Senior Compliance Analyst

Deriv; Dubai; On-site; AED 250,000 - 450,000; Full time

Job summary

Deriv is seeking a Senior Compliance Analyst to safeguard the business and clients by embedding a strong culture of compliance across operations. You will drive regulatory-aligned processes, leverage AI-enhanced tools, and contribute to continuous improvements across the organisation.

You’ll investigate, review, and report on compliance issues, liaise with product teams, and ensure due diligence and sanctions screening meet regulatory standards in a dynamic fintech environment.

Qualifications

• University degree in finance, economics, law, risk management, criminology, business studies, data science, management, or a related field.
• 5+ years of compliance experience in financial services, fintech, investment services, or another regulated environment.
• Strong knowledge of regulatory requirements and industry standards, with experience in customer due diligence, transaction reviews, and sanctions screening.

Responsibilities

• Investigate flagged client accounts by analysing transactions and account activity to identify compliance concerns.
• Carry out comprehensive customer reviews and due diligence checks, and assess adherence to internal policy and regulatory requirements.
• Assess high-value deposit and withdrawal requests by reviewing transaction histories and applying internal review procedures through AI-powered tools.
• Screen clients against PEP lists, global sanctions databases, and adverse media, and decide when a hit is noise versus signal.
• Prepare compliance reports that stand up to scrutiny, and support regulatory filings where required.
• Explain compliance requirements to operational and product teams and suggest process improvements.
• Identify weaknesses in compliance processes and help fix them, not just flag them.
• Provide clear, defensible answers on complex compliance questions when the team is unsure.

Skills

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Regulatory knowledge

Communication

Education

University degree in finance, economics, law, risk management, criminology, business studies, data science, management, or related field

Tools

Excel

Job description

As a Senior Compliance Analyst at Deriv, you'll safeguard our business and clients by driving a strong culture of compliance across our operations. Your analytical expertise ensures internal processes meet regulatory and policy requirements, while reinforcing the integrity of our business practices. Using advanced, AI-enhanced tools, you'll strengthen our ability to assess issues, support effective decision‑making, and contribute to lasting improvements across the organisation.

Why This Matters

Deriv's mission is Trading for Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime. Real money, real regulations, real consequences. Every jurisdiction has different rules, every trade needs monitoring, and manual review doesn't scale to the volume we run at. We're building continuous monitoring, automated screening, and audit trails that hold up to regulatory scrutiny—because they're more consistent than checking things by hand. You'll work inside those systems, using AI-enhanced tooling to assess issues faster and go deeper than a spreadsheet ever could.

Where You'll Contribute

• Account & Transaction Investigation — Analysing flagged accounts and transaction activity to identify compliance concerns
• Customer Due Diligence — Running comprehensive customer reviews against internal policy and regulatory requirements
• High-Value Transaction Review — Assessing large deposits and withdrawals through AI-powered review procedures
• Screening & Reporting — PEP, sanctions, and adverse media screening, plus internal reporting and regulatory filing support

What You'll Do

• Investigate flagged client accounts by analysing transactions and account activity to identify compliance concerns others might miss.
• Carry out comprehensive customer reviews and due diligence checks, and make the call on adherence to internal policy and regulatory requirements.
• Assess high‑value deposit and withdrawal requests by reviewing transaction histories and applying internal review procedures through AI-powered tools.
• Screen clients against PEP lists, global sanctions databases, and adverse media—and decide when a hit is noise versus signal.
• Prepare compliance reports that stand up to scrutiny, and support regulatory filings where required.
• Work directly with operational and product teams to explain what compliance actually requires and where their process needs to change.
• Spot where a compliance process is weaker than it should be, and help fix it—not just flag it.
• Give a clear, defensible answer on complex compliance questions when the rest of the team isn't sure.

Who You Are

You've done this at regulated scale. A university degree in finance, economics, law, risk management, criminology, business studies, data science, management, or a related field, plus 5+ years of compliance experience in financial services, fintech, investment services, or another regulated environment.

You know what "compliant" actually requires. Strong knowledge of regulatory requirements and industry standards, with real experience in customer due diligence, transaction reviews, and sanctions screening—not just training on them.

You find the pattern in the noise. Strong analytical skills for spotting anomalies in transaction data, comfortable in Excel and with complex datasets.

You write and speak with precision. Clear English, meticulous attention to detail, and the judgment to make sound calls on limited information without cutting corners on compliance standards.

You act with integrity when no one's checking. Reliable, self‑motivated, and adaptable when priorities shift—and genuinely interested in what AI tools can do for compliance work, not just tolerant of them.

You can hold a hard conversation. The confidence and professionalism to push back on operational or product teams when their plan doesn't meet the standard.

The Honest Reality

You'll own calls where getting it wrong means regulatory exposure, not just an unhappy customer. You'll balance thoroughness against operational speed, and you'll need to defend a judgment call to people—internal teams, auditors, sometimes regulators—who weren't in the room when you made it.

But you'll build compliance that actually works at scale: consistent, defensible, and backed by tools that catch what manual review misses. You'll be the person other teams come to when a compliance question doesn't have an obvious answer.

If you want a checklist role, this isn't it. If you want ownership over real risk decisions, it might be.