Compliance Officer (Financial Services)

Cooper Fitch

Dubai, UAE

Ref: GP932-990

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Compliance Officer, DIFC (Financial Services)

A category three financial services firm in the Dubai International Financial Centre, is recruiting a compliance officer to be part of their growing regulatory team. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the Senior Chief Compliance Officer in ensuring that the firm complies with all relevant external laws and regulations.

Key responsibilities.
- Preparing and providing regular compliance reviews and AML reports to the senior management and Board of Directors.
- Monitoring the company’s systems making sure the business complies with all applicable rules as well as assists in drafting and handling the compliance monitoring programme.
- Assist in risk classification and identifying the high and low risk clients.
- Staying up to date with all new releases from the DFSA, making sure the business is complying with the federal and DFSA legislation.
- Supporting in any sort of preparatory work prior to DFSA review visits.
- To carry out screening of sanctioned entities, conduct investigations and regularly update blacklisted accounts.
- Assist in conducting annual trainings on Compliance and AML

Requirements

- Degree - Banking, Business, Accounting, Finance or Legal related
- 4-6 years of compliance experience
- Knowledge of AML policies, Sanction procedures and the regulatory frameworks

Only candidates with UAE regulatory experience will be considered.

About the Company

At Cooper Fitch, we put the customer at the heart of everything we do. We provide recruitment, executive search and human resources advisory services to thousands of clients across the Middle East, we have been delivering services in the region since 1997. Our team is your team, we firmly believe in delivering first class committed search services. It is our mission to help build the best talent in the market. Our services are tailored to your every need, we have spent nearly twenty years developing an extensive database of top tier talent in the region. We also aim to help you protect and retain your people with our world-class assessment, testing and advisory facilities. We provide both valuable market updates and compensation and benefits analysis to complete the full spectrum of human resources services.

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