop high-quality insights for risk committees, oversee compliance adherence, and enhance stakeholder accountability in technology risk management. You will support the Global Head of Controls, lead governance frameworks, prepare risk and control meeting packs, represent GCIO in risk forums, deliver executive-ready governance reporting, track action items, strengthen control environments, and partner with regional stakeholders to ensure consistent risk management practices.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Lead the Governance function across Asia and Middle East Technology ensuring robust oversight of risk and control frameworks.
- Develop and support the creation of monthly Technology Risk and Control Management meeting packs, analysing governance processes.
- Represent the organization in group-wide Risk and Control Management working groups and forums.
- Prepare high-quality technology risk and control governance papers, clearly defining risk positions and outline mitigation strategies.
- Lead governance reporting processes, delivering executive-ready insights for senior management and key regulatory discussions.
- Monitor and track governance-related action items from risk management meetings, ensuring timely progress and completion by GCIO functions.
- Strengthen governance frameworks by embedding technology controls and monitoring compliance with regulatory standards.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across Asia and the Middle East, driving consistency in risk management and control implementation.
- Support Risk and Control leadership, assisting with ad-hoc requests, urgent issues, and crisis response.
- Partner with CIOs, risk teams, and business units to ensure governance expectations are effectively communicated and implemented.
- Keep Senior Management informed on policy changes, operational risk developments, and projects impacting their areas of responsibility.
- Establish a strong working relationship with the business, function aligned GCIO areas and their CCO teams.
- Support efforts to continuously improve the control environment, monitoring of risk, including behaviours.
- Help identify trends to anticipate future developments in the risk and control environment.
- Actively raise and challenge poor, inefficient or excessive controls, related tasks and behaviours.
- Support the development and implementation of future-fit risk management frameworks.
Experience & skills
- Deep expertise in technology risk management, governance, and frameworks.
- Understanding of Operational Resilience, Cybersecurity, and IT Risk frameworks (e.g., NIST, COBIT, ITIL).
- Strong written and verbal communication with ability to craft clear, concise, and high impact governance papers.
- Experience working with senior stakeholders, regulatory responses, and cross-functional risk committees.
- Flexible and adaptable being able to manage and prioritise competing demands in a demanding environment.
- High level of attention to detail, and ability to lead activities.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence senior executives and regulatory bodies.
- Experience in governing risk forums, working groups, and technology risk committees.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to execute under pressure, responding to urgent risk matters effectively.
- Certifications such as CGRC, CRISC, COBIT, or ITIL would be desirable.
- Experience with regulatory bodies and engagement is advantageous.
- A Bachelorās Degree is needed in order to obtain a UAE work permit.