Job description

The Director – Privileged Client Banking at First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) is responsible for growing and managing large account portfolios and sensitive client relationships within the Privileged Client Banking (PCG) segment under the Personal, Business, Wealth and Privileged Client Banking Group. The role focuses on improving service quality, supervising subordinates’ day-to-day activities and client interactions, and achieving revenue targets while maintaining client satisfaction, targeted NPS scores, and portfolio credit quality. Key accountabilities include conducting financial analysis across geographies, industries, and markets to identify opportunities and risks; onboarding new clients; originating new business opportunities across corporate and investment banking products in line with policies; developing Term Sheets, Information Memorandums, and Mandate Letters; collaborating with credit, product, Global Transaction Banking (GTB), Global Markets (GM), and Global Corporate Finance (GCF) stakeholders to close deals; and examining credit, market, and operational risk aspects of transactions. The Director maintains credit quality within acceptable levels set by management, pitches and negotiates deals, prepares and maintains Account Plans, drives cross-selling and cross-BU collaboration, supports international banking alignment, and manages KYC and AML compliance requirements. Operational responsibilities include conducting periodic credit, operational and compliance risk reviews, ensuring timely credit submissions, maintaining audit standards, adhering to ORM, BCP, Internal Audit requirements and process KPIs, preparing accurate reports, and overseeing documentation and pipeline updates. The role requires deep knowledge of the Corporate and Investment Banking sector, understanding of FAB’s product offerings and business strategy, strong financial and credit analysis capability, financial modelling and data analysis expertise, proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), and leadership capability to act as a role model and achieve financial performance targets.