Head of Legal and Compliance - Financial Services

Allegis Group

UAE

Ref: HP602-1514

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

A high profile financial services organisation based in the UAE are looking for an experienced Legal & Compliance professional to take on a key senior role, critical to the continued success and future growth.

Working within a wide-reaching role focused on managing the legal and compliance functions, but with exposure to the operational risk and quality control departments too, there are 4 key objectives to the role:
• To contribute to the leadership and business strategy for the group
• To ensure that business decisions are carried out in line with group risk appetite
• To ensure an appropriate framework is in place to meet regulatory and legal requirements
• To ensure there is an effective, long term quality control and continuous improvement process in place

Requirements

Due to the nature of the role, candidates will need extensive experience as well as local expertise pertaining to the legal and regulatory requirements in the UAE, as well as a strong track record of building and managing relationships with UAE Financial Regulators.

Furthermore, candidates should have a strong network of legal and compliance professionals within the region and should be considered a reputable senior professional within the industry.

Due to the nature of the organisation’s business – candidates should also have relevant commercial experience and knowledge of securitisation and syndication deals, and will ideally have worked as a legal counsel in the region.

This role will also involve reporting to the Board as well as other key, senior board committee on all legal and compliance matters, and as such candidates will need excellent articulation and communication skills, as well as the confidence and gravitas to manage senior stakeholders.

This is an excellent senior appointment with broad exposure across the business, and within a strategic role with great longer term opportunity.

About the Company

Allegis Group retired the "Talent2" name and re-branded its specialist recruitment professionals brand to Aston Carter.

Aston Carter is a distinguished global provider of recruitment services to companies requiring highly specialised business professionals. We have an unrivalled commitment to delivering first class service to our clients and candidates across professional disciplines, including Information Technology, Finance, Sales, Risk, Credit, Compliance, Operations, Marketing, Audit, HR and Engineering. Although we are retiring theTalent2 brand, our continued alignment with your company's business objectives will remain unchanged. As part of Aston Carter, our global presence gives us access to additional high-level talent, solutions and industry trends to better grow with our customers.

With more than 60 offices across Europe, Asia Pacific and North America, Aston Carter provides local, regional and global expertise to drive value and meet our customers' unique needs. Aston Carter is an operating company of Allegis Group, a global talent solutions provider and the world's largest privately owned recruitment firm.

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