FX Specialist

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Emirates NBD is hiring an FX Specialist to activate FX for SME clients and grow wallet share across products, onsite in the UAE. The role focuses on maintaining client relationships, coaching relationship managers, and collaborating with product partners while applying best practices to assess product and reputation risk. You should bring 5-7 years of relevant experience, an MBA in Finance or a Bachelor’s degree, deep knowledge of FX offerings for SMEs, and strong analytical, networking, and Arabic language skills. Demonstrating measurable cross-sell success and weekly client engagement helps. Tailor your resume to highlight cross-sell results, risk management, and regional market insight, and show collaboration and adaptability to ENBD’s digital, flexible environment.

About ENBD 

Emirates NBD is a market leader across the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye) region with a presence in 13 countries, serving over 9 million customers. Emirates NBD is the leading financial services brand in the UAE with a Brand value of approximately USD 4 billion. We serve our customers and help them realise their financial objectives through a range of banking products and services including retail banking, corporate & institutional banking, Islamic banking, investment banking, private banking, asset management, global markets and treasury, and brokerage operations. We are a key participant in the global digital banking industry, with 97% of all financial transactions and requests conducted outside of our branches. We also operate Liv, the lifestyle digital bank by Emirates NBD. With over half a million users, it continues to be the fastest-growing digital bank in the region.

Job Overview:

The FX Specialist will be responsible for activating not only New to FX but also increasing the share of wallet by cross selling new products under the product basket.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Maintain close contact and relationship with respective portfolios of customers such that we remain one of main bank getting their major share of wallet.
• Support Head of Cross sell with market feedback to develop differentiated sales and business development approach for different regions.
• Assess product risk, reputation risk and product suitability by deploying global best practices.
• Coach Business Banking Relationship Managers to enhance FX business generation opportunities.
• Ensure optimum client calls are conducted on a weekly basis to maximize primary transaction banking sales.
• Work closely with all products and channel partners from retail banking to maximize opportunities provided through regular contact, feedback, co-ordination and cross referrals.

Skills and Experience 

•  Preferably a management graduate with 5-7 years relevant working experience. MBA in Finance or Bachelor's degree (Essential)
• In-depth knowledge of Fx products, services & delivery channels available for SME customers in the region
• Analytical thinking (Uses information to come up with solution or recommendation), Forward thinking, fair minded.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, networking and financial management skills. Informed in market competition, industry practices and regulations for Business banking.
• Arabic Speaker is a must. 

There’s never been a better time to join Emirates NBD. 

We’re one of the region’s most recognisable brands. We’re banking innovation leaders. We’re growing across both the UAE and our global offices. We offer a huge range of professional development opportunities to accelerate your career. It also goes without saying that we provide extremely competitive rewards, benefits and perks too, like our flexible work policy so you can work from home whenever it suits.

At ENBD, we encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for positions that match their skills and capabilities. 

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