Compliance Manager
Role Overview
The Compliance Manager strengthens compliance across a diversified portfolio of passive international fund investments and strategic assets in the UAE.
The role requires sound judgment, a global regulatory perspective, and the ability to work across complex investment structures.
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About the organization
Emirates Investment Authority is the UAE Federal Government’s sovereign wealth fund, investing across diversified asset classes and global markets.
The organization focuses on long-term value, safeguarding its interests, governance, oversight, and disciplined risk management.
Role overview
The Compliance Manager strengthens compliance across a diversified portfolio of passive international fund investments and strategic assets in the UAE.
The role requires sound judgment, a global regulatory perspective, and the ability to work across complex investment structures.
Responsibilities
- Oversee portfolio compliance and ensure adherence to international best practices and applicable U.S., EU, and UAE regulations.
- Protect organizational interests, mitigate compliance and investment risk exposure, and conduct due diligence on investment opportunities.
- Build and maintain compliance frameworks, policies, standards, procedures, and investment compliance checklists.
- Review investment guidelines and side-letter obligations; conduct periodic compliance risk assessments and corrective actions.
- Lead compliance and sanctions incident investigations and reporting and present reports, risks, and mitigations to senior management and board-level stakeholders.
- Deliver compliance training to internal teams, board members, and portfolio companies.
- Collaborate with legal, risk, strategic assets, and investment teams and support automated compliance monitoring solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in law, finance, business, or a related field; a relevant master’s degree is a plus.
- At least 8 years of compliance experience in a sovereign wealth fund, investment company, or regulatory agency.
- Deep expertise in U.S. and EU fund compliance, AML/KYC, sanctions regulations, and Cayman Islands regulatory requirements.
- Familiarity with regulatory practices for private and publicly listed assets in the UAE.
- Experience in investment compliance due diligence, investment guidelines and side-letter review, and periodic risk assessments and corrective actions.
- ICA or CAMS certification is a bonus.
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