Job Description

Job Title: Head of Compliance & MLRO

Job Description: As a Head of Compliance & MLRO (m/f/d), you will hold senior accountability for the AML and regulatory-compliance framework of a UAE payments business, managing regulatory submissions, financial-crime controls, suspicious-activity decisions, board reporting, and collaboration across product, technology, legal, and operations teams.

Responsibilities:

• Manage regulatory submissions and engagement with UAE financial-intelligence and supervisory authorities
• Oversee goAML reporting and the governance of suspicious-transaction and suspicious-activity submissions
• Design and operationalize AML and CFT controls aligned with UAE and applicable financial-centre requirements
• Set and review transaction-monitoring, name-screening, and sanctions-screening rules
• Lead control tuning, quality assurance, case escalation, and financial-crime decision-making
• Maintain case governance and act as the senior point of contact during regulatory reviews
• Deliver AML training, compliance governance, management information, and board-level reporting
• Work with product, technology, legal, and operations teams to embed compliance into payments processes

Qualifications Needed:

• Direct experience with UAE regulatory expectations, financial-intelligence reporting, and goAML is required
• Current or recent experience as an MLRO or senior AML leader within a UAE-licensed payments, fintech, or financial institution
• Demonstrated experience building or scaling an AML framework in an early-stage or high-growth organization
• Strong financial-crime judgement covering customer exits, product risk, investigations, and regulatory examinations
• Knowledge of payments typologies, cross-border activity, trust and corporate-service providers, and free-zone risks
• ACAMS or an equivalent financial-crime qualification is preferred

What the Company Offers:

• Full MLRO accountability within a licensed, high-growth payments environment
• Board-level visibility and a central role in regulatory and financial-crime governance
• Broad exposure to cross-border payments, product risk, control design, and regulatory engagement

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