Risk Management Specialist (Emiratized) - Stress Testing

About the role

First Abu Dhabi Bank is looking for a Risk Management Specialist (Emiratized) to support its ICAAP and Stress Testing unit. The role helps run and continuously improve the bank's enterprise-wide stress testing programme, while building practical knowledge of enterprise risk management.

Key responsibilities

• Support recurring enterprise-wide and portfolio-level stress testing, including data preparation, scenario application, consolidation and review of results under supervision.
• Coordinate with Finance, Risk, Business, Treasury and other stakeholders to obtain complete, accurate and timely inputs in approved templates.
• Perform data-quality checks, reconciliations, variance analysis and reasonableness reviews, keeping clear evidence of controls, assumptions and issue resolution.
• Analyse stress-test impacts on capital, profitability, credit quality and key risk indicators, and help investigate material movements and concentrations.
• Prepare management information, dashboards, presentations and committee materials for the Stress Testing unit and governance forums.
• Provide analytical and administrative support for ICAAP, risk appetite monitoring, recovery planning and other regulatory or internal risk assessments.
• Maintain process documentation, data dictionaries, working papers and records of submissions, reviews and approvals.
• Keep action trackers, follow up on items from management review, audit or regulatory feedback, and identify ways to simplify templates and improve data quality.
• Undertake ad hoc risk-analysis assignments for the Stress Testing unit.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Analytics or a related discipline.
• Basic understanding of financial statements, banking or risk-management concepts, with a strong interest in stress testing and enterprise risk.
• Good numerical and analytical ability, attention to detail and a structured approach to problem-solving.
• Clear written and verbal communication and willingness to work with colleagues across Risk, Finance and Business.
• Curiosity, integrity, ownership and a willingness to learn through guidance, feedback and on-the-job training.

Required skills

• Good working knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint.
• Exposure to other financial tools and platforms is an advantage.