Regulatory Compliance Manager

Revolut; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 400,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Revolut in the United Arab Emirates seeks an experienced Regulatory Compliance Manager to safeguard operations and advise on 2LoD compliance. You will provide regulatory input, help shape controls, and ensure customer outcomes meet evolving laws.

You'll work with Legal, Risk, and regional teams to align local and global frameworks, manage regulatory gaps, and implement policies from scratch for a fast-moving fintech landscape.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in compliance risk management.
• Fluency in English and Arabic is required.
• Expertise in payments regulatory requirements and related domains.
• Experience in policy creation and implementation.
• Familiarity with SANADAK regulations and processes.
• Able to analyze regulatory risks and align with business needs.
• Strong analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide clear, well-structured regulatory input and challenge.
• Develop and implement the compliance management system and training.
• Review marketing communications and analyze complaints for compliance.
• Read and interpret large regulations and apply to the business model.
• Coordinate with global/regional compliance managers to align frameworks.
• Identify regulatory issues and track actions to completion.
• Create, assess, and implement policies from scratch.

Skills

Fluency in English and Arabic

Regulatory risk management

Payments regulatory knowledge

Policy creation & implementation

Analytical and communication skills

Tools

SANADAK

Job description

About Revolut

People deserve more from their money. More visibility, more control, and more freedom. Since 2015, Revolut has been on a mission to deliver just that. Our powerhouse of products — including spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more — help our 80+ million customers get more from their money every day.

About Revolut

People deserve more from their money. More visibility, more control, and more freedom. Since 2015, Revolut has been on a mission to deliver just that. Our powerhouse of products — including spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more — help our 80+ million customers get more from their money every day.

As we continue our lightning-fast growth, 2 things are essential to our success: our people and our culture. In recognition of our outstanding employee experience, we've been certified as a Great Place to Work™. So far, we have 13,000+ people working around the world, from our offices and remotely, to help us achieve our mission. And we're looking for more brilliant people. People who love building great products, redefining success, and turning the complexity of a chaotic world into the simplicity of a beautiful solution.

About The Role

Our Compliance team blends regulatory expertise with data-driven thinking to make sure our products meet legal and policy requirements and deliver real value to customers. In a fast-moving, digital environment, they stay one step ahead by finding smart, scalable ways to manage conduct risk.

We’re looking for an experienced Regulatory Compliance Manager to safeguard our operations and ensure compliance in a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape. You'll provide 2LoD compliance advisory oversight to ensure we meet our regulatory requirements and deliver good customer outcomes.

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What You'll Be Doing

• Supporting effective challenge, and providing clear, well-structured compliance input
• Developing and implementing our compliance management system, particularly to ensure compliant customer outcomes, and manage the training programme
• Reviewing marketing communications and analysing complaints to maintain compliance standard
• Reading large pieces of regulation and breaking down what's needed to be done and how it applies to the business model
• Working closely with global Regulatory Compliance Managers to ensure that local risk management frameworks and processes are aligned with global ones and deliver the intended outcomePerforming regulatory issue identification and tracking actions to completion
• Liaising with key stakeholders as required, both internal (Legal, Risk, BSA/AML Officer, etc.) and external (regulators, advisors, vendors, partners, etc.)
• Creating, assessing, and implementing policies from scratch

What You'll Need

• Fluency in English and Arabic
• 5+ years of experience in compliance risk management within a consultancy, compliance function, bank, or regulator
• Expertise in regulatory requirements relating to payments, and a willingness and passion to develop knowledge and expertise in the other areas (e.g., crypto and privacy)
• Knowledge of how to conduct regulatory gap analysis
• A background in policy creation and implementation
• Familiarity with payments, prepaid cards, and/or deposits
• Experience with SANADAK
• An understanding of the interplay between compliance risk and business risk
• Exceptional analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills

Nice to have

• Familiarity with CBUAE or DFSA regulations

Building a global financial super app isn’t enough. Our Revoluters are a priority, and that’s why in 2021 we launched our inaugural D&I Framework, designed to help us thrive and grow everyday. We're not just doing this because it's the right thing to do. We’re doing it because we know that seeking out diverse talent and creating an inclusive workplace is the way to create exceptional, innovative products and services for our customers. That’s why we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join this multicultural, hard-working team.