Compliance Operations & AML Specialist

About the RoleSupport the Compliance & Legal Director in the day-to-day execution, monitoring, and maintenance of the Company's AML/CFT, compliance operations, and regulatory control framework. ResponsibilitiesAML/KYC: Review KYC/KYB cases; conduct EDD; review PEP and sanctions screening alerts; conduct source of funds/source of wealth reviews; perform customer risk classification and periodic reviews; escalate high-risk customers; and maintain AML records.Transaction Monitoring: Monitor transaction alerts; review unusual deposits and withdrawals, rapid movement of funds, crypto deposit/withdrawal activity, use of multiple payment methods, attempted third-party payments, and IB-related unusual activity; prepare escalation reports; and maintain investigation records.IB Compliance Operations: Conduct KYC/KYB for IB onboarding, jurisdictional and sanctions screening, marketing reviews, commission and activity monitoring, identification of suspicious referral patterns, review of commission withdrawals, and periodic IB reviews.Monitor anomalies in deposits, withdrawals, and payment routing; monitor crypto deposits; review anomalies involving source and destination accounts; maintain evidence relating to client money controls; and escalate unresolved discrepancies.Reconciliation Oversight: In accordance with the compliance control framework, conduct second-line reviews of daily reconciliation results produced by Finance/Operations and investigate material discrepancies, including those relating to client money, PSPs, crypto settlements, MT5-to-ledger differences, IB commissions, and LP settlement differences.Compliance Technology: Assist with Sumsub administration, transaction monitoring rule testing, KYT/wallet screening monitoring, compliance system UAT, data quality reviews, and testing of compliance dashboards and audit trails. This is a business requirements/user-side role, not a development role.Regulatory Reporting and Management Information: Assist with compliance dashboards, monthly compliance reports, AML/alert/STR/KYC statistics, IB monitoring and client money exception reports, as well as the preparation of regulatory filing materials.Compliance Testing: Conduct periodic testing of KYC, EDD, sanctions controls, withdrawals, IB onboarding and commissions, crypto deposits, client money controls, marketing, and system controls, following a closed-loop process of “testing → finding → remediation → closure.”QualificationsBachelor’s degree or above, preferably in Finance, Law, or a related discipline.Required Skills3–5 years of compliance/AML experience within financial services, preferably in brokerage, CFD, FX, fintech, payments, or digital assets; hands-on experience in KYC/AML case handling, transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and compliance operations; and a solid understanding of financial transaction flows.Preferred SkillsExperience with the UAE regulatory environment; experience with Seychelles or other offshore brokers; familiarity with MT4/MT5, Sumsub, crypto transaction monitoring, IB/Introducing Broker models, and PSP/payment operations.Preference will be given to candidates who have obtained the two UAE local CISI (Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment) examination qualifications, or who are currently studying toward them and are expected to obtain them in the near term.Additional preference will be given to candidates holding CAMS, ICA, or equivalent AML/compliance qualifications.