Head - Global Markets Middle Office
Posted date [2026-05-28]
(ID: 45689)
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Job Description and Requirements
Head - Global Markets Middle OfficeJob Snapshot
* Role: Head - Global Markets Middle Office
* Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
* Industry: Banking
* Function: Risk Management
* Experience: Senior-level banking experience
* Job Type: Full-time
Position Overview
Head - Global Markets Middle Office in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates is a Banking leadership role focused on trade lifecycle oversight, operational risk controls, middle office governance, trade validation, exceptions management, and stakeholder coordination across Global Markets products. This opportunity is designed for a senior banking professional who can lead regional dealer assist teams, strengthen control discipline, and ensure accurate trade processing from execution through settlement, reconciliation, reporting, and management information.
Job Details
Country: United Arab Emirates
City: Abu Dhabi
Industry: Banking
Function: Risk Management
Salary: 45000-65000
Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-time
Role Context
The Head - Global Markets Middle Office will oversee the full trade lifecycle for Global Markets activity, ensuring that trades are captured, validated, amended, confirmed, settled, reconciled, and reported with strong control standards. The role is central to protecting book integrity, reducing settlement risk, preventing operational losses, and supporting accurate P and L outcomes.
This leadership position will manage a broad middle office structure covering client activation, data readiness, trade execution controls, dealer assist functions, exceptions management, reconciliation, collateral and margin principles, and internal and regulatory reporting. The successful candidate will work closely with trading desks, risk teams, compliance, operations, documentation, credit, KYC, reference data, custodians, clearing houses, executing brokers, and counterparties.
Key Responsibilities
* Oversee the end-to-end trade lifecycle for all Global Markets products across booking, validation, confirmation, settlement, reconciliation, and reporting stages.
* Ensure trades are captured accurately in front-office systems and processed correctly through back-office and control platforms.
* Monitor trade discrepancies, breaks, mismatches, and exceptions to ensure timely resolution before they create settlement failures or P and L issues.
* Establish and enforce a strong operational control framework to reduce trade errors, failed transactions, and financial loss events.
* Lead trade exception management, break investigation, root-cause analysis, and corrective action tracking.
* Implement control checks that support data accuracy, trade integrity, account allocation discipline, and position consistency.
* Reassess operational risks as market conditions, regulatory expectations, product activity, and internal control requirements evolve.
* Review Key Risk Indicators, including error rates, failed trades, operational incidents, and control breaches.
* Build a zero-tolerance culture for avoidable control lapses, late escalation, and unmanaged operational risk.
* Lead regional dealer assist and middle office teams across trade support, collateral operations, client activation, reconciliation, and reporting functions.
* Manage team managers and staff through performance objectives, mentoring, skills development, and succession planning.
* Ensure the middle office team is appropriately resourced, trained, engaged, and prepared for current and future Global Markets business needs.
* Coordinate client activation and data readiness with COO KYC, Reference Data, Credit, Global Markets Documentation, and other internal functions.
* Manage timely setup of new client relationships and ensure required operational readiness before trading activity begins.
* Supervise trade execution controls, including booking timeliness, client account allocation, portfolio allocation, dealer position integrity, and sales position accuracy.
* Perform or oversee same-day trade validations to ensure FAB books remain accurate and controlled.
* Govern post-trade amendments, cancellations, and related approval controls.
* Monitor off-market trades, counterparty exposure indicators, and exception trends requiring escalation.
* Manage failed trade monitoring, alleged trade follow-up, trade lifecycle events, credit events, collateral matters, and margin-related principles.
* Oversee regulatory reporting, internal dashboards, Key Risk Indicator reporting, and Key Performance Indicator reporting solutions.
* Communicate operational status, risk themes, escalations, and improvement plans to senior Front Office, Risk, Compliance, and Operations stakeholders.
* Liaise with clients, counterparties, prime brokerage clients, custodians, clearing houses, and executing brokers on operational issues and break resolution.
* Function within group policies, organizational governance frameworks, and approved authorization matrix requirements.
Ideal Profile
* Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics, Banking, or a related field.
* Senior-level experience in Global Markets middle office, trade support, operations control, dealer assist, treasury operations, or markets operations leadership.
* Strong understanding of Global Markets products, trade lifecycle processes, front-to-back trade flow, settlement controls, and reconciliation standards.
* Proven ability to manage operational risk, trade exceptions, control frameworks, KRIs, KPIs, and governance reporting.
* Experience leading teams across middle office, trade support, collateral operations, reconciliation, reporting, or client activation functions.
* Strong working knowledge of trade booking, same-day validation, post-trade amendment controls, cancellation governance, and position integrity.
* Ability to engage senior trading desk leaders, risk management heads, compliance officers, operations executives, and external market infrastructure stakeholders.
* Excellent analytical skills with the ability to investigate breaks, identify root causes, and implement practical control improvements.
* Strong leadership capability with experience in performance management, mentoring, training, succession planning, and team engagement.
* Comfortable operating in a fast-paced Global Markets environment where accuracy, control, escalation, and timeliness are critical.
* Strong communication and stakeholder management skills for internal committees, business escalation, client interactions, and external counterparty discussions.
Skills Set
* Global Markets middle office
* Trade lifecycle oversight
* Trade booking controls
* Same-day trade validation
* Dealer assist operations
* Trade confirmation
* Trade settlement
* Reconciliation
* Exception management
* Break investigation
* Failed trade monitoring
* Alleged trade monitoring
* Post-trade amendment governance
* Trade cancellation controls
* Operational risk management
* KRI reporting
* KPI reporting
* Management information reporting
* Regulatory reporting
* Client activation
* Data readiness
* KYC coordination
* Reference data coordination
* Credit coordination
* Global Markets documentation
* Counterparty exposure monitoring
* Off-market trade monitoring
* Collateral and margin management
* P and L integrity
* Position integrity
* Stakeholder management
* Team leadership
* Control framework development
Why Join Us
This role offers senior-level exposure to Global Markets operations within a major Banking institution in Abu Dhabi. It provides the opportunity to lead a high-impact middle office function, shape trade control standards, improve front-to-back operating discipline, and work directly with trading, risk, compliance, operations, and external market stakeholders.
The position is ideal for a markets operations leader who wants to influence control culture, develop regional teams, strengthen operational resilience, and support the safe growth of Global Markets activity in a highly regulated financial environment.
About the Company
First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) is one of the UAE’s leading financial institutions, providing Banking services across corporate, investment, retail, private banking, and global markets. FAB supports clients through strong governance, advanced financial solutions, regional market expertise, and a commitment to operational excellence across the UAE and wider international banking landscape.
