Senior Analyst, Compliance Advisory

Company Description

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If you want to do career-defining work, you've come to the right place. We move fast, think globally, and believe great teams are built by hiring exceptional people with conviction, curiosity, and the desire to make an impact.

With 20 offices across six continents and London as our HQ, we're shaping the future of fintech - and we're just getting started.

THE ROLE

The Senior Analyst, Financial Crime Compliance is a subject matter expert in the second line of defence, supporting the MLRO in managing and strengthening the Financial Crime Compliance function in the UAE. The role provides expert advisory and judgement on high-risk clients and complex escalations, acts as a strategic partner to Sales, Onboarding, Transaction Monitoring, Legal and Product, and helps ensure adherence to UAE AML/CFT/CPF, sanctions and payments regulations.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

• Provide operational advisory on high risk clients, whether at onboarding, periodic review or trigger event, and deliver justified opinions and recommendations. This includes EDD cases, merchant change requests and screening alerts, with CDD/EDD rigorously performed and documented.
• Present well justified risk recommendations to the MLRO, DMLRO.
• Investigate alerts reported to Compliance, partner with the Financial Crime Investigations Unit (FCIU) and Transaction Monitoring on escalations, and review internal unusual a…