Compliance Officer
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Compliance Officer conducting second-line KYC and name-screening reviews for Mashreq’s Egypt-based banking operations. Identifying compliance risks, supporting regulatory alignment, and advising internal stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct comprehensive 2nd line review of high-risk KYC referrals
- Provide 2nd line dispositioning of name-screening referrals for low- and medium-risk accounts that cannot be discounted by the first line of defense
- Identify, assess, and help mitigate regulatory, financial crime, reputational, and other compliance risks
- Support business units with innovative, compliant, and workable solutions aligned with regulatory requirements
- Escalate material unmitigated risks to Compliance Management
- Handle assigned cases within approved timelines and align activities with bank compliance policies, standards, procedures, and regulatory updates
- Maintain awareness of Central Bank of the UAE regulations applicable to CIBG business and interpret them for relevant stakeholders
- Support root-cause problem solving and implement agreed actions to improve team efficiency
- Update MIS on assigned workload and cases
- Participate in compliance training programs for internal stakeholders
- Identify material compliance risks and prepare Risk Acceptance Notes when senior management involvement is required
- Assist with updating internal procedures and cascading regulatory and policy updates to stakeholders
- Respond to queries from CBUAE, internal audit, and external consultants
- Represent CIBG Compliance in assigned projects and working groups
- Develop proactive professional relationships with internal business and operations stakeholders
- Make independent informed decisions on assigned high-risk referrals
- Provide administrative and office support linked to assigned MIS
Requirements:
- Graduate with 3-5 years of corporate compliance experience in reputable banks
- Basic knowledge and understanding of local regulatory rules and legislation, and various international requirements and practices in Corporate and Investment Banking businesses
- Computer literate
- Excellent command over spoken and written English
- Good presentation skills
- Efficient and logical approach to problem solving
- Good decision making ability
















