Allied Irish Bank
- Location:
- Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
- Salary:
- Competitive
- Type:
- Permanent
- Main Industry:
- Search Finance, Banking & Insurance Jobs
- Other Industries & Skills:
- Purchasing & Supply Chain, Recruitment
- Advertiser:
- Allied Irish Bank
- Job ID:
- 131678110
- Posted On:
- 13 March 2025
Role: Technical Renewals Specialist
Location: Hybrid working, which will include a blend of onsite (Central Park, Dublin) and remote working
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-Are interested in joining a dynamic team of Technology Finance Professionals?
-Would you like to work in a fast-paced, collaborative and supportive work environment, dedicated to providing exceptional service?
-Do you have a results-focused approach, thrive on challenges, and can work independently while contributing effectively to a team?
What is the Role:
The Planning, Performance & Engagement team within Technology & Data has a key role in enabling the Bank’s strategy by driving transparency, consistency, and accountability across all Technology & Data functions. The renewals and partner billing team are a vital function, who are responsible for managing the Technology & Data operational expenditure budget, engaging with technology teams areas to provide assurance & insight.
The suitable candidate will actively lead out on software and hardware support renewals, including liaising with strategic sourcing and technical owners. They will support the end-to-end monthly billing validation process for in-scope partners, including liaising with technical owners and the relevant internal finance teams as required. The Risk profile for Planning, Performance & Engagement has expanded, and it is envisaged that this role will absorb an element of the workload and support the Performance & Engagement risk governance team. The role presents an exciting opportunity to an experienced professional who is eager to join a dynamic and driven team who operate best in class design thinking and practices.
Key Accountabilities:
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-Managing a portfolio of software and hardware support renewals, including commercial negotiations with vendors, internal AIB stakeholder management, and adherence to budget constraints.
-Supporting the billing validation processes for in scope partners, including stakeholder management and timely financial reporting.
-Prioritising tasks correctly and performing well under time constraints.
-Building close, constructive relationships with all stakeholders within the business, other internal departments and partner organisations.
-Developing and maintaining strong relationships with colleagues across multiple areas in Technology & Data and wider organisation to ensure that the Technology & Data platform is appropriately positioned from a risk governance & financial management perspective.
-Supporting the smooth running of a risk governance function, including tracking of updates to the risk registers, tracking action plans, preparing meeting packs and minutes, co-ordinating with internal stakeholders, etc.
What you will bring:
-Minimum of 5 years’ experience working in a Finance / Procurement / Risk role with experience working within small and large teams and across a range of functions.
-Proven track record in analysis and problem-solving skills with ability to perform meaningful analysis and recommend practical solutions.
-Proven track record with steering & governance driving transparency, responsibility, and accountability.
-Strong working knowledge of similar frameworks is an advantage – specifically payments processing systems and/or risk governance frameworks.
-Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation, negotiation and relationship management.
Why Work for AIB
We are committed to offering our colleagues choice and flexibility in how we work and live and our hybrid working model enables our people to balance their time between working from home and their designated office, subject to their role, the needs of our customers and business requirements.
Some of our benefits include:
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-Market leading Pension Scheme
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-Healthcare Scheme
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-Variable Pay
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-Employee Assistance Programme
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-Family leave options
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-Two volunteer days per year
Key Capabilities
Behavioural Capabilities:
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-Negotiation & Influence: Engages in discussion to reach an agreement and create outcomes, affecting the action, behaviours, or opinions of others.
-Troubleshooting: Analysing and interpreting often considerable amounts of data to assess key issues and leading out on the action plan to address same. Demonstrates a concern for accuracy and thoroughness so that sufficiently detailed information is logged correctly.
-Risk Analysis: Utilises the standard risk framework and methods to determine materiality of risks; drives and facilitates structured risk evaluation processes and dialogue with stakeholders to establish risk severity ratings and remediation decisions.
Technical Capabilities
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-Customer Focus: Gains insight into customer needs. Identifies opportunities that benefit the customer. Builds and delivers solutions that meet customer expectations.
-Drives Vision and Purpose: Articulates the vision in a way everyone can relate to. Shows personal commitment to the vision, embraces a growth mindset and recognises that the organisation is always evolving.
-Relationship Management: Cultivates and maintains business relationships, partnerships and alliances internally, externally and virtually with key stakeholders.
If you are not sure about your suitability based on any aspects of the role advertised, we encourage you to the Recruiter for this role, Tim , at careersaib.ie for a conversation.
AIB is an equal opportunities employer, and we pride ourselves on being the first bank in Ireland to receive the Investors in Diversity Gold Standard accreditation from the Irish Centre for Diversity. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees. Should you have a reasonable accommodation request Apply the Talent Acquisition team at internal.selectionaib.ie or careersaib.ie
Disclaimer:
Unsolicited CV’s sent to AIB by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this position. AIB operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our recruitment partners.
Application deadline : Friday the 21st of March 2025
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