About the Role:
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Embark on a journey where your unique contributions are celebrated, and your professional growth is embraced. We nurture a diverse, inclusive community where every voice is valued. In the role of Advisor - Regulatory Compliance, you will take on critical responsibilities within the compliance function, ensuring the organization complies with applicable laws, regulations, rules, and market standards, while actively managing and monitoring risk.
About the Business Area, Group Compliance & Governance:
Compliance is an independent function that takes an active approach to risk management and monitoring. The Group creates, implements, and monitors policies and procedures designed to prevent or detect financial crime and any compliance breaches of the organization, its employees, and clients. It also assesses the impact of conduct risk and compliance on the organization’s risk appetite and profile.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide expert interpretation of applicable regulatory requirements impacting Tech Fortress, translating regulatory obligations into clear, actionable program requirements and design principles. Advise stakeholders on compliance expectations and emerging regulatory developments to ensure alignment throughout program delivery.
- Conduct comprehensive regulatory impact assessments for proposed solutions, technology migrations, architecture changes, and operating model transformations. Identify compliance gaps, assess associated risks, and define required controls, remediation actions, and implementation requirements.
- Manage regulatory and compliance inputs across program workstreams, maintaining end-to-end traceability between obligations, requirements, decisions, and controls. Ensure compliance evidence, approvals, and supporting documentation are complete, accurate, auditable, and readily retrievable for internal and external reviews.
- Proactively monitor regulatory risks, compliance issues, and remediation actions across the program.
- Challenge unsupported risk acceptances or issue closures, ensure timely resolution of material compliance concerns, and escalate significant risks through established governance and executive oversight forums where required.
- Adhere to all relevant organizational and departmental policies, processes, standard operating procedures, and instructions so that work is carried out to the required standard and in a consistent manner while delivering the required standard of service to customers and stakeholders.
Ideal Candidate Experience:
- At least 6 years of experience in banking, financial services, compliance, data, cybersecurity, or technology transformation.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline such as Business, Finance, Accounting, Risk Management, Law, Computer Science, Information Security, Data Management, or equivalent.
- Relevant professional certification is preferred, aligned to the role domain, such as ACA/ACCA/CIMA/CFA, FRM, CISA/CISM/CRISC/CISSP, CDPSE, data governance/quality, privacy, project management or testing certification.
- Experience with banking technology transformation and program governance, risk-based analysis, structured problem solving, stakeholder management, and executive communication.
- Familiarity with requirements, controls, evidence and issue traceability, and UAE banking regulatory awareness and obligation mapping.
What We Offer:
- Competitive Salary & Eligibility for participation in variable pay plans.
- Comprehensive Benefits Package including market-leading medical insurance, group life and personal accident insurance, paid leave and leave airfare, employee preferential rates on loans and finance facilities, staff discounts, and children education assistance (for certain job levels).
- Flexible and Remote Working Options to support work-life balance.
- Learning and Development Opportunities through structured instructor-led courses, an extensive e-learning catalog, on-the-job training, and professional development programs.
We are dedicated to creating a respectful, caring, and disciplined work environment that aligns with your career ambitions.
