Junior Legal Ops Compliance

finera.; Dubai; Hybrid; AED 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary package aligned with experience

Medical Insurance from day 1

Training resources and development

Well-stocked Dubai office

Multinational culture

Team-building events

Employee Recognition Program

Job summary

Finera in Dubai is seeking a hybrid compliance and project management professional focused on KYB/KYC processes for onboarding merchants. You will report to senior legal management and collaborate with Risk, Solution, and CISO teams to ensure fast, consistent, audit-ready checks.

The role suits someone with payments, fintech, or iGaming background, highly organized and detail-driven, eager to grow into broader legal and compliance career.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of compliance, KYC/KYB, merchant onboarding, legal or project management within PSPs, acquirers, fintech or iGaming.

Responsibilities

• Merchant onboarding KYB monitoring and verification.
• License obligations and regulatory checks support.
• PSA/PSP obligations tracking across agreements.
• Third-party KYB provider management and SLA oversight.
• Ongoing merchant monitoring and risk-based reviews.
• Drafting and updating KYB procedures and risk criteria.
• Regular reporting to CLO and improving processes with automation.

Skills

KYC/KYB experience

AML/CFT knowledge

Vendor management

English communication

Compliance tooling

Education

Law/business/finance degree

Tools

Compliance screening tools

CRM/Workflow systems

AI tools in daily work

Job description

Job Description:

Finera is a payment orchestration platform serving merchants through a global network of acquiring banks and PSPs. Every merchant we onboard must first clear Know Your Business (KYB) checks, and getting that process right is essential to our relationships with acquirers, card schemes and regulators.

This is a hybrid quasi-legal, compliance and project management role. Reporting directly to senior legal management and working closely with Risk, Solution, CISO teams, you will support Finera's different KYB processes day to day and oversight the checks on our merchants, making sure onboarding is fast, consistent and audit-ready. The role suits someone from a payments, fintech or iGaming background who is highly organized, detail-driven and keen to grow into a broader legal and compliance career.

• 1 to 3 years' experience in compliance, KYC/KYB, merchant onboarding, legal or project management within a PSP, acquirer, payment orchestrator, fintech or iGaming business (including iGaming compliance).


• Degree in law, business, finance or a related field.


• Working understanding of KYB/KYC and AML/CFT principles, including UBO identification, sanctions and PEP screening.


• Experience working with, or managing, third-party vendors or outsourced service providers.


• Highly organized and detail-driven, able to manage multiple cases and deadlines at the same time.


• Clear written and verbal communication in English, with the confidence to deal with merchants, providers and internal teams.


• Comfortable using compliance screening tools, CRM or workflow systems, and AI tools in daily work.

Nice-to-House

• A recognized compliance or AML certification (for example, ICA or CAMS).


• Familiarity with UAE and EU AML/CFT requirements.


• Knowledge of card scheme rules on merchant onboarding.


• Experience reviewing iGaming operator licences and the conditions attached to them


• Project management experience or certification.

• Merchant onboarding. Monitor and support KYB process for merchant onboarding: collecting and verifying corporate documents, reviewing business models and websites, and taking files through to approval, conditional approval or decline. Verify merchant ownership and control structures across jurisdictions, directors and authorised signatories, and confirm their identity documents are complete and current.


• License obligations. Support Finera's own license obligations, including record-keeping and regulatory checks.


• PSA and PSP obligations. Map and track the KYB, onboarding and monitoring requirements in Finera's payment services agreements (PSAs) and its PSP and acquirer agreements and make sure every merchant file meets them before submission and on an ongoing basis.


• Third-party KYB provider management. Act as the day-to-day point of contact for our outsourced KYB provider: monitor its performance against agreed SLAs, quality-check its output, resolve issues and escalated where needed.


• Ongoing monitoring. Carry out periodic merchant reviews based on risk tier, re-screen merchants when their ownership, licences, business model or target markets change, and recommend restrictions or offboarding where risks cannot be adequately mitigated.


• Policies and procedures. Help draft, maintain and update KYB procedures, checklists and merchant risk-classification criteria in line with regulatory, acquirer, PSP and card scheme requirements.


• Reporting and process improvement. Keep complete, audit-ready KYB records; report regularly to the CLO on onboarding volumes, turnaround times, pending cases, escalations and provider performance; and use automation, AI tools and workflow systems to make the process faster and more consistent.


• Legal support. Support the Legal team on ad hoc matters, such as internal policies verifications and simple agreements and maintaining the contract database.

• Competitive salary package aligned with experience and market standards.


• Medical Insurance starting from day 1.


• Access to training resources and development opportunities that support your professional growth.


• Well-stocked office with snacks, drinks, and refreshments available daily.


• A multinational organisation that promotes a strong, collaborative culture


• Regular team-building events and company activities that strengthen collaboration across teams.


• Employee Recognition Program celebrating our \"Employee of the Month\" with special perks.