Job Description

Job Title: Money Laundering Reporting Officer

Job Description: As a Money Laundering Reporting Officer at Tamara, the leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC region and Saudi’s first fintech unicorn, you will oversee the financial crime compliance framework for a finance company licensed and regulated by the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE). Reporting directly to the Head of Compliance, UAE, you will operate as a senior and independent second line control function supporting the identification, assessment, management, monitoring, and reporting of money laundering and related financial crime risks .

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and oversee the company’s AML, CFT, CPF, targeted financial sanctions, and financial crime compliance framework, ensuring alignment with UAE laws and CBUAE requirements
• Lead the company’s institutional money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing risk assessment covering customers, products, merchants, delivery channels, geographies, technology, and new business activities
• Establish second line requirements for customer identification, verification, due diligence, enhanced due diligence, beneficial ownership, and source of funds
• Provide oversight and challenge of first line onboarding controls, review high-risk cases, and advise Senior Management before decisions are taken to onboard or retain high-risk customers
• Maintain oversight of sanctions, PEPs, watchlist, and adverse media screening requirements
• Oversee the effectiveness of transaction monitoring arrangements, including scenarios, thresholds, alert handling, and case management
• Assess internal suspicious transaction referrals, determine whether external reporting is required, and submit STRs to the UAE FIU through approved reporting channels
• Act as a key point of contact for the CBUAE, the UAE FIU, and other relevant UAE authorities on AML, CFT, CPF, sanctions, and financial crime matters

Qualifications Needed:

• 8 or more years of relevant experience in AML, CFT, sanctions, or financial crime compliance gained within a regulated financial institution, fintech, finance company, bank, or payment service provider
• Demonstrated experience engaging with the CBUAE in a comparable financial crime compliance role
• Deep understanding of UAE AML, CFT, CPF, and sanctions laws and CBUAE requirements
• Experience leading institutional money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing risk assessments
• Strong knowledge of customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, and sanctions screening requirements
• Experience with transaction monitoring systems and suspicious transaction reporting processes
• Excellent regulatory engagement and governance reporting capabilities

What the Company Offers:

• MLRO role at Saudi’s first fintech unicorn serving millions of users across KSA, UAE, and Kuwait
• Opportunity to lead financial crime compliance for a leading fintech platform backed by Sanabil Investments and Checkout.com
• Senior position with direct regulatory engagement with CBUAE and UAE authorities

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