
Assistant Manager, FX & Cash Management Sales
Job Description
Emirates Islamic is a Shari'a-compliant Islamic bank (part of Emirates NBD Group) offering integrated banking and financial solutions aligned with Islamic principles.
**Role Overview**
As Assistant Manager for FX & Cash Management Sales, you'll partner with Relationship Managers, Treasury, Product, Operations, and frontline teams to identify growth opportunities with SME and Business Banking clients. Your focus will be designing and deploying tailored FX, payments, collections, and digital cash-management solutions while driving activation, customer adoption, and revenue delivery.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Partner with Relationship Managers and frontline teams to identify FX and cash-management opportunities through portfolio reviews, client calls, and referrals; structure and present tailored solutions with pricing negotiated within bank policies.
- Promote adoption of Emirates Islamic digital and transaction banking platforms (Smart Trade, host-to-host integration, cheque scanning, cash pickup, cheque printing) to reduce manual servicing and accelerate digital usage.
- Lead customer onboarding, training and activation for cash-management services; coordinate with Product, IT, Operations and Business Support to enhance propositions and ensure platform readiness.
- Ensure all solutions comply with Shariah, regulatory, AML and risk-management standards; obtain necessary approvals and provide market-trend and competitive feedback to product and treasury teams.
- Monitor revenue performance, pipeline and MIS reporting against assigned FX and Cash Management targets; track digital cash-management adoption and service quality improvements.
- Coach and enable Relationship Managers on transactional banking capabilities, sales tools, and pipeline management.
**Requirements & Qualifications**
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Banking, Business Administration or related field (ACT-CertICM certification desirable).
- 4–6 years of banking experience serving SME/Business Banking clients in the UAE/GCC region, with at least 3 years in FX sales, Cash Management or Transaction Banking.
- Strong knowledge of FX products, pricing structures, margins and Treasury coordination.
- In-depth understanding of cash-management solutions, digital channels and implementation processes.
- Proven sales, negotiation and presentation skills; track record of revenue generation and pipeline management.
- Ability to analyse MIS data, portfolio flows, revenue leakage and campaign performance.
- Working knowledge of Shariah, regulatory, AML and operational risk frameworks in the UAE.
- Excellent English communication (Arabic proficiency preferred); strong collaboration and matrix-environment experience; proactive, results-oriented approach.
**What's Offered**
Emirates Islamic emphasizes talent development, Emiratization programmes, and maintains a diverse workplace representing over 60 nationalities. Salary details are available upon application.