Senior Manager - Compliance

Majid Al Futtaim; Dubai; On-site; AED 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Majid Al Futtaim in Dubai offers a Senior Manager - Compliance position aimed at fostering a mature compliance culture across the organization. This role requires extensive experience in compliance, corporate investigations, and governance.

The successful candidate will support compliance strategy and lead a small team, ensuring effective mentorship and development of junior professionals. Ideal for a candidate with strong experience in the MENA region, offering a salary range of 45,000 to 65,000.

Qualifications

• 12 years of experience in corporate investigations, compliance, business ethics, governance, or regulatory risk management.
• Strong experience within the Middle East and North Africa region is preferred.
• Professional certification in compliance management or business ethics is valuable.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the setup and improvement of a compliance framework.
• Support in embedding business ethics and risk-aware decision-making.
• Provide strategic compliance advice on emerging regulatory risks.

Skills

Compliance management

Corporate investigations

Business ethics

Governance

Regulatory compliance

Risk Management-Compliance

Fraud investigation

Internal misconduct review

Education

Bachelors or Masters degree in Accounting, Law, Business, Finance, or a related discipline

Tools

MS Word

PowerPoint

Job description

Overview

Senior Manager - Compliance in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is a senior Retail opportunity for an experienced compliance, corporate investigations, ethics, and governance professional who can support the development of a mature compliance culture across a large holding organization. This role is designed for a subject matter expert in business ethics, regulatory compliance, internal investigations, training, reporting, and risk-based advisory support across multiple business units.

Role Details

Country: United Arab Emirates
City: Dubai
Industry: Retail
Function: Risk Management-Compliance
Salary: 45000-65000 (Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; final offer to be confirmed with the employer).

Role Context

The Senior Manager - Compliance supports the VP Compliance in strengthening the organization\'s compliance framework, investigations oversight, ethics governance, and regulatory readiness. The role has a direct business impact by helping leadership identify compliance risks early, improving monitoring practices, responding to emerging regulatory matters, and building a clear culture of accountability. It also plays a people leadership role by guiding compliance and investigations professionals while developing junior talent through structured feedback, exposure to complex matters, and practical learning opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the setup, maintenance, and continuous improvement of a robust compliance framework aligned with regulatory requirements, internal policies, and governance expectations.
• Support the VP Compliance in embedding business ethics, integrity standards, and risk-aware decision-making across the organization.
• Work closely with investigations teams to review investigation volumes, trends, findings, and recurring risk themes.
• Identify corrective measures that improve compliance monitoring, employee awareness, internal controls, and training effectiveness.
• Provide strategic compliance advice to senior management on emerging regulatory risks, ethics concerns, internal misconduct risks, sanctions-related matters, and governance requirements.
• Oversee compliance training, awareness campaigns, and reporting activities across business units to ensure consistent understanding of policies and expected conduct.
• Collaborate with Legal, HR, Risk, Security, Internal Audit, and business leadership teams to maintain a coordinated approach to investigations, governance, and ethics.
• Prepare clear compliance reports, dashboards, executive summaries, MS Word documents, and PowerPoint materials for regulators, auditors, executive committees, and senior stakeholders.
• Support internal and external investigation matters involving misconduct, regulatory reviews, sanctions, human rights concerns, policy breaches, or ethics-related allegations.
• Lead a small team of compliance and investigations professionals, setting priorities, reviewing work quality, and ensuring timely delivery.
• Coach junior team members through structured management, regular feedback, practical guidance, and exposure to complex compliance assignments.
• Monitor compliance performance indicators and recommend improvements to strengthen transparency, accountability, and risk mitigation.
• Help build a mature compliance culture that supports responsible business conduct across a diverse regional operating environment.

Ideal Profile / Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Accounting, Law, Business, Finance, or a related discipline.
• Law qualification or demonstrated equivalent professional experience is preferred.
• 12 years of experience in corporate investigations, compliance, business ethics, governance, or regulatory risk management.
• Strong experience within the Middle East and North Africa region is preferred.
• Professional certification in compliance management, business ethics, forensic investigations, or fraud examination is highly valuable.
• Certified Fraud Examiner certification or similar investigation-related credential is preferred.
• Practical experience handling internal misconduct investigations, external regulator-led investigations, sanctions matters, human rights-related concerns, and complex ethics cases.
• Strong ability to advise senior stakeholders on compliance risks, investigation outcomes, governance gaps, and corrective actions.
• Experience designing or delivering compliance training for senior leaders, compliance teams, investigations teams, and wider business audiences.
• Strong reporting capability with confidence preparing executive-level dashboards, written reports, committee materials, and regulator-facing documentation.
• Proven people management experience with the ability to lead, mentor, and develop compliance professionals.
• High level of confidentiality, professional integrity, independence, and sound ethical judgment.
• Ability to work across Legal, HR, Risk, Security, and business functions in a fast-moving corporate environment.

Skills Set

• Compliance management
• Corporate investigations
• Business ethics
• Governance
• Regulatory compliance
• Risk Management-Compliance
• Fraud investigation
• Internal misconduct review
• Sanctions compliance
• Human rights investigations
• Corrective action planning
• Compliance monitoring
• Compliance training
• Awareness programs
• Executive reporting
• Regulatory reporting
• Audit documentation
• Policy compliance
• Investigation trend analysis
• Compliance dashboards
• MS Word reporting
• PowerPoint presentations
• Stakeholder advisory
• Senior management communication
• Team leadership
• Talent development
• Legal coordination
• HR coordination
• Risk coordination
• Security coordination
• Certified Fraud Examiner
• Compliance certification
• Forensic investigations