Accountabilities and Key Roles:

• Ensuring compliance with applicable law, rules, regulations, and guidelines.
• Advocating and facilitating the development, implementation, communication and maintenance of compliance across country or line of business operations, working closely with country or line of business functional heads.
• Assisting in developing a country or line of business specific compliance strategy to ensure ongoing compliance, consistent with application laws and regulation.
• Assisting in developing country or line of business specific procedures, in alignment with Head Office policies and guidelines.
• Assisting in developing compliance key risk indicators and other reports.
• Maintaining current understanding of Country Risks including regulatory requirements, Bank products , services, and customer types.
• Assisting in monitoring and assessing Compliance program effectiveness at a country or line of business level.
• Ensuring continuous enhancement of awareness and knowledge of compliance guidelines and requirements through preparation and dissemination of compliance communications and education.
• Identifying opportunities for improvement, establish action plans, and lead initiatives to further strengthen the country or line of business compliance program.
• Assisting in reviewing new products and services to ensure that all regulatory rules and guidelines are reflected in the policies and procedures.
• Adherence to all information Security policies and standards to protect the Bank’s employees, assets , resources and data from illegal or damaging actions by individuals, either knowingly or unknowingly.
• Monitoring day-to-day operations and compliance with the AML/CFT Law, these Instructions, and the financial institution’s policies, procedures, systems and controls; regularly assess and review (at least once a year or when necessary) their effectiveness in relation to preventing ML/TF.
• Assisting in the implementation of the financial institution’s AML/CFT policies, procedures, systems and controls, including the risk-based approach to ML/TF risks.

Job Requirements:

Education:

• University degree from a recognized university

Experience:

• Minimum of 2-3 years of Compliance experience with a leading Regional/ International institution.

Competencies:

• Fluent in English and Arabic
• Strong analytical skills .
• Good presentation, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Good understanding of Compliance practices and local regulations