Compliance Manager - Deputy MLRO
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About the Role
Manage transaction monitoring, suspicious activity reporting, customer due diligence, and compliance policies while ensuring regulatory adherence and AML training.
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• Transaction Monitoring Ownership
Design, manage, and continuously tune CVUAE s transaction monitoring programme including rule governance, alert prioritisation, threshold calibration, and blockchain analytics producing regular MI on alert volumes, closure rates, and SAR conversion ratios for the MLRO and board.
• Suspicious Activity Reporting
Review and investigate escalated alerts, prepare well-reasoned SAR/STR narratives, and submit filings to the UAE Financial Intelligence Unit (UAEFIU) in a timely and accurate manner, maintaining a complete internal register of all cases filed.
• Customer Risk & Due Diligence
- Oversee day-to-day KYC/CDD operations including EDD reviews for high-risk clients such as PEPs, high-volume traders, and clients from higher-risk jurisdictions, providing guidance to onboarding teams on complex or borderline cases.
- Sanctions Screening:
- Manage the firm s sanctions screening process reviewing and disposing of name-match alerts, maintaining documented screening decisions, and escalating confirmed matches to the MLRO with clear recommendations.
• Deputy MLRO Coverage
Assume full MLRO responsibilities during the Head of Compliance & MLRO s absence, including SAR authorisation, regulatory engagement with the CMA and the UAEFIU, and board-level reporting, maintaining continuity of financial crime oversight at all times.
• Regulatory & Cross-Functional Engagement
Support the preparation of CMA submissions, inspection materials, and supervisory responses; represent the financial crime team in cross-functional forums to embed regulatory and AML requirements into new products, features, and client segments.
• Training & AML Culture
- Design and deliver role-specific AML/CFT training across the organisation, maintain training completion records, and act as a visible subject-matter expert on virtual assets financial crime typologies and evolving regulatory expectations.
- Policy Governance:
- Draft, maintain, and enforce internal compliance policies aligned with CMA rules, FATF recommendations, and international best practices, ensuring the firm s policy framework remains current and fit for purpose.
- Regulatory Documentation:
- Maintain all compliance registers, regulatory calendars, and audit preparedness materials to ensure operational transparency and readiness for CMA inspections and supervisory reviews.
• Regulatory Change Management
Monitor regulatory developments across UAE and relevant international frameworks, ensuring timely updates to internal policies, processes, and controls as obligations evolve.
• Crypto Asset Safeguards
Support the implementation of operational and technical controls to protect client assets, including wallet security protocols and asset segregation requirements.
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