Senior Risk Strategy & Controls Lead – Fintech & Payments

PingPong Payments; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

PingPong Payments seeks an experienced Senior Risk & Compliance professional to lead end-to-end risk controls across ME markets, focusing on onboarding, transaction monitoring, and policy governance. You will translate local regulation into proportionate controls and partner with commercial, compliance, and HQ to unblock solutions.

With 7+ years in risk, compliance, or financial crime in payments or banking, you will design effective frameworks and produce audit-ready documentation, while

Qualifications

• 7+ years in risk, compliance, or financial crime in payments, fintech, or banking.
• Deep working knowledge of local market practice and financial crime typologies in the region.
• Strong risk solutioning — able to design proportionate controls, not only flag risk.
• Excellent written documentation in clear English — frameworks, policy, and risk assessments.
• Comfortable operating across commercial and compliance functions; pragmatic and business-enabling.
• Compliance or financial crime background welcome.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end risk control frameworks for new products, markets, and client segments — onboarding, inbound and outbound transaction monitoring, limits, and review triggers.
• Translate local regulatory requirements and market practice into proportionate controls
• Produce clear, audit-ready documentation — control frameworks, risk assessments, verification frameworks, and policy.
• Partner with commercial, compliance, operations, and HQ to land solutions and clear blockers.
• Localise HQ frameworks to ME market reality and own solutioning across live and new markets.

Skills

Risk management

Regulatory compliance

Financial crime

Cross-border experience

Documentation

Job description

PingPong Payments seeks an experienced Senior Risk & Compliance professional to lead end-to-end risk controls across ME markets, focusing on onboarding, transaction monitoring, and policy governance. You will translate local regulation into proportionate controls and partner with commercial, compliance, and HQ to unblock solutions.

With 7+ years in risk, compliance, or financial crime in payments or banking, you will design effective frameworks and produce audit-ready documentation, while