Financial Crime Compliance PMO Manager

Capitex; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial services firm in Dubai is seeking an experienced FCC PMO Manager / Senior Manager to lead the delivery of Financial Crime Compliance projects. The role involves overseeing governance, project planning, and stakeholder coordination. Ideal candidates will have strong experience in banking compliance, excellent stakeholder management skills, and a proven track record with regulatory frameworks. This opportunity offers a competitive contract duration of 6 months, catering to skilled professionals looking to make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• Strong experience managing complex FCC or regulatory change programmes within banking.
• Solid understanding of AML/CFT, FCC frameworks, and regulatory remediation.
• Experience with regulators and supporting audits.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end delivery of FCC projects and supervisory actions.
• Establish and maintain PMO governance frameworks for FCC initiatives.
• Monitor progress against milestones, budgets, and proactively identify risks.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Experience with regulators

Job description

Job Title: FCC PMO Manager / Senior Manager

Location: Dubai
Contract Duration: 6 months
Level: Manager to Senior Manager
Openings: 1 position

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced FCC PMO Manager / Senior Manager to lead and oversee the delivery of Financial Crime Compliance (FCC) projects, regulatory remediation programmes, and supervisory actions. The role will play a critical part in ensuring delivery against regulatory commitments while maintaining strong governance, transparency, and stakeholder alignment.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end delivery of FCC projects, programmes, supervisory actions, and management commitments.
• Establish and maintain robust PMO governance frameworks for FCC initiatives, including project plans, milestones, dependencies, and risk registers.
• Ensure adherence to the Bank’s project management standards and regulatory change governance requirements.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, RAID logs, and delivery dashboards across multiple FCC workstreams.
• Monitor progress against milestones, budgets, and resource plans; proactively identify and mitigate delivery risks and delays.
• Produce clear and concise senior management, steering committee, and regulatory reporting, including status updates, key issues, and delivery risks.
• Track and evidence closure of regulatory findings, management actions, and remediation items required for CBUAE validation.
• Coordinate the preparation of regulatory responses, progress updates, remediation evidence packs, and attestations.
• Act as the central coordination point between Compliance, FCC, IT, Operations, Risk, Internal Audit, and Business teams.
• Manage interdependencies across multiple workstreams, including policy, process, technology, data, and people.
• Support the management of external vendors and consultants delivering FCC initiatives.
• Manage scope changes, prioritisation decisions, and delivery trade-offs in line with regulatory deadlines and the Bank’s risk appetite.
• Ensure all project deliverables meet defined quality standards and are suitable for regulatory scrutiny.
• Support internal quality assurance, independent testing, and audit reviews of FCC programmes.
• Maintain comprehensive project documentation, audit trails, and evidence repositories.
• Support FCC steering committees, regulatory forums, and senior management meetings, including agenda preparation and action tracking.

Required Knowledge & Skills

• Strong experience managing complex FCC or regulatory change programmes within a banking or regulated environment.
• Solid understanding of AML/CFT, FCC frameworks, and regulatory remediation expectations.
• Experience working with regulators and supporting supervisory actions and audits.
• Excellent stakeholder management, organisation, and communication skills.