Manager – Finance Product Ownership Islamic Banking

Act as a finance product owner for assigned Islamic Banking activities and support the delivery of business and technology change. The role brings together finance, product, operations, risk and Sharia stakeholders to ensure that decisions, processes and outputs remain consistent with the Islamic Banking model. The Manager will coordinate programme governance, assess impacts on products and controls, maintain delivery traceability and monitor testing and implementation readiness. A strong understanding of Islamic finance structures and banking accounting is important, together with the ability to manage complex dependencies and resolve issues constructively.

Key Responsibilities

• Own assigned finance workstreams within the Islamic Banking programme and coordinate activity across relevant stakeholders.
• Maintain programme governance, track decisions, monitor milestones and provide clear reports on progress, dependencies and issues.
• Assess the impact of proposed changes on Islamic products, processes, controls, accounting treatment and regulatory or Sharia reporting.
• Coordinate with product, finance, risk, compliance, operations, data and technology teams to ensure requirements are understood.
• Maintain traceability between business requirements, solution decisions, controls, testing evidence and expected outcomes.
• Monitor user acceptance testing, reconciliation, Sharia readiness and implementation activities.
• Escalate delivery risks and unresolved issues and support practical resolution with the responsible teams.
• Contribute to team development, process improvement and consistent application of relevant policies and service standards.

Requirements and Experience

• At least six years of relevant experience in Islamic banking, banking, financial services, finance, risk, compliance or complex transformation programmes.
• Knowledge of Islamic finance accounting, reporting, financial structures and Sharia principles is important.
• Experience with programme governance, requirements management, reconciliation, UAT and evidence-based delivery is beneficial.
• Relevant qualifications such as ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA, AAOIFI CSAA, IFQ, FRM, CISA, CISM, CRISC, CISSP or CDPSE are advantageous.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Risk, Law, Computer Science, Information Security, Data or a related field is required.

Skills and Competencies

• Islamic banking products and finance principles.
• Finance product ownership and programme governance.
• Sharia readiness, controls and regulatory reporting.
• Requirements traceability, UAT and stakeholder coordination.