Head of MENA Risk & Regulatory Strategy

Capital.com; Dubai; On-site; AED 500,000 - 750,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Work-Life Harmony

Generous Time Off

Employee Referral Program

Comprehensive Health Benefits

Workation / Remote Work days

Volunteer Days

Job summary

Capital.com is expanding its leadership in the MENA region and seeks a seasoned risk leader to build the second-line functions from the ground up. You will design governance, risk appetite, and KRIs aligned with regulatory demands while managing regulatory relationships across the Gulf.

This role requires influencing senior leadership and ensuring controls across markets, tech, and operations. You will report to the Risk Management leadership and collaborate with global teams to establish

Qualifications

• 8 years in risk management within regulated financial services.
• Direct experience with CMA CBUAE or comparable Gulf regulatory frameworks preferred.
• Background in trading, payments, or multi-product financial services environments is an advantage.
• Professional risk qualification (FRM PRM or CFA) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build the Enterprise Risk Management Framework for the MENA business including risk appetite statements, KRIs, governance policies and committee structures.
• Lead regulatory relationships across MENA ensuring risk function contributes to supervisory expectations, licensing milestones, regulatory submissions and inspections.
• Oversee market, operational and technology risk providing independent second-line challenges on exposure management, controls and resilience.
• Design liquidity and financial risk oversight mechanisms including stress testing and scenario analysis.
• Own third-party risk governance with due diligence and ongoing monitoring for tech partners, payment providers, and outsourcing.
• Challenge first-line decisions on new products and material business changes to ensure proper risk sign-off.
• Deliver decision-ready risk reporting to senior leadership and the board including breaches and remediation progress.
• Coordinate with global risk teams to maintain group-wide standards while building a regionally independent function.

Skills

Governance design

Regulatory engagement

Risk appetite frameworks

Professional risk qualification

Job description

Capital.com is expanding its leadership in the MENA region and seeks a seasoned risk leader to build the second-line functions from the ground up. You will design governance, risk appetite, and KRIs aligned with regulatory demands while managing regulatory relationships across the Gulf.

This role requires influencing senior leadership and ensuring controls across markets, tech, and operations. You will report to the Risk Management leadership and collaborate with global teams to establish