🕒 5 days ago
The Compliance Officer reviews KYC cases, assesses client risk, investigates screening and transaction-monitoring alerts, and improves compliance processes and technology, including through AI.
Compliance and Financial Crime Manager - Payments
📅 Dec 5, 2025
📍 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates - Remote🎹 Mid-level🛡️ Compliance Specialist📢 🇬🇧 English Required💼 Full-Time
ComplianceAMLFinancial CrimeKYC
📜 Description
- Conduct customer onboarding, periodic reviews and enhanced due diligence in line with internal AML/KYC standards.
- Coordinate and draft responses to information requests from partners, financial institutions and regulators.
- Support the management of customer complaints and ensure compliance with relevant consumer protection standards.
- Support internal and external suspicious activity reporting, ensuring accurate documentation and timely escalation.
🛠️ Requirements
- 3–5 years’ experience in Compliance, AML or Financial Crime within fintech, payments or financial services.
- Strong understanding of AML/CFT frameworks, KYC processes and regulatory expectations across multiple jurisdictions.
- Hands-on experience with transaction monitoring, screening tools and SAR/STR reporting.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including report writing and stakeholder liaison.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-moving, international business.
- Practical, solutions-oriented approach with the ability to balance commercial and risk considerations.
- Fluency in English required; additional languages are an advantage.
- Monitor alerts across transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, PEPs and adverse media, escalating cases as required.
- Prepare and submit AML/CFT reports and other regulatory filings as required.
Full job description
About the Company
A rapidly growing fintech operating in the global payments space is seeking a Compliance Manager to support its expanding operations. The organisation provides innovative cross-border payment solutions designed to improve the speed, reliability and transparency of international transactions for businesses. The company operates across multiple jurisdictions and is building a best-in-class compliance framework to support its growth.
About the Opportunity
The Compliance Manager will play a key role in supporting the global compliance function, with responsibility for day-to-day compliance operations, regulatory adherence and customer due diligence across the company’s international footprint.
This is a hands-on role working closely with senior compliance leadership to ensure the business meets its AML/CFT obligations and maintains strong relationships with regulators, partners and counterparties.
Requirements
Requirements
- 3–5 years’ experience in Compliance, AML or Financial Crime within fintech, payments or financial services.
- Strong understanding of AML/CFT frameworks, KYC processes and regulatory expectations across multiple jurisdictions.
- Hands-on experience with transaction monitoring, screening tools and SAR/STR reporting.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including report writing and stakeholder liaison.
- Ability to work independently in a fast-moving, international business.
- Practical, solutions-oriented approach with the ability to balance commercial and risk considerations.
- Fluency in English required; additional languages are an advantage.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct customer onboarding, periodic reviews and enhanced due diligence in line with internal AML/KYC standards.
- Monitor alerts across transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, PEPs and adverse media, escalating cases as required.
- Coordinate and draft responses to information requests from partners, financial institutions and regulators.
- Support the management of customer complaints and ensure compliance with relevant consumer protection standards.
- Prepare and submit AML/CFT reports and other regulatory filings as required.
- Support internal and external suspicious activity reporting, ensuring accurate documentation and timely escalation.
- Review potential fraud cases and work with internal teams to support investigations and resolutions.
- Assist with maintaining and enhancing internal compliance policies, procedures and workflows.
- Produce compliance metrics and management information for internal reporting.
- Deliver or support the delivery of AML and compliance training to staff.
- Partner with commercial and onboarding teams to assess new business opportunities and review customer files.
- Assist with regulatory engagement, audits, and licence applications or renewals.
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