Compliance Analyst

Eden Rose; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Eden Rose in Dubai DIFC is seeking a Compliance Analyst to join its compliance team. This role reports to the Compliance Officer and MLRO, ensuring the firm stays up to date with regulatory requirements and maintains robust compliance policies and procedures.

You will stay current with regulations, contribute to policy updates, and support CDD/KYC processes, risk assessments, and internal controls improvement. ACAMS/ICA certifications are a plus and strong English communication is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; law degree preferred.
• 2+ years of UAE compliance experience in a financial institution.
• Experience with KYC/ AML investigations is desired.
• ACAMS/ACFCS/ICA or equivalent certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Keep up to date with regulations and horizon scanning.
• Collaborate with internal teams to implement robust compliance policies.
• Maintain CDD profiles for completeness and verification.
• Monitor and improve the controls framework per local policies.
• Support financial crime compliance & related risk assessments.
• Monitor economic sanctions guidance and ensure compliance.
• Support the Legal team on related projects.

Skills

KYC AML investigations

Regulatory awareness

English fluency

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Law degree preferred

Job description

Eden Rose is currently engaged with a financial institution based in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) who are seeking a Compliance Analyst to join their compliance team.

Reporting to the Compliance Officer and MLRO, the Compliance Analyst ensures that the firm stays up to date with regulatory requirements, implements necessary changes, and maintains robust compliance policies and procedures.

Key Responsibilities:

• Keep up to date with relevant regulations, horizon scanning and impact assessments, including circulars/recommendations from the Regulatory bodies and continuously ensure that the company’s policies and procedures adhere to these.
• Collaborate with internal teams to develop and implement robust compliance policies and procedures.
• Responsible for maintaining CDD profiles for completeness and verification to determine plausibility based on the information provided or any inconsistency detected.
• Ongoing monitoring and improvement of the operational systems and controls framework based on the local policies.
• Supporting with Financial Crime Compliance & Compliance related risk assessments
• Monitoring of circulars and press releases to ensure compliance with applicable economic sanctions regimes.
• Assist with Legal team support and projects as required.

The Compliance Analyst will hold a Bachelor’s degree, a degree in Law would be preferred, and you will have a minimum of 2 years’ experience in a Compliance support function within the UAE, ideally within a financial institution. You will have experience in a KYC/ AML Investigations role and pursuing or holding ACAMS, ACFCS, ICA or equivalent Certification would be an asset. You will be fluent in English language and have excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.