Senior Risk Strategy Manager ME

Summary

• Design end-to-end risk control frameworks for new products, markets, and client segments — onboarding, inbound and outbound transaction monitoring, limits, and review triggers.
• Translate local regulatory requirements and market practice into proportionate controls
• Produce clear, audit-ready documentation — control frameworks, risk assessments, verification frameworks, and policy.
• Partner with commercial, compliance, operations, and HQ to land solutions and clear blockers.
• Localise HQ frameworks to ME market reality and own solutioning across live and new markets.

Core requirement

• 7+ years in risk, compliance, or financial crime at a payments, fintech, or banking institution; cross-border experience strongly preferred
• Deep working knowledge of local market practice, documentation norms, and financial crime typologies in the region
• Strong risk solutioning — able to design proportionate controls, not only flag risk
• Excellent written documentation in clear English — frameworks, policy, and risk assessments
• Comfortable operating across commercial and compliance functions; pragmatic and business-enabling
• Compliance or financial crime background welcome