Senior Manager - Integration

The role will lead the end-to-end management of integration workstreams arising from the merger of RBL into Emirates NBD, ensuring effective governance, stakeholder alignment, operating model transition, and delivery of integration milestones. The role is responsible for coordinating cross-functional teams, managing risks and dependencies, driving execution of transformation initiatives, and supporting synergy realization to ensure successful delivery of strategic integration objectives while maintaining business continuity and operational stability.

Key Tasks:-

• Develop and maintain integration roadmap and execution framework
• Conduct current-state and target-state assessments across business and support functions
• Define Target Operating Model and transition plans
• Identify integration opportunities, dependencies, and transformation priorities
• Support executive decision-making with business recommendations
• Map the current product approval processes which are running in RBL and gather and analyze the list of product backlog and enhancement items
• Pricing review & competition benchmarking
• Manage existing regulatory requirements which are running and currently in pipeline
• Analyze retail products, identify overlaps, recommend rationalization opportunities wherever possible
• Execute strategy campaigns, business cases with key focus on areas like identify revenue, cost and operational synergy opportunities
• Assess business, operations, and support functions across both organizations to identify integration and centralization opportunities.
• Drive consolidation of Operations, Customer Service, Contact Centre, Finance, HR, Procurement, Compliance, and other support functions.
• Standardize processes, policies, controls, and service delivery models across the merged entity.
• Conduct gap analysis and define target-state operating models to support integration objectives.
• Identify opportunities for process optimization, automation, cost reduction, and operational efficiency improvements.
• Support organizational restructuring, workforce alignment, and transition planning.
• Drive migration of activities to centralized platforms and shared service models.
• Track and realize operational, cost, and resource synergies arising from the merger.
• Coordinate cross-functional stakeholders to manage integration dependencies and ensure seamless execution.
• Monitor business continuity, operational readiness, and service stability throughout the integration lifecycle.
• Establish and maintain governance structures, Steering Committees, and reporting forums to support integration decision-making and program oversight.
• Manage relationships and alignment across Business, Operations, Technology, Risk, Compliance, Finance, HR, and external stakeholders.
• Consolidate business requirements, integration dependencies, risks, and key decisions across workstreams.
• Prepare executive dashboards, RAID logs, status reports, decision papers, governance packs, and portfolio MIS for leadership review.
• Track integration milestones, synergies, dependencies, and benefits realization against approved business cases.
• Facilitate governance reviews and executive forums to resolve cross-functional issues, conflicts, and delivery blockers.
• Ensure timely escalation and resolution of strategic, operational, regulatory, and technology risks impacting integration delivery.
• Monitor adherence to integration governance standards, reporting requirements, and program controls to ensure successful execution.
• Gather inputs on systems and platforms used by RBL currently to eliminate the duplication and conflict of interest
• Track actions, coordinate teams, facilitate workshops and ensure timely delivery of initiatives
• Execute Gap analysis, obtain area of opportunities and enable the desired outputs
• Identify innovative opportunities for Digital and STP products
• Ongoing review & enhancement of existing setup to maximize efficiency and quality
• Understand technology landscapes with respect to application catalogues, architecture catalogues, and interdependencies
• Resolve conflicting business priorities between ENBD and RBL. Timely executive decisions and program alignment with focus on highest-value initiatives
• Escalate any delivery risks and blockers to minimize the delays
• Identify operational, regulatory, conduct and technology risks arising from integration activities
• Maintain integration risk register and mitigation plans
• Ensure alignment with applicable banking regulations and governance frameworks
• Coordinate with Risk, Compliance, Audit and Legal stakeholders
• Monitor implementation of controls and closure of audit observations

Experience & Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline/ MBA (preferred)
• PMP / PRINCE2 And Agile Certification (CSM / SAFe) (Preferred)
• 12+ years of experience with 6+ years in Banking or Financial Services and 3+ years leading large transformation or integration programs
• Merger and acquisition integration (preferred)/ Consultancy Background (Preferred)
• Knowledge & Skills:- Retail & Corporate Banking products, Business Transformation, Digital Banking, RAID Management, Data Analysis, Power BI, Excel, Jira, MS Office
• Must possess good analytical & numerical skills, Program Management, Executive Reporting, Stakeholder Management
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