Venture Lead - SCVentures (Six Months Contract )

Job description / Role

* The venture is a fintech platform specific to the global migrant workforce in order to provide them with proper mainstream financial services in their country of residence.
* We exploring to find a lead who can help us on the ground with finding potential partners start to engage with them on a local level in UAE.

Our Ideal Candidate

Knowledge & Skills

* International exposure, ability to handle cultural diversity and developing high performers are essential to this role.
* Having some operations experience and applied financial discipline to real life problems is an advantage
* Experience in facilitating client engagements and co-creation
* able to identify early signals of success, strengths and weaknesses
* Experience in Technology at senior level with a deep understanding of technology processes, funding options, estimating, resource management
* Must possess sharp business acumen, including ability to assess risk and appropriate levels of return
* Strong leadership qualities, excellent interpersonal skills and multi-cultural awareness and sensitivity; able to lead a small but complex team based in multiple geographies
* Strong communicator; able to communicate complex, often vague topics in a compelling manner
* Able to see the big picture (may need to be specific here)
* Attention to detail - without drowning in them
* Influential - able to deal with some strong-willed stakeholders
* Gather resources, knowledge, and research the market to define a right product mix for the market.
* Lead the Product and define short & long term vision for the product.
* Make product blue-prints, explain the features to internal and external teams to ensure product's success.
* Work closely with technology teams to ensure new strategies & product features are implemented accurately.
* Ensuring adherence to risk, regulatory & compliance requirements related to the product & the business.
* Ensure the business is compliant with marketing & regulatory requirements
* Establish strategic partnerships and connectivity with Zodia in order to reach the ambitious user growth targets.
* Ensure company objectives and standards of performance are not only understood but owned by management and employees in all departments.
* Launch new features of the product in market.

Requirements

* Professionally recognised academic or Professional Qualifications
* Experienced in financial services & FinTech companies
* Proficiency in English (written and spoken)

About the Company

Standard Chartered Bank started in 1958 in UAE with its first branch in Sharjah. The Group’s business gradually increased in Dubai with the opening of several branches and today, Dubai is the administrative hub of the Middle East and South Asia Region. In its 43rd year, the Bank enjoys the position of having the most extensive branch network among foreign international banks in UAE with 10 branches emirate-wide.

Standard Chartered is an international bank, focused on the established and emerging markets of Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America with an extensive global network of more than 600 offices in over 50 countries. The three principal business groups are Global Markets, Personal Banking and Corporate and Institutional Banking.

In UAE, we are one of the leading banks, offering an extensive range of products and services for personal customers, local companies, multinational corporate and financial institutions.