About the Role / About the Job
At the company, we believe your money should answer to you. We are a banking and investment platform built around a simple idea: more people should have access to the financial system, regardless of where they live. We operate across emerging markets, particularly focusing on the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. As part of our team, you will play a crucial role in ensuring compliance and managing fraud risks within our products and markets.
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What You'll Do
- Run and maintain the compliance risk assessment and risk register across the company's products and markets.
- Monitor transactions and account activity for fraud, investigate alerts, and escalate cases where needed.
- Design, test, and tune fraud rules and detection scenarios in collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Data teams.
- Identify and analyse fraud trends such as account takeover, card fraud, promotion and referral abuse, and mule accounts, and recommend controls to address them.
- Carry out control testing, document findings, and track remediation actions to closure.
- Assess compliance and fraud risk for new products, features, and partners before launch.
- Maintain fraud case records, incident logs, and evidence of control effectiveness.
- Prepare regular risk and fraud management information (MI) for the Head of Compliance.
- Support internal audits and regulatory reviews with documentation and evidence.
- Work with Customer Support on fraud-related customer cases and chargebacks.
- Recommend improvements to risk and fraud systems, processes, and tooling.
What You'll Bring
Must Have
- 3–5 years' experience in fraud, compliance risk, financial crime, or risk operations at a fintech, bank, payments company, or virtual asset service provider (VASP).
- Hands-on experience with fraud detection or transaction monitoring tools (e.g., Sumsub, Unit21, Sardine, Feedzai, or similar).
- Experience with risk assessments, control testing, and risk frameworks.
- Strong analytical skills, with confidence working with data (SQL or advanced Excel).
- The ability to turn findings into clear, practical recommendations for technical and non-technical teams.
- The ability to work independently in a fast-paced, global organisation across multiple time zones.
- A proactive, detail-oriented team player.
Nice to Have
- Virtual assets or crypto fraud experience, including blockchain analytics tools such as Chainalysis or Elliptic.
- Card fraud or chargeback experience.
- A relevant certification (CFE, ICA, or similar).
- Knowledge of UAE regulatory requirements (CBUAE or VARA).
Not a 100% match? We'd still love to hear from you. We hire for potential and HEART, not a checklist, so apply if the mission excites you.
What We Offer
Ownership from day one in a high-trust, high-ownership culture where you have the autonomy to act like an owner and the support to continually raise the bar.
- Competitive package, benchmarked across our markets and reviewed as you grow.
- A clear path forward through
