Job Description

What you'll be doing

• Developing and implementing our compliance management system, particularly in relation to delivering compliant customer outcomes, reviewing marketing communications, and analyzing complaints
• Working closely with global Regulatory Compliance Managers to ensure that local risk management frameworks and processes are aligned with global ones and deliver the intended outcome
• Identifying regulatory issues proactively and recommending remedies to promote compliance
• Creating, assessing, and implementing policies from scratch
• Preparing responses to ad hoc regulatory requests and ensuring the highest reporting standards are maintained
• Preparing licensing materials and drafting ad hoc NOCs as appropriate
• Supporting the Group Head of FinCrime to provide effective oversight of 2LOD regional and local MLRO teams and 1LOD FinCrime teams
• Ensuring FinCrime risks are considered in our day-to-day operations, including the development of new products and onboarding of new customers
• Participating in FinCrime-related governance committees to effectively check-and-challenge initiative owners, identifying potential issues and proposing solutions
• Maintaining strong relations with regulators and ensuring we are up to date and compliant with an ever-changing regulatory landscape

What you'll need

• Fluency in English with excellent communication skills
• 6+ years of FinCrime (AML/CTF and Sanctions) and regulatory compliance experience, covering a wide range of subjects across retail and business customer bases, such as KYC, CDD/EDD, Transaction Monitoring, Risk Assessments, Reporting (SARs), and Regulatory Reporting
• Experience in compliance risk management within a consultancy, compliance function, or regulator
• Strong knowledge of UAE financial services regulations, covering onshore and financial freezone regulators
• Strong knowledge and experience of identifying financial crime risks and potential vulnerabilities, advising on best practices to effectively and efficiently address those findings
• Knowledge of how to conduct regulatory gap analysis, policy creation and implementation
• Knowledge and experience in the regulatory requirements relating to payments, and a willingness and passion to develop knowledge and expertise in the other areas (crypto, privacy, etc.)