Financial Crime Advisory

WHAT YOU WOULD ACTUALLY BE DOING• Building relationships with bank compliance leaders (CCOs, MLROs) and winning new advisory mandates.• Leading gap assessments, checking a bank's AML set-up against SAMA and CBUAE regulatory requirements.• Validating transaction monitoring systems, ensuring the software correctly flags suspicious activity withoutoverwhelming staff with false alerts.• Leading KYC and customer due diligence remediation projects.• Leading Skilled Persons Reviews or monitorships, where a regulator requires an independent expert review of a bank'scompliance function.• Advising on selection and implementation of AML systems (e.g. Actimize, SAS AML, Oracle FCCM).• Coaching and developing a team of Managers and Assistant Managers under you.WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING• 12+ years' overall experience, with 10+ years specifically in financial crime consulting (not solely in-house bankcompliance).• 5+ years of proven business development experience, personally selling this type of advisory work, not just deliveringit.• Hands-on experience with at least one full AML system selection and one implementation.• Experience building a tech-enabled financial crime solution or tool and taking it to market.• Big 4 or major consulting firm background strongly preferred.• Arabic language proficiency is a plus, not mandatory.